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By Nathan and Frandino SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The founders behind the new National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) expansion team in California’s San Francisco Bay Area believe this year’s Women’s World Cup will only add to their momentum as they kick off their inaugural season next year. Bay FC, the NWSL’s 14th club, will start play in 2024 and its founders feature former U.S. national team members Brandi Chastain, Leslie […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A senior U.S. State Department official will travel to China next week, the department said on Saturday, as Washington seeks to boost communication with Beijing at a time of tense relations between the two countries. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Daniel Kritenbrink will discuss “key issues in the bilateral relationship” during his visit to China, the State Department said in a […]

By Julien Pretot PARIS (Reuters) – A year to the day after suffering a freak injury at Roland Garros, Alexander Zverev fought his way into the fourth round of the French Open, having rediscovered his joie de vivre in a thrilling match against his friend Frances Tiafoe on Saturday. The German let out a huge scream after wrapping up a 3-6 7-6(3) 6-1 7-6(5) under the lights on Court Philippe […]

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Shelling and strikes by Ukrainian forces on Russia’s Belgorod region killed two people on Saturday as hundreds of children were evacuated away from the border, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said. “The children of Shebekino are very worried about their hometown,” Gladkov said on the Telegram channel after escorting about 600 of them from the region’s Shebekino and Graivoron districts to Yaroslavl and Kaluga. “I started leaving, they stopped me […]

By Ngouda Dione, Sofia Christensen and Diadie Ba DAKAR (Reuters) -New clashes broke out on Saturday between Senegalese opposition supporters and police in parts of the capital Dakar, the third day of protests in the West African nation sparked by the prosecution of an opposition leader. Police said the death toll since Thursday had risen to 15, making the protests among the deadliest in recent decades. Two members of the […]

By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea denounced the U.N. Security Council for holding a meeting on its recent satellite launch upon “robbery demands” from the U.S., vowing to continue rejecting sanctions and taking “self-defensive” action, state media KCNA said on Sunday. The U.S. called for a UNSC meeting last week to discuss North Korea’s attempt to put its first spy satellite in orbit, which ended in failure with […]

By Huseyin Hayatsever and Ezgi Erkoyun ANKARA (Reuters) -President Tayyip Erdogan signalled on Saturday his newly-elected government would return to more orthodox economic policies when he named Mehmet Simsek to his cabinet to tackle Turkey’s cost-of-living crisis and other strains. Simsek’s appointment as treasury and finance minister could set the stage for interest rate hikes in coming months, analysts said – a marked turnaround from Erdogan’s longstanding policy of slashing […]

By Huseyin Hayatsever and Ezgi Erkoyun ANKARA (Reuters) -President Tayyip Erdogan signalled on Saturday his newly-elected government would return to more orthodox economic policies when he named Mehmet Simsek to his cabinet to tackle Turkey’s cost-of-living crisis and other strains. Simsek’s appointment as treasury and finance minister could set the stage for interest rate hikes in coming months, analysts said – a marked turnaround from Erdogan’s longstanding policy of slashing […]

By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea denounced the U.N. Security Council for holding a meeting on its recent satellite launch upon “robbery demands” from the U.S., vowing to continue rejecting sanctions and taking “self-defensive” action, state media KCNA said on Sunday. The U.S. called for a UNSC meeting last week to discuss North Korea’s attempt to put its first spy satellite in orbit, which ended in failure with […]