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(Reuters) – Tottenham Hotspur have reached an agreement in principle with Celtic’s Ange Postecoglou to take over as their manager, British media reported on Monday. The BBC said the 57-year-old Australian is expected to sign a two-year contract. Postecoglou, who has just guided Celtic to a domestic treble, previously coached Yokohama F Marinos, Brisbane Roar and Melbourne Victory. He also had a four-year stint as Australia manager during which he […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said Monday a drone sighting had disrupted some flights at Pittsburgh International Airport because of a drone sighting. The FAA said in a statement it has temporarily suspended some arrivals and departures as local enforcement attempts to locate the drone operator. The FAA said in a notice that airplanes could face up to 60 minute delays in arrivals because of the sighting. […]

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – Honduran President Xiomara Castro will travel to China in “the next few hours,” a state media publication announced on Monday, the first presidential visit after the Central American nation and Asian giant established diplomatic relations in March. Castro’s trip marks another step in the new relationship, after Honduras ditched ties with Taiwan in favor of Beijing. “President Xiomara Castro will travel in the next few hours to […]

By Joanna Plucinska, Tim Hepher and Aditi Shah ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Airlines took aim at Europe over green fuel mandates and its failures to stem France’s air traffic control strikes as they weigh on carrier capacities at a global airlines meeting in Istanbul on Monday. European regulators have introduced a new mandate demanding airlines use sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), an alternative to jet fuel that produces fewer carbon emissions but […]

(Reuters) -Apple Inc shares hit a record high for the first time in 17 months on Monday, ahead of an annual software developer conference, although the company’s market value remained short of an all-time peak of $3 trillion. Apple is expected to launch a mixed-reality headset at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) later in the day, which would be its first big move into a new product category since the […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury said it can now meet the federal government’s payment obligations after a debt ceiling suspension, despite earlier warnings that it would run short of funds on Monday if Congress failed to act. “Now that Congress has acted to suspend the debt limit, Treasury has the tools needed to ensure that the U.S. continues to meet all of our obligations,” Treasury spokesperson Christopher Hayden said […]

By Jatindra Dash KHARAGPUR, India (Reuters) – The official investigation into India’s deadliest rail crash in over two decades began on Monday after preliminary findings pointed to signal failure as the likely cause for a collision that killed at least 275 people and injured 1,200. The disaster struck on Friday, when a passenger train hit a stationary freight train, jumped the tracks and hit another passenger train passing in the […]

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – A year after the murders of British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira deep in the Amazon rainforest, friends, relatives and admirers gathered on Monday to call for justice and protection of indigenous lands. Phillips and Pereira vanished on June 5, 2022 on a trip to the remote Javari Valley near the border with Peru. Days later, a fisherman who had confronted indigenous […]

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Reinforcements for NATO’s peacekeeping force have begun to arrive in Kosovo following last week’s unrest in the north of the country, the alliance said on Monday. Violence flared after Kosovo authorities installed ethnic Albanian mayors in offices in northern municipalities after being elected on a turnout of just 3.5% after Serbs who form a majority in the region boycotted local polls. The clashes injured 30 members of […]