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By Michel Rose and Laurie Chen BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s Xi Jinping expressed willingness to speak to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the head of the EU said on Thursday, after French President Emmanuel Macron urged Beijing to talk sense to Russia over the war in Ukraine. In closely watched talks, European Union chief Ursula von der Leyen and Macron met with Xi in Beijing. Macron said the West must engage China […]

(Reuters) -The DP World Tour has won its legal battle to be able to suspend and fine LIV Golf players who featured in conflicting events without permission after the independent UK-based panel of Sports Resolutions found in its favour on Thursday. Members of the DP World Tour, also known as the European Tour, who played in Saudi-backed LIV Golf’s opening tournament last June sought a “conflicting event” exemption but the […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Jim Jordan, the Republican chair of the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, on Thursday issued a subpoena to Mark Pomerantz, a former prosecutor who led the Manhattan district attorney’s investigation of Donald Trump. The subpoena seeks Pomerantz’s appearance before the committee for a deposition. Pomerantz, who left the office early last year, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. He has previously declined to […]

(Reuters) – A Israeli police raid on Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque on Wednesday has triggered a furious reaction from Palestinians across the occupied West Bank and the wider Arab and Muslim world. WHERE AND WHAT IS THE AL-AQSA MOSQUE? The Al-Aqsa lies at the heart of Jerusalem’s Old City on a hill known to Jews as Har ha-Bayit, or Temple Mount, and to Muslims internationally as al-Haram al-Sharif, or The Noble […]

By Alexander Marrow MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Wikimedia Foundation, owner of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, was fined by a Russian court on Thursday for failing to delete content considered extremist as Moscow pursues a drive to crack down on independent sources of information. Wikipedia, which says it offers “the second draft of history”, is one of the few surviving fact-checked sources of information in Russian since the crackdown intensified after […]

By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell last week, but annual revisions to the data showed applications were higher this year than initially thought, further evidence that the labor market was slowing. With Thursday’s weekly jobless claims report, the Labor Department updated the methodology used to seasonally adjust the initial claims and the so-called continued claims data. Prior to the […]

By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The International Monetary Fund expects global economic growth to dip below 3% in 2023 and to remain at around 3% for the next five years, Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said on Thursday, flagging increased downside risks. That is the global lender’s lowest medium-term growth forecast since 1990, and well below the average growth of 3.8% seen in the past two decades. Georgieva said strong monetary […]

By Anita Kobylinska (Reuters) – Juventus could move within a point of the European qualifying places on Saturday, less than three months after a 15-point deduction sent them into mid-table, but their comeback run faces its stiffest test yet away to second-placed Lazio. Juve began an unbeaten streak of seven games in all competitions shortly after being handed the punishment related to the club’s transfer dealings, starting by eliminating Lazio […]

(Reuters) – Liverpool have been charged by the Football Association with failing to control their players during Saturday’s 4-1 defeat at Manchester City. Several Liverpool players crowded around referee Simon Hooper as they pleaded for him to show City midfielder Rodri a second yellow card for a challenge on Cody Gakpo. “Liverpool FC has been charged after its players surrounded a match official during the 34th minute of their Premier […]