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(Reuters) -The PGA Tour, European Tour and Saudi-backed LIV Golf circuit announced a landmark agreement on Tuesday to merge and form a commercial entity to unify golf. Following are the reactions: FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP “GREAT NEWS FROM LIV GOLF. A BIG, BEAUTIFUL, AND GLAMOROUS DEAL FOR THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF GOLF. CONGRATS TO ALL!!!” PGA TOUR COMMISSIONER JAY MONAHAN “I recognise that people are going to call me […]

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday asked a federal court to issue a temporary restraining order to freeze the U.S. assets of cryptocurrency exchange Binance. The motion, in a filing to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, comes a day after U.S. regulators sued Binance and its CEO Changpeng Zhao for allegedly operating a “web of deception,” piling further pressure […]

By Frank Pingue (Reuters) – The world of golf was left stunned on Tuesday as the PGA Tour, DP World Tour and rival Saudi-backed LIV circuit, who have been involved in a bitter fight that has split the sport, announced a shock agreement to merge and form one unified commercial entity. Additionally, the organizations said in a joint news release they will work together to allow a process for LIV […]

By Valerie Insinna and David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Boeing said on Tuesday it could be forced to slow deliveries of its 787 Dreamliner after the company discovered a new production flaw that will require it to inspect all 90 jets in its inventory, the latest in a series of setbacks for the widebody plane. While the newly-found production hiccup does not pose a flight safety concern, it follows an month-long […]

By Frank Pingue (Reuters) -The world of golf was left stunned on Tuesday as the PGA Tour, DP World Tour and rival Saudi-backed LIV circuit, who have been involved in a bitter fight that has split the sport, announced a shock agreement to merge and form one unified commercial entity. Additionally, the organizations said in a joint news release they will work together to allow a process for LIV Golf […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows has testified to a federal grand jury in a special counsel’s investigations of the former president, the New York Times reported on Tuesday, citing two people briefed on the matter. Special Counsel Jack Smith is overseeing Justice Department investigations of whether Trump, who was president from 2017 to January of 2021, mishandled classified documents after leaving office, […]

By Shrivathsa Sridhar PARIS (Reuters) – Carlos Alcaraz described his French Open demolition of fifth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas in the quarter-finals on Tuesday as one of the best matches of his young career and said his level was only improving ahead of a meeting with Novak Djokovic. Barring a late wobble that only slightly delayed the inevitable on the floodlit Court Philippe Chatrier, Alcaraz was in supreme form as he […]

By Viktoriia Lakezina KHERSON, Ukraine (Reuters) – A torrent of water burst through a massive dam on the Dnipro River that separates Russian and Ukrainian forces in southern Ukraine on Tuesday, flooding a swathe of the war zone, forcing villagers to flee and prompting finger-pointing from both sides. Ukraine said Russia had committed a deliberate war crime in blowing up the Soviet-era Nova Kakhovka dam, which powered a hydroelectric station. […]

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Uber said on Wednesday it has opened a new office with space for 1,000 additional workers in Amsterdam, where the company has its international headquarters. The U.S. ride sharing and food delivery firm said in a statement it currently employs more than a thousand workers in Amsterdam and is looking to add additional engineers. “Our new headquarters gives us space to grow in Amsterdam, as we actively […]