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By Karolos Grohmann PARIS (Reuters) – Top seed Iga Swiatek of Poland pulverised Wang Xinyu of China 6-0 6-0 on Saturday with a flawless display to stay firmly on course to successfully defend her French Open title and fire a warning to her rivals. Swiatek, aiming to win her third trophy in Paris in five years, showed no weaknesses as she cruised into the fourth round. She wasted little time […]

PARIS (Reuters) – Last year’s runner-up Coco Gauff overcame a shaky start to end fellow teenager Mirra Andreeva’s French Open run with a 6-7(5) 6-1 6-1 victory on Saturday to reach the fourth round. On a sunny afternoon, Gauff struggled to handle Russian Andreeva’s firepower before finding her stride to set up a meeting with Anna Karolina Schmiedlova of Slovakia or American qualifier Kayla Day with a potential quarter-final clash […]

By Sofia Christensen, Diadie Ba and Ngouda Dione DAKAR (Reuters) – The death toll from anti-government protests in Senegal has risen to 15, police said on Saturday, as authorities in the capital Dakar began to clear up debris and secure looted shops after two days of unrest. Most of Dakar appeared quiet on Saturday, but tensions remained high after violent protests in several cities killed six people on Friday, taking […]

(Reuters) -Here are details of some of the deadliest rail accidents in recent decades in India, where at least 261 people were killed in a train crash in the eastern state of Odisha on Friday. June 1981: At least 800 people are killed when seven rear coaches of an overcrowded passenger train are blown off the track and fall into a river during a cyclone. July 1988: An express train […]

By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Kremlin said on Saturday that journalists from “unfriendly countries” would not be allowed into the St Petersburg International Economic Forum, which President Vladimir Putin has used to showcase the Russian economy to global investors. The forum in St Petersburg, the former imperial capital built by Tsar Peter the Great 300 years ago as a “window” to Europe, has been held since 1997 and is […]

By Ahmad Ghaddar, Alex Lawler and Maha El Dahan LONDON (Reuters) -OPEC and its allies began two days of meetings on Saturday that may culminate in further production cuts of as much as 1 million barrels per day, OPEC+ 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 Russia, pumps […]

By Jatindra Dash and Abinaya V BHUBANESWAR, India (Reuters) -At least 261 people have died in India’s worst rail accident in over two decades, officials said on Saturday, after a passenger train went off the tracks and hit another one in the east of the country. One train in Friday’s accident also hit a freight train parked nearby in the district of Balasore in Odisha state, leaving a tangled mess […]

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina soccer club Boca Juniors have decided to drop Colombian winger Sebastian Villa from the team following his conviction for violence against his former partner Daniela Cortes. The 27-year-old Villa, a Colombia international, received a prison sentence of two years and one month on Friday following the conviction, which was suspended due to it being less than three years. “As of now (Villa) will not take […]

By Nick Mulvenney SYDNEY (Reuters) -Fijian Drua hammered the Queensland Reds 41-17 in Suva on Saturday to romp into the Super Rugby Pacific playoffs in their second season in the competition, but there is joy too for the Australians as other results earned them a knockout berth. A Waikato Chiefs side showing 11 changes were too strong for the Western Force in Perth as they ran in six tries to […]