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(Reuters) – Manchester City’s medical team is working round the clock to keep key striker Erling Haaland fit for the season run-in, manager Pep Guardiola said ahead of Saturday’s Premier League game at home to Leicester City. Haaland, who joined from Borussia Dortmund this season, has scored 45 goals in all competitions for City — a single-season record for any Premier League player. There had been concerns over Haaland’s fitness […]

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Emergency authorities in Western Australia were assessing damage on Saturday from a tropical cyclone that hit the state’s northwest, sparing heavily populated areas but affecting several remote communities. Ilsa, downgraded to a severe weather system, made landfall in the sparsely populated Pilbara region of Western Australia early on Friday with an intensity rating of 5, the highest. The storm is the second extreme weather event this year […]

By Sakura Murakami TOKYO (Reuters) -Foreign ministers of the Group of Seven nations will focus on the security of both Europe and the Indo-Pacific as they gather in Japan from Sunday against a worrying backdrop of the war in Ukraine and China’s growing assertiveness.        The three-day meeting in the resort town of Karuizawa also comes amid concern that some European G7 leaders – notably French President Emmanuel Macron – […]

BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s top diplomat Wang Yi “hopes and believes” Germany will support China’s “peaceful reunification” with Taiwan, the Chinese foreign ministry said in a statement on Saturday. Wang made the remarks at a meeting with German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, who is visiting China until Saturday, adding that China once supported Germany’s reunification. “To maintain stability in the Taiwan Strait, it is necessary to firmly oppose separatist activities related […]

By Katya Golubkova and Yuka Obayashi SAPPORO, Japan (Reuters) – Members of the Group of Seven rich nations must act to help emerging countries reduce emissions, including the financing of decarbonisation in “hard-to-abate” industries, Japan’s economy and trade minister said on Saturday. Ministers from the G7 are meeting for climate and energy talks in the Japan’s northern city of Sapporo on Saturday and Sunday, as part of Japan’s G7 presidency […]

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was evacuated unhurt after a suspect threw what appeared to be a smoke bomb at an outdoor speech in western Japan on Saturday, domestic media reported. A loud explosion was heard, but the premier took cover and was unharmed while police subdued a man at the scene, public broadcaster NHK said. There were no injuries, NHK said, citing police. “Police are investigating […]

By Katya Golubkova and Yuka Obayashi SAPPORO, Japan (Reuters) – Members of the Group of Seven rich nations must act to help emerging countries reduce emissions, including the financing of decarbonisation in “hard-to-abate” industries, Japan’s economy and trade minister said on Saturday. Ministers from the G7 are meeting for climate and energy talks in the Japan’s northern city of Sapporo on Saturday and Sunday, as part of Japan’s G7 presidency […]

By Katya Golubkova and Yuka Obayashi SAPPORO, Japan (Reuters) – Members of the Group of Seven rich nations must act to help emerging countries reduce emissions, including the financing of decarbonisation in “hard-to-abate” industries, Japan’s economy and trade minister said on Saturday. Ministers from the G7 are meeting for climate and energy talks in the Japan’s northern city of Sapporo on Saturday and Sunday, as part of Japan’s G7 presidency […]

DHAKA (Reuters) – A huge fire swept through a shopping complex containing nearly 1,500 shops in Bangladesh’s capital of Dhaka, officials said on Saturday as firefighters and soldiers struggled to put out the blaze with smoke hampering rescue efforts. There were no casualties reported so far, but it was unknown how many people could have been trapped inside as the blaze erupted in the early hours of the morning, before […]