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LONDON (Reuters) – Luton Town will play in the Premier League for the first time after beating Coventry City 6-5 on penalties in Saturday’s Championship playoff final at Wembley Stadium, earning a return to England’s top flight after a 31-year absence. Coventry’s Fankaty Dabo missed the crucial penalty, blazing his shot over the crossbar, to seal the win for Luton following a 1-1 draw then a goalless period of extra […]

By David Lawder DETROIT (Reuters) – Trade ministers of 14 countries in the U.S.-led Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) talks “substantially completed” negotiations on an agreement to make supply chains more resilient and secure, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said on Saturday. The “first of its kind” agreement calls for countries to form a council to coordinate supply chain activities and a “Crisis Response Network” to give early warnings to IPEF […]

By Alan Baldwin MONACO (Reuters) – Formula One leader Max Verstappen beat Fernando Alonso to pole position at the Monaco Grand Prix on Saturday and conceded even he would like to see the evergreen Aston Martin driver win again. The Spaniard, a two-times world champion like Verstappen, has not won a race since he was at Ferrari a decade ago but at the age of 41 is rolling back the […]

By Aleksandar Vasovic BELGRADE (Reuters) – Tens of thousands braved rain and wind in Belgrade on Saturday in an anti-government protest over two mass shootings that killed 18 people, blaming the deaths on a culture of violence that critics say authorities have allowed to permeate society. On May 3 a teenage boy killed nine pupils and a security guard in Belgrade in the first school mass shooting in Serbia, and […]

By Rohith Nair (Reuters) – Aryna Sabalenka’s opening match in her quest for a second Grand Slam title has political undertones when she faces Ukraine’s Marta Kostyuk at the French Open on Sunday, but the Belarusian has not time to delve on any negative feelings towards her. Kostyuk has maintained she will not shake hands with tour rivals from Russia and Belarus, who she feels have not done enough to […]

LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s automated border control gates have returned to normal operation, the Home Office said on Saturday, after a nationwide system issue caused major delays. Images posted on social media earlier showed long queues of hundreds of people at London’s Heathrow and Gatwick airports, with frustrated passengers complaining of having to wait several hours in line. “Following a technical border system fault which affected e-gate arrivals into the UK, […]

By Alan Baldwin MONACO (Reuters) -Red Bull’s Max Verstappen risked all to secure his first Monaco Grand Prix pole position with a breathtaking final qualifying lap on the limit after Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso had gone fastest. “Oh my God I hit the wall two times,” gasped Verstappen over the radio after crossing the line in the dying seconds with a best time of one minute 11.365 seconds to beat […]

MONACO (Reuters) – Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc was handed a three-place grid drop for his home Monaco Grand Prix for impeding McLaren’s Lando Norris in qualifying on Saturday, meaning he will start sixth instead of third. The penalty means also that Alpine’s Esteban Ocon moves up to third and Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz will start fourth. Mercedes’ seven-times Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton will start fifth. “Norris was on a fast […]

KYIV (Reuters) – Russian forces have temporarily eased their attacks on the besieged eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut to regroup and strengthen their capabilities, a senior Kyiv official said on Saturday. Separately, senior Ukrainian officials indicated their forces were ready to launch a long-promised counteroffensive to recapture territory taken by Russia since the start of the war. Russia’s Wagner private army began handing over positions to regular troops this week […]