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(Reuters) – An explosion near the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro on Saturday hit a two-storey dwelling, injuring at least 13 people, and other residents remained trapped under the rubble, the regional governor and other officials said. Serhiy Lysak, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said three children were among the injured. Emergency services were at the scene in a town just north of Dnipro and had pulled one man […]

KAMPALA (Reuters) – Somalia’s al Shabaab militant group killed 54 Ugandan soldiers last week in an attack on a military base in Somalia, Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni said on Saturday. (Reporting by Kanjyik Ghosh in Bengaluru and Elias Biryabarema in Kampala; Editing by Cynthia Osterman) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

PARIS (Reuters) – Tunisian seventh seed Ons Jabeur overcame a bad start to reach the fourth round of the French Open with a 4-6 6-4 6-2 victory over Serbian qualifier Olga Danilovic on Saturday. Jabeur, who has endured a stop-start season in which she had minor knee surgery before winning the title in Charleston and skipping the Madrid Open with a calf problem, was slow out of the starting blocks […]

PARIS (Reuters) – Highlights of the seventh day at the French Open on Saturday (times GMT): 2157 DIMITROV CRUSHES ALTMAIER Bulgarian 28th seed Grigor Dimitrov swept aside German Daniel Altmaier with a resounding 6-4 6-3 6-1 win to advance to the fourth round. READ MORE: Ruud not haunted by French Open final defeat, eyes another deep run Swiatek serves up double bagel as Gauff, Rune advance Gauff fights back to […]

By Jatindra Dash and Abinaya V BAHANAGA, India (Reuters) – At least 288 people have died in India’s worst rail crash in over two decades, officials said on Saturday, after a passenger train went off the tracks and hit another one in an accident a preliminary report blamed on signal failure. One train in Friday’s accident also hit a freight train parked nearby in the district of Balasore in Odisha […]

(Reuters) – Four children died and a man was missing after 11 people fishing on the shore of the St. Lawrence River in Canada’s Quebec province were swept away by a tide, police said on Saturday. The children, all over the age of 10, were found unresponsive early Saturday morning on the shore in the Portneuf-sur-Mer area north of Quebec City. They were taken to a hospital in the region […]

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 […]

BELGRADE (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Serbs joined an anti-government protest in Belgrade on Saturday, blaming a culture of violence for the deaths of 18 people in two mass shootings and calling on the interior minister to resign. The protest marked the one-month anniversary of the country’s first school shooting on May 3, when a teenager killed ten in an elementary school. In the second shooting on May 4, […]

By Julien Pretot PARIS (Reuters) – Defending champion Iga Swiatek continued her imperious march towards a third French Open title in four years with a 6-0 6-0 humiliation of Wang Xinyu on Saturday to reach the fourth round. The world number one swept her Chinese opponent aside in 51 minutes with a potential quarter-final clash against Coco Gauff, who she demolished in last year’s final, looming. Gauff ended the run […]