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By Brad Brooks

(Reuters) - A Florida sheriff's office on Friday fired a deputy who had shot and killed a Black airman with the U.S. Air Force, saying the use of deadly force was not reasonable.

That was the conclusion of an internal affairs investigation by the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office into the May 3 killing of Roger Fortson, 23, in Fort Walton Beach, the sheriff's office said in a statement.

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By Idrees Ali

SINGAPORE (Reuters) -U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Saturday tried to refocus attention on China's threat in the Pacific, seeking to alleviate concerns that conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza have distracted from America's security commitments in Asia.

Austin, who was speaking at the annual Shangri-La Dialogue security summit in Singapore, met his Chinese counterpart, Dong Jun, on Friday in a bid to cool friction over issues... (continue reading...)

By Kanishka Singh

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Marian Robinson, mother of former U.S. first lady Michelle Obama, who provided support and stability, especially during the eight years of Barack Obama's presidency, died on Friday, the Obama and Robinson families said. She was 86.

Fondly called the "first grandma," Robinson played a pivotal role in helping care for her granddaughters, Malia and Sasha Obama, during their early years at the White... (continue reading...)

By Zeba Siddiqui

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Live Nation Entertainment said on Friday it was investigating a data breach at its Ticketmaster unit that it discovered on May 20, the latest in a string of high-profile corporate hacks in the past year.

In a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Live Nation said it found "unauthorized activity" in a third-party cloud database that mainly contained Ticketmaster data, and was... (continue reading...)

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's exports rose for an eighth straight month in May, led by robust chip sales though overall growth in shipments lagged market expectations, trade data showed on Saturday.

Overseas sales by Asia's fourth-largest economy rose 11.7% year-on-year to $58.15 billion, a 22-month high, slowing from a gain of 13.8% in the prior month and undershooting a rise of 14.2% tipped in a Reuters survey of economists.

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