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By Ariba Shahid KARACHI (Reuters) – Seven-year-old Saad Umer joined a crowd in a poor neighbourhood in the Pakistani city of Karachi rushing to get a handout of flour and a little cash from a charity trying to help the most vulnerable cope with runaway prices. But in the surge, a melee broke out and some people fell. Saad and 10 others, all women and children, were killed in the […]

LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s Ofcom said it planned to ask the competition regulator to investigate cloud services, a market dominated by Amazon and Microsoft. The communications regulator said on Wednesday it had uncovered practices and features that made it more difficult for customers to switch and use multiple cloud suppliers, prompting it to refer the issue to the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority for further investigation. Amazon and Microsoft have a […]

By Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) – A diplomatic effort to end the war in Ukraine came back into focus on Wednesday even as the United States pledged more weapons to help Kyiv prepare for a counteroffensive and Russian forces mounted relentless attacks in the eastern city of Bakhmut. After weathering a punishing, months-long assault in eastern Ukraine, its military commanders have said a counteroffensive is not far off but have […]

LONDON (Reuters) – U.S. sports merchandise retailer Fanatics Inc will run the official online stores of Italy’s national soccer team and seven Serie A teams, through its acquisition of Italian sports e-commerce firm EPI, its first foray into the Italian market. The deal, which has not previously been reported, will also see Fanatics take over the running of in-stadium stores for AC Milan, Inter Milan, Fiorentina, and Bologna. Fanatics manufactures […]

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – The United States booked their place in the final qualifying tournament for this year’s 50-overs World Cup in India following their 25-run victory over Jersey on Tuesday. At a playoff event in Namibia, the U.S. side, led by Indian-born Monank Patel, posted 231 all out and then bowled out Jersey for 206 to confirm top spot and a place in the final qualifier in Zimbabwe in […]

RIYADH (Reuters) – The top envoys for Saudi Arabia and Iran will meet in Beijing on Thursday, an Iranian official and a Saudi-owned newspaper said, as the two regional rivals work to hash out next steps of their diplomatic rapprochement amid a China-brokered deal. The meeting between Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud and his Iranian counterpart, Hossein Amirabdollahian, will be the first formal meeting between Saudi Arabia and Iran’s […]

By Ariba Shahid KARACHI (Reuters) – Seven-year-old Saad Umer joined a crowd in a poor neighbourhood in the Pakistani city of Karachi rushing to get a handout of flour and a little cash from a charity trying to help the most vulnerable cope with runaway prices. But in the surge, a melee broke out and some people fell. Saad and 10 others, all women and children, were killed in the […]

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexico’s president said on Tuesday he had written to his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, urging him to help control shipments of fentanyl as he fended off criticism in the U.S. that Mexico is not doing enough to stop trafficking of the synthetic opioid. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador read out the letter to Xi dated March 22 in which he defended efforts to curb supply of the […]

KYIV (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy arrived in neighbouring Poland on Wednesday, a Polish presidential aide said, as he begins an official visit to a close ally that has galvanised Western military and political support for Kyiv.    The visit, which was announced this week by Poland but has not been officially confirmed by Kyiv, comes with Ukraine planning to conduct a counter-offensive in the coming weeks or months to […]