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By Maha El Dahan, Alex Lawler and Ahmad Ghaddar VIENNA (Reuters) -OPEC and its allies were meeting on Sunday to clinch a new deal possibly adjusting countries’ output quotas for this year and next and a further cut in production, sources told Reuters, as the group faces flagging oil prices and a looming supply glut. Sources described the talks as difficult, as OPEC’s most influential members and biggest producers from […]

JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday called the killing of three soldiers by a member of the Egyptian security services a terrorist attack and demanded a full joint investigation with Cairo. Egypt says it is working with Israel to investigate the incident which occurred on Saturday. “Israel relayed a clear message to the Egyptian government. We expect that the joint investigation will be exhaustive and thorough,” Netanyahu […]

BERLIN (Reuters) -A motorcycle rider died on Sunday and a triathlete was severely injured in a collision during the Ironman European championship in Hamburg, police said. The rider, who was carrying a camera operator, clashed head-on with the cyclist at a narrow part of the race where both lanes were being used by competitors and accompanying vehicles. The accident happened during live coverage of the race before Germany’s ARD broadcaster […]

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Ukrainian forces continued to shell Russia’s border region of Belgorod overnight into Sunday after two people were killed the previous night and hundreds of children were evacuated away from the border, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said. “Overnight, it was quite restless,” Gladkov said on the Telegram channel, adding that the Shebekino and Volokonovsky districts had suffered “lots” of damage from the latest shelling. Gladkov later wrote that fires had […]

By Fernando Kallas MADRID (Reuters) -Ballon d’Or winner Karim Benzema will leave Real Madrid as a free agent in the close season after 14 trophy-laden years, the LaLiga club said on Sunday, with the striker set to move to Saudi Arabian side Al Ittihad. Saudi Arabia’s state-run Al Ekhbariya television station reported that Al Ittihad had reached an agreement with Benzema on a two-year contract, with club officials in Madrid […]

By Jatindra Dash and YP Rajesh BAHANAGA, India (Reuters) – Indian authorities said they had concluded rescue operations on Sunday after the country’s deadliest rail crash in more than two decades, with signal failure emerging as the likely cause of death for at least 275 people. The death toll from Friday evening’s crash was revised down from 288 after it was found that some bodies had been counted twice, said […]

By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A federal judge has ruled that Tennessee’s law restricting drag performances in public or where children were present was unconstitutional, striking a blow to efforts in U.S. states to regulate LGBTQ conduct. Tennessee Governor Bill Lee in February had signed the bill passed by the state’s assembly that aimed to restrict drag performances, putting the state at the forefront of a Republican-led effort to […]

JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday called the killing of three soldiers by a member of the Egyptian security services a terrorist attack and demanded a full joint investigation with Cairo. Egypt says it is working with Israel to investigate the incident which occurred on Saturday. “Israel relayed a clear message to the Egyptian government. We expect that the joint investigation will be exhaustive and thorough,” Netanyahu […]

By Jessie Pang and Ben Blanchard HONG KONG/TAIPEI (Reuters) – Hong Kong police searched and detained scores of people on Sunday, four arrested for “seditious” intent, as authorities tightened security for the 34th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. Restrictions in Hong Kong have stifled what were once the biggest vigils marking the bloody crackdown by Chinese troops on pro-democracy demonstrators, leaving cities like Taipei, London, New York and […]