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ALGIERS (Reuters) – USM Alger dedicated their first ever title in the African Confederation Cup to their former attacking midfielder Billel Benhammouda, who died in a car accident last year, with the team captain inviting the player’s father on to the podium at Saturday’s trophy presentation. Benhammouda, who was 24, died in June last year, a day after scoring a goal for Algeria’s national team in a 3-0 friendly win […]

ALGIERS (Reuters) – USM Alger dedicated their first ever title in the African Confederation Cup to their former attacking midfielder Billel Benhammouda, who died in a car accident last year, with the team captain inviting the player’s father on to the podium at Saturday’s trophy presentation. Benhammouda, who was 24, died in June last year, a day after scoring a goal for Algeria’s national team in a 3-0 friendly win […]

PARIS (Reuters) – Highlights of the eighth day at the French Open on Sunday (times GMT): 0911 PLAY UNDER WAY Play began under sunny skies at Roland Garros, with the temperature hovering around 21 degrees Celsius (69.8°F). Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova takes on Elise Mertens in the first match on Court Philippe-Chatrier before Novak Djokovic and top seed Carlos Alcaraz play their respective fourth-round matches. The night session features second seed Aryna […]

PARIS (Reuters) – Highlights of the eighth day at the French Open on Sunday (times GMT): 0911 PLAY UNDER WAY Play began under sunny skies at Roland Garros, with the temperature hovering around 21 degrees Celsius (69.8°F). Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova takes on Elise Mertens in the first match on Court Philippe-Chatrier before Novak Djokovic and top seed Carlos Alcaraz play their respective fourth-round matches. The night session features second seed Aryna […]

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – European planemaker Airbus is seeing a more predictable pattern in its industrial activities and what appears to be the start of a more positive trend in deliveries, Chief Commercial Officer Christian Scherer said. “The trend seems to want to be positive. We are seeing a steady increase in our ability to fly planes as they come out of the assembly line,” he told Reuters, adding that Airbus […]

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – European planemaker Airbus is seeing a more predictable pattern in its industrial activities and what appears to be the start of a more positive trend in deliveries, Chief Commercial Officer Christian Scherer said. “The trend seems to want to be positive. We are seeing a steady increase in our ability to fly planes as they come out of the assembly line,” he told Reuters, adding that Airbus […]

By Maha El Dahan, Alex Lawler and Ahmad Ghaddar VIENNA (Reuters) – OPEC and its allies will meet on Sunday to debate a new deal possibly adjusting countries’ output quotas for this year and next and a further cut in production, sources told Reuters, as the group faces flagging oil prices and a looming supply glut. OPEC+, which groups the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and allies led by […]

By Maha El Dahan, Alex Lawler and Ahmad Ghaddar VIENNA (Reuters) – OPEC and its allies will meet on Sunday to debate a new deal possibly adjusting countries’ output quotas for this year and next and a further cut in production, sources told Reuters, as the group faces flagging oil prices and a looming supply glut. OPEC+, which groups the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and allies led by […]

By Andrew Hayley BEIJING (Reuters) – A landslide in China’s southwestern Sichuan province has killed 14 people and left five missing, Chinese state media outlet CCTV reported on Sunday. The landslide occurred at around 6 a.m. (2200 GMT) on Sunday morning in a mountainous area near Leshan city in the south of the province. More than 180 rescue workers have been dispatched to the site, with search and rescue operations […]