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(Reuters) -President Ebrahim Raisi said on Saturday that the hijab was the law in Iran after a viral video showed a man throwing yoghurt at two unveiled women in a shop near a holy Shi’ite Muslim city. Growing numbers of women have defied authorities by discarding their veils after nationwide protests that followed the death in September of a 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman in the custody of the morality police […]

By Liliana Salgado LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (Reuters) – Arkansas first responders on Saturday were sifting through debris for more possible victims after tornadoes sliced through the state, killing at least four people and injuring dozens of others. The twisters sheared roofs and walls from many buildings, flipped over vehicles and downed trees and power lines in Little Rock and large areas east and northeast of the state capital, officials said. […]

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s Huawei Technologies is partnering with more legacy automakers to produce Aito-branded electric cars, the company’s senior executive said on Saturday, in a move to expand its presence in the auto industry. Huawei will team up with Chery Automobile, BAIC Motor and Anhui Jianghuai Automobile Group in jointly developing and manufacturing Aito-branded vehicles, Richard Yu, Huawei’s Smart Car CEO, said at the China EV 100 forum in […]

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s Huawei Technologies is partnering with more legacy automakers to produce Aito-branded electric cars, the company’s senior executive said on Saturday, in a move to expand its presence in the auto industry. Huawei will team up with Chery Automobile, BAIC Motor and Anhui Jianghuai Automobile Group in jointly developing and manufacturing Aito-branded vehicles, Richard Yu, Huawei’s Smart Car CEO, said at the China EV 100 forum in […]

By Anna Voitenko (Reuters) – Ukraine’s Stanislav Oliferchuk has been training in Kyiv since the swimming pool in Mariupol was hit by a missile, and the country’s diving champion has vowed to boycott international events which feature Russians or Belarusians. Oliferchuk had been eagerly awaiting the reopening of Neptun swimming pool in Mariupol, which underwent two years of costly, major restoration. The revamped facility was set to reopen early last […]

By Anna Voitenko (Reuters) – Ukraine’s Stanislav Oliferchuk has been training in Kyiv since the swimming pool in Mariupol was hit by a missile, and the country’s diving champion has vowed to boycott international events which feature Russians or Belarusians. Oliferchuk had been eagerly awaiting the reopening of Neptun swimming pool in Mariupol, which underwent two years of costly, major restoration. The revamped facility was set to reopen early last […]

By Liliana Salgado LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (Reuters) – Arkansas first responders on Saturday were sifting through debris for more possible victims after tornadoes sliced through the state, killing at least four people and injuring dozens of others. The twisters sheared roofs and walls from many buildings, flipped over vehicles and downed trees and power lines in Little Rock and large areas east and northeast of the state capital, officials said. […]

(Reuters) – Alex Marquez overcame a crash and fire on his Gresini Ducati machine in the first qualifying session to take his maiden pole position in MotoGP at the Argentina Grand Prix on Saturday, on a damp track where his tyre gamble paid off. Marquez had initially topped Q1 to move into Q2, but he had to switch bikes after his machine caught fire after a fall, and he had […]

By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Many Republicans in the U.S. Congress have responded to Donald Trump’s looming Tuesday arraignment by characterizing the criminal justice system as corrupt, in accusations that parallel their earlier broadsides against the nation’s elections after the former president’s 2020 defeat.     Trump and his allies in the House of Representatives and Senate have used rhetoric that echoed his false claims of widespread election fraud in […]