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By Moira Warburton and Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden’s administration and congressional Republicans traded barbs on Saturday over raising the federal $31.4 trillion debt ceiling, with both sides casting the other’s proposals as too extreme. Officials did not meet on Saturday, after two meetings ended on Friday with no progress cited by either side and negotiators saying they were not sure when fresh talks would take place. […]

By Steve Keating ROCHESTER, New York (Reuters) -Brooks Koepka will take a one-shot lead into the final round of the PGA Championship on Sunday with a chance to claim a third Wanamaker trophy and deliver LIV Golf the major validation it seeks. Koepka, winner of back-to-back PGA Championships in 2018 and 2019, sparkled in tough, rainy conditions at Oak Hill on Saturday, mixing five birdies against a single bogey for […]

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Sunday that he backed a Group of Seven (G7) joint statement out of Japan stressing the need to ease reliance on trade with China. The G7 rich nations, which increasingly see China as a economic security threat, on Saturday issued a communique from the city of Hiroshima that referred to de-risking, not decoupling economic engagement with the world’s second largest […]

ROCHESTER, New York (Reuters) – Scottie Scheffler made a miserable start to the third round of the PGA Championship on Saturday to fall out of the lead, but the unflappable world number two dug deep to keep it together and is not counting himself out of the race. Scheffler began the day in a three-way share of the lead but after a rain-filled day at Oak Hill was tied for […]

CAIRO/DUBAI (Reuters) -Sudan’s warring factions signed an agreement late on Saturday for a seven-day ceasefire as fighting that has plunged the country into chaos and displaced more than a million entered its sixth week. The ceasefire will take effect at 9:45 p.m. Khartoum time (1945 GMT) on Monday, the sponsors of the talks, the United States and Saudi Arabia, said in a joint statement. Numerous previous ceasefire agreements were violated. […]

By Martyn Herman LONDON (Reuters) – The only real surprise about Manchester City’s march to a fifth Premier League crown in six seasons is that a callow Arsenal side managed to keep Pep Guardiola’s serial winners honest for such a long time. Even until a few weeks ago the outcome of the title race looked, on paper at least, too close to call. The reality, however, is that once City […]

JAKARTA (Reuters) – East Timorese voters headed to the polls on Sunday in a parliamentary election that analysts said would likely see two resistance-era figures battle to be prime minister. Sunday’s poll is the country’s fifth parliamentary election since East Timor gained full independence in 2002 following decades-long occupation by Indonesia. José Maria Vasconcelos, who has been prime minister since 2018, is backed a four-party coalition led by the Revolutionary […]

HIROSHIMA/SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said on Sunday that Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s words resonated with many South Koreans when earlier this month he said that “his heart hurts” for those who suffered as wartime labourers under Japan’s colonial rule. Yoon made the remark at a meeting with Kishida on the sidelines of the Group of Seven (G7) Summit in Hiroshima in Japan. The bilateral meeting […]

(Reuters) – Brooks Koepka conquered the rain at Oak Hill on Saturday and now, six weeks after squandering a final-round Masters lead, gets a re-do of sorts as he takes a lead into the final round of the PGA Championship. On a challenging day in which only nine players broke par, Koepka fired a four-under 66 for the second consecutive day, making him the first player in PGA Championship history […]