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By Steve Keating AUGUSTA, Georgia (Reuters) -Rock-steady Jon Rahm, channeling Spanish great Seve Ballesteros on his late hero’s birthday, survived a marathon day and scored an emotional Masters win at Augusta National on Sunday, denying LIV Golf a watershed victory. Rahm, who started the day four off the lead, rallied behind a final round three-under 69 for a winning total of 12-under 276 and a decisive four-shot victory over LIV […]

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s industry ministry is finalising a plan to provide state-backed chip maker Rapidus an additional 300 billion yen ($2.27 billion) in funding to build a semiconductor plant in the northern island of Hokkaido, a local paper reported on Saturday. Rapidus, which in February picked Chitose, near Sapporo, as the site for a cutting-edge two-nanometre chip factory, previously secured an initial 70 billion yen funding from the government. […]

By Florence Tan SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Oil prices nudged higher in early Asian trade on Monday, supported by the prospect of tighter supplies from OPEC+ producers from May, but concerns about the global economic outlook capped gains. Brent crude futures gained 13 cents, or 0.2%, to $85.25 a barrel by 2356 GMT, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude was at $80.84 a barrel, up 14 cents, or 0.2%. Both contracts […]

By Steve Keating AUGUSTA, Georgia (Reuters) -Rock-steady Jon Rahm, channeling Spanish great Seve Ballesteros on his late hero’s birthday, survived a marathon day and scored an emotional Masters win at Augusta National on Sunday, denying LIV Golf a watershed victory. Rahm, who started the day four off the lead, rallied behind a final round three-under 69 for a winning total of 12-under 276 and a decisive four-shot victory over LIV […]

By Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Highly classified military and intelligence documents that appeared online, with details ranging from Ukraine’s air defenses to Israel’s Mossad spy agency, have U.S. officials scrambling to identify the leak’s source, with some Western security experts and U.S. officials saying they suspected it could be someone from the United States. Officials say the breadth of topics addressed in the documents, which touch on the war in […]

(Reuters) – Talking points from the weekend in European soccer leagues: IT’S GETTING TO THE END OF THE SEASON, AND INTER ARE OUT OF SHAPE There was a visible sense of frustration on the face of Inter Milan manager Simone Inzaghi as he watched his team’s win slip away during the final moments of Friday’s 1-1 draw at Salernitana, maintaining the trend of negative performance at a critical point in […]

(Reuters) – Talking points from the weekend in European soccer leagues: IT’S GETTING TO THE END OF THE SEASON, AND INTER ARE OUT OF SHAPE There was a visible sense of frustration on the face of Inter Milan manager Simone Inzaghi as he watched his team’s win slip away during the final moments of Friday’s 1-1 draw at Salernitana, maintaining the trend of negative performance at a critical point in […]

By Steve Keating AUGUSTA, Georgia (Reuters) -Rock-steady Jon Rahm, channeling Spanish great Seve Ballesteros on his late hero’s birthday, survived a marathon day to score an emotional Masters win at Augusta National on Sunday, denying LIV Golf a watershed victory. Rahm, who started the day four off the lead, rallied behind a final round three-under 69 for a winning total of 12-under 276 and a decisive four-shot victory over the […]

By Steve Keating AUGUSTA, Georgia (Reuters) -Rock-steady Jon Rahm, channeling Spanish great Seve Ballesteros on his late hero’s birthday, survived a marathon day to score an emotional Masters win at Augusta National on Sunday, denying LIV Golf a watershed victory. Rahm, who started the day four off the lead, rallied behind a final round three-under 69 for a winning total of 12-under 276 and a decisive four-shot victory over the […]