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By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK (Reuters) -As the U.S. stock market continues its climb, investors holding shares of the massive tech and growth companies leading the charge are debating whether to cash out or stay on for the ride. A record $8.5 billion flowed into tech stocks in the latest week, data from BofA Global Research showed, as investors piled into a rally that has seen the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 […]

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Airlines said on Sunday they are ready to avoid a repeat of last year’s travel chaos, but warned that some flights could still be disrupted by controller strikes and hit out at schemes that force them to pay compensation for unavoidable delays. “I am reasonably confident that we’ll be able to get through this peak summer without too much disruption,” Willie Walsh, director general of the International […]

By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the International Atomic Energy Agency on Sunday of ineffectually policing Iran’s nuclear activities and suggested the U.N. watchdog risked becoming politicised and irrelevant. The unusual criticism followed an IAEA report last week that Iran had provided a satisfactory answer on one case of suspect uranium particles and re-installed some monitoring equipment originally put in place under a now-defunct […]

(Reuters) – Formula One stewards reprimanded Haas team principal Guenther Steiner on Sunday after he criticised a penalty given to Nico Hulkenberg in Monaco and called for professional officials. The stewards said after a Spanish Grand Prix hearing that they would take no further action on two alleged breaches of the governing FIA’s International Sporting Code (ISC). They issued a reprimand for a third breach regarding misconduct towards officials and […]

By Jatindra Dash and YP Rajesh BAHANAGA, India (Reuters) -Indian authorities on Sunday completed rescue operations after the country’s deadliest rail crash in more than two decades, with signal failure emerging as the likely cause of an accident that killed at least 275 people. The death toll from Friday’s crash was revised down from 288 after it was found that some bodies had been counted twice, said Pradeep Jena, chief […]

By Maha El Dahan, Alex Lawler and Ahmad Ghaddar VIENNA (Reuters) -OPEC and its allies met on Sunday to try to agree further cuts in production, sources told Reuters, as the group faces flagging oil prices and a looming supply glut. The group, known as OPEC+, delayed the start of formal talks by at least three and a half hours due to members’ discussions on the sidelines of production baselines, […]

PARIS (Reuters) – Japan’s Miyu Kato and Indonesia’s Aldila Sutjiadi were disqualified from the French Open after Kato struck a ball down the court between points, hitting a ball girl, during their women’s doubles third-round match on Sunday. Umpire Alexandre Juge gave Kato a warning before Czech Marie Bouzkova and Spain’s Sara Sorribes Tormo, on the other side of the net, asked for their opponents to be disqualified. “No, no, […]

PARIS (Reuters) – Highlights of the eighth day at the French Open on Sunday (times GMT): 1222 PAVLYUCHENKOVA SEES OFF MERTENS Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, a 2021 finalist, fought back from the brink to earn an impressive 3-6 7-6(3) 6-3 comeback win over Belgian 28th seed Elise Mertens to reach the quarter-finals. Mertens was 4-1 up in the second set but then struggled to deal with Pavlyuchenkova’s relentless power as the Russian […]

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – The head of a group representing global airlines renewed pressure on planemakers to speed up plane and parts production on Sunday, warning the delays would curtail airline capacity as demand for air travel nears a full recovery from the pandemic. Willie Walsh, director general of the International Air Transport Association, told Reuters the topic had been raised by “every single one” of the airline CEOs he had […]