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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -Energizer Holdings Inc and Walmart Inc have been sued by consumers and retailers in three proposed class actions accusing them of conspiring to raise the prices of disposable batteries. According to complaints filed on Friday, Energizer agreed “under pressure from Walmart” to inflate wholesale battery prices for other retailers starting around January 2018, and require those retailers not to undercut Walmart on price. Walmart […]

By Fernando Kallas MADRID (Reuters) -Karim Benzema scored a first-half hat-trick as Real Madrid recovered from a disappointing midweek loss at Girona by beating lowly Almeria 4-2 at home in LaLiga on Saturday. With six-games remaining, second-placed Real maintained their slim title hopes by moving up to 68 points, cutting Barcelona’s lead to eight points. Barcelona host sixth-placed Real Betis later on Saturday. Benzema opened the scoring in the fifth […]

(Reuters) -A Ukrainian drone strike set ablaze a Russian fuel storage facility in the Crimean port of Sevastopol early on Saturday, sending a vast column of black smoke into the sky in the latest attack on the Russia-occupied peninsula. The city’s Moscow-installed governor blamed Ukraine and later said the fire had been put out before a disaster occurred. A Ukrainian military intelligence official said more than 10 tanks of oil […]

ROME (Reuters) -AS Roma and AC Milan shared the points in a 1-1 draw at Stadio Olimpico on Saturday after a stoppage-time goal by visiting winger Alexis Saelemaekers cancelled out a Tammy Abraham strike three minutes earlier as the Serie A top-four race intensifies. Milan remain fourth in the standings, level on 57 points with Roma in fifth, with both sides two points behind third-placed Juventus who travel to Bologna […]

By Steve Holland, Jarrett Renshaw and Heather Timmons WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden launched his re-election bid on Tuesday with a promise to protect American liberties from “extremists” linked to former President Donald Trump, who he beat in 2020 and might face again in 2024. Biden made his announcement in a video released by his new campaign team that opens with imagery from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the […]

By Fernando Kallas MADRID (Reuters) – Karim Benzema scored a first-half hat-trick as Real Madrid recovered from a disappointing midweek loss at Girona by beating lowly Almeria 4-2 at home in LaLiga on Saturday. With six-games remaining, second-placed Real maintained their slim title hopes by moving up to 68 points, cutting Barcelona’s lead to eight points. Barcelona host sixth-placed Real Betis later on Saturday. Benzema opened the scoring in the […]

By Chris Prentice, Saeed Azhar, Lananh Nguyen and Paritosh Bansal (Reuters) -Banks including Citizens Financial Group Inc, PNC Financial Services Group and JPMorgan Chase & Co are among roughly half a dozen bidders vying for First Republic Bank in an auction process being run by U.S. regulators, according to sources familiar with the matter. Guggenheim Securities is advising the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC) on the sale process, two […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States on Saturday called on China to stop harassing Philippine vessels in the South China Sea, pledging to stand with the Philippines at a time of simmering geopolitical tension. “We call upon Beijing to desist from its provocative and unsafe conduct,” the U.S. State Department said in a statement. The Philippines on Friday accused China’s coast guard of “aggressive tactics” following an incident during a […]

By Raul Cortes MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The Mexican Senate approved in an express session on Saturday a package of laws including two constitutional reforms and a new mining law rebuked by the mining chamber and Canada. Representatives of the president’s Morena party and its allies, nearly unanimously and with little debate, approved the laws in a fast-tracked process without opposition legislators present. Legislators convened outside the chamber’s usual voting […]