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(Reuters) – Canada’s Alison Jackson was a surprise winner of the Paris Roubaix Femmes as she edged a thrilling sprint finish after many of the race favourites had been caught up in crashes. Jackson, 34, produced a powerful finish around the Roubaix velodrome to clinch victory at the end of a brutal 145.5km trek across some fearsome cobbled sections in northern France. Italy’s Katia Ragusa was second with Marthe Truyen […]

LONDON (Reuters) – Frank Lampard always knew he had a big job on his hands and a losing start to his return as interim Chelsea manager on Saturday only confirmed that. The 1-0 defeat at Wolverhampton Wanderers made no difference to 11th-placed Chelsea’s Premier League position but was hardly what was needed ahead of a Champions League quarter-final first leg at holders Real Madrid next Wednesday. The focus is now […]

By Martyn Herman LONDON (Reuters) – Newcastle United edged closer to a return to the Champions League and Manchester United maintained their top-four pursuit with Premier League wins on Saturday while at the bottom there were vital victories for Bournemouth and West Ham United. Frank Lampard’s comeback as Chelsea’s caretaker manager fell flat, however, as the Londoners went down 1-0 at Wolverhampton Wanderers whose survival hopes also got a huge […]

Aden (Reuters) – An official of Yemen’s Houthi movement said on Saturday the group had received 13 detainees released by Saudi Arabia in exchange for a Saudi detainee freed earlier, ahead of a wider prisoners exchange agreed by the warring sides. Houthi official Abdul Qader al-Mortada said on Twitter the 13 detainees had arrived in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, which is held by the Iran-aligned Houthi group that has been […]

By Amina Ismail ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) -The Iraqi government called on Turkey on Saturday to apologize for what it said was an attack on Sulaymaniyah airport in northern Iraq, saying Ankara must cease hostilities on Iraqi soil. The Iraqi presidency said in a statement that Turkey had no legal justification to continue “intimidating civilians under the pretext that forces hostile to it are present on Iraqi soil”. “In this regard […]

LONDON (Reuters) -Tottenham Hotspur’s Harry Kane struck a late winner in a fiery 2-1 home victory over Brighton & Hove Albion on Saturday to boost his side’s hopes of a top-four finish. Son Heung-min’s 100th Premier League goal, a superb curler in the 10th minute, had given Spurs the lead against the run of play but Brighton levelled through Lewis Dunk in the 34th. Brighton were by far the better […]

By Rami Amichay TEL AVIV (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Israelis joined protests on Saturday against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plans to tighten controls on the Supreme Court, despite heightened security worries after two deadly attacks a day earlier. The latest in a series of protests against the plans, which were paused last month in the face of a wave of strikes and mass demonstrations, come as Israel faces […]

By Anna Dabrowska UKRAINE/BELARUS BORDER (Reuters) – More than 30 children were reunited with their families in Ukraine this weekend after a long operation to bring them back home from Russia or Russian-occupied Crimea, where they had been taken from areas occupied by Russian forces during the war. Mothers hugged sons and daughters as they crossed the border from Belarus into Ukraine on Friday after a complex rescue mission involving […]

By Frank Pingue AUGUSTA, Georgia (Reuters) -Midway leader Brooks Koepka parred his opening hole to maintain a two-shot lead over Jon Rahm in early third-round action at the Masters on Saturday at chilly Augusta National where windy and rainy conditions are expected. After 39 golfers returned early to finish the second round, which was cut short on Friday by a storm that knocked three of the course’s pines trees over, […]