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(Reuters) – American Rose Zhang, who has earned virtually every women’s amateur golf accomplishment so far in her decorated career, announced on Friday that she is turning professional. The 20-year-old Stanford sophomore, who leaves the amateur ranks having held top spot in the women’s world amateur golf ranking for a record 141 consecutive weeks, will make her pro debut at the LPGA’s June 1-4 Mizuho Americas Open in New Jersey. […]

By Khalil Ashawi and Ali Kucukgocmen ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Like many Syrians in Turkey, Ghaith Sameer is awaiting the result of Sunday’s election runoff with trepidation, fearing a win for an opposition candidate who promises to swiftly repatriate migrants. Sameer fled Syria’s civil war in 2012 and is now one of over 3.4 million Syrians living in neighbouring Turkey, where economic woes have aggravated a rising tide of hostility that […]

By Alan Baldwin MONACO (Reuters) – Lewis Hamilton sounded encouraged by his upgraded Mercedes after the first day of Monaco Grand Prix practice on Friday, even though the principality’s tight and twisting streets were no place for a meaningful assessment. The seven times Formula One champion, who has not won a race since 2021, was third fastest in the first session and sixth in the second. “I’ve generally had an […]

By Sam Tobin LONDON (Reuters) – Microsoft is challenging Britain’s decision to block its $69 billion takeover of “Call of Duty” maker Activision Blizzard on the grounds of “fundamental errors” in the assessment of Microsoft’s cloud gaming services. Britain’s anti-trust regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), vetoed the deal in April, saying it could hurt competition in the nascent cloud gaming market, sparking a furious row. Microsoft confirmed on […]

PARIS (Reuters) – Fresh from his maiden claycourt title at the Rome Masters, Daniil Medvedev is however taking nothing for granted before starting his French Open campaign at Roland Garros. The world number two, who has only recently improved on the slowest surface, has been finding his range on the red dirt to the point that he is now cited as one of the favourites to lift the Musketeers’ cup […]

(Adds dropped words in headline) LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s former prime minister, Boris Johnson, and U.S. former President Donald Trump discussed Ukraine and “the vital importance of Ukrainian victory” on Thursday, Johnson’s spokesperson said on Friday. Since being ousted as Britain’s prime minister last year, Johnson has been keen to forge a profile as one of Ukraine’s most ardent backers in its fight against Russia’s full-scale invasion and has been visiting […]

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazil’s government said on Friday the United Nations has confirmed the Amazonian city of Belem as the host of the COP30 climate change summit in November 2025. “I’m convinced it is going to be a great event,” President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said in a video announcing the decision. “I’m sure the people of Para state (where Belem is located) will delight the world.” (Reporting […]

By Horaci Garcia LES FRANQUESES DEL VALLES, Spain (Reuters) – As public debate about racism in Spanish football hit boiling point this week after complaints from Real Madrid winger Vinicius Jr, players at grassroots football clubs saw racism in sports as a lesser problem than in their everyday lives. On Sunday, racist chants were hurled at the Brazilian at Valencia’s Mestalla stadium and he complained about Spain and LaLiga not […]

By Alan Baldwin MONACO (Reuters) -Red Bull’s Formula One leader Max Verstappen kept Ferrari’s home hero Charles Leclerc off the top of the timesheets, while Carlos Sainz crashed, in a sunny second practice for the Monaco Grand Prix on Friday. Double world champion Verstappen’s best effort of one minute 12.462 seconds was just 0.065 quicker than Leclerc’s fastest around the treacherous city streets and came after the Dutch driver had […]