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(Reuters) -American Brandon McNulty of UAE Team Emirates held off Ben Healy and Marco Frigo to win stage 15 of the Giro d’Italia on Sunday, after a 195km ride from Seregno to Bergamo. McNulty turned on the afterburners with a perfectly-timed sprint to race past Healy (EF Education-Easy Post) and Frigo (Israel–Premier Tech) in the final 100m to snatch victory, while Bruno Armirail of Groupama–FDJ retained the leader’s maglia rosa […]

(Reuters) – American Brandon McNulty of UAE Team Emirates held off Ben Healy and Marco Frigo to win stage 15 of the Giro d’Italia on Sunday, after a 195km ride from Seregno to Bergamo. McNulty turned on the afterburners with a perfectly-timed sprint to race past Healy (EF Education-Easy Post) and Frigo (Israel–Premier Tech) in the final 100m to snatch victory. Healy finished second, ahead of Frigo, who appeared to […]

CANNES (Reuters) – Lily Gladstone, who grew up on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation and stars in Martin Scorsese’s study of white society’s treachery, said the director was a powerful ally in telling the world what communities like hers had always known. In the film “Killers of the Flower Moon”, which premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Gladstone plays Mollie Burkhart, a member of the Osage Nation whose family members […]

(Reuters) – Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari said that he could support holding interest rates steady at the central bank’s next meeting in June to give officials more time to assess the effects of past rate increases and the inflation outlook, the Wall Street Journal said on Sunday. “I’m open to the idea that we can move a little bit more slowly from here,” the newspaper quoted Kashkari as saying […]

BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s cyberspace regulator said on Sunday that products made by U.S. memory chip manufacturer Micron Technology had failed its network security review and that it would bar operators of key infrastructure from procuring from the firm. According to China’s broad definition of critical information infrastructure, this could include sectors ranging from transport to finance. “The review found that Micron’s products have serious network security risks, which pose significant […]

(Reuters) – Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari said that he could support holding interest rates steady at the central bank’s next meeting in June to give officials more time to assess the effects of past rate increases and the inflation outlook, the Wall Street Journal said on Sunday. “I’m open to the idea that we can move a little bit more slowly from here,” the newspaper quoted Kashkari as saying […]

ROME (Reuters) -Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni pledged to support the recovery of flood-hit areas of northern Italy on Sunday after returning early from the G7 summit in Japan to see the damage first hand. Meloni toured towns in the Emilia-Romagna region, where the floods have killed 14 people and caused damage estimated at billions of euros, after stopping off on her way back from the summit in Asia. “It has […]

By Trevor Hunnicutt, Jeff Mason and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden on Sunday called the latest Republican offer in talks on lifting the government’s debt ceiling “unacceptable” but said he would be willing to cut spending together with tax adjustments to reach a deal. Before leaving Hiroshima, Japan, after a meeting of G7 leaders, Biden suggested some Republicans in Congress were willing to see the U.S. default on […]

By Sybille de La Hamaide PARIS (Reuters) -Governments should consider vaccinating poultry against bird flu, which has killed hundreds of millions of birds and infected mammals worldwide, to prevent the virus from turning into a new pandemic, the head of the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) said. The severity of the current outbreak of avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, and the economic and personal damage it has caused, […]