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(Reuters) – Barcelona wished Lionel Messi good luck after the Argentina great expressed his desire to join Major League Soccer’s Inter Miami on Wednesday, despite receiving a “proposal” to return to his former club. Barcelona said in a statement that Messi’s father and agent had informed the club on Monday of his decision to move to America instead of returning to Spain. “Barcelona president (Joan) Laporta understood and respected Messi’s […]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Each player at the Women’s World Cup will be guaranteed at least $30,000 after a ground-breaking move by FIFA to disburse some of the prize money to individuals rather than national federations. All 23 members of the winning team will take home $270,000, part of a $110 million total prize pool that is roughly 300% higher than what FIFA offered for the 2019 tournament. The $30,000 […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The World Bank will support Ukraine by conducting a rapid assessment of damages and needs after the destruction of a huge hydroelectric dam on front lines between Russian and Ukrainian forces, a top bank official said on Wednesday, Anna Bjerde, the World Bank’s managing director for operations, in a tweet said the destruction of the Novo Kakhovka dam had “many very serious consequences for essential service delivery […]

By Shrivathsa Sridhar PARIS (Reuters) -Alexander Zverev returned to the semi-finals of the French Open on Wednesday a year after leaving Roland Garros in a wheelchair, while defending champion Iga Swiatek also maintained her quest for a third title in four years. Zverev had suffered a season-ending ankle injury in his last-four match against eventual champion Rafa Nadal on Court Philippe Chatrier in 2022 and had surgery, but complications later […]

By Lauren Owens Lambert MONHEGAN ISLAND, Maine (Reuters) – An emerging technology to fish for lobsters virtually ropeless to prevent whale entanglements is exciting conservationists, but getting a frigid reception from harvesters worried it will drive them out of business and upend their way of life. Injuries to endangered North Atlantic Right Whales ensnared in fishing gear have fueled a prominent campaign by environmental groups to pressure the industry to […]

By Rory Carroll LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Lionel Messi on Wednesday announced that he intends to join Major League Soccer side Inter Miami as a free agent after parting ways with French champions Paris St Germain and snubbing a lucrative contract offer in Saudi Arabia. Messi, who played his final game for PSG over the weekend, was also linked with a return to Barcelona but the Spanish club have had […]

By Milana Vinn and Greg Roumeliotis (Reuters) – The combination of the PGA Tour and rival LIV circuit is the world’s oddest merger, involving a nonprofit, Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund and a deal contract that has no agreed price. Here is how it will work, according to people familiar with the details. WHAT IS THE DEAL PRICE? The two golf tournament organizers agreed to the merger without pinning down […]

By James Oliphant (Reuters) – Florida Governor Ron DeSantis defended flying planeloads of migrants across the country during a trip to the U.S. southern border on Wednesday, as he looks to make hardline immigration policies a central tenet of his 2024 presidential bid. The Republican candidate’s stop in Arizona came a day after the state of Florida acknowledged it had overseen two chartered flights of migrants from Texas to Sacramento, […]

By Lauren Owens Lambert MONHEGAN ISLAND, Maine (Reuters) -An emerging technology to fish for lobsters virtually ropeless to prevent whale entanglements is exciting conservationists, but getting a frigid reception from harvesters worried it will drive them out of business and upend their way of life. Injuries to endangered North Atlantic Right Whales ensnared in fishing gear have fueled a prominent campaign by environmental groups to pressure the industry to adopt […]