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ROME (Reuters) – Elena Rybakina will head to the French Open with the confidence that she can be as effective on clay as she is on the other two surfaces with her booming serve and groundstrokes after the Kazakh world number six won the Italian Open on Saturday. The Moscow-born 23-year-old bagged her second title of 2023 after her Indian Wells triumph and fifth overall when Ukraine’s Anhelina Kalinina retired […]

SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) -At least 12 people died and an unspecified number were injured in a stampede at a soccer stadium in El Salvador on Saturday, the Central American government tweeted. On Saturday night, the Alianza F.C. and Club Deportivo FAS teams were playing a quarter-final game at the Cuscatlan stadium in San Salvador, the capital. Play was suspended after a stampede broke out in the general section of the […]

HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden invited his Japanese and South Korean counterparts for another meeting in Washington at their trilateral meeting in Hiroshima on sidelines of the Group of Seven (G7) summit on Sunday, a senior U.S. official said. “The leaders discussed how to take their trilateral cooperation to new heights”, including with new coordination in the face of North Korea’s “illicit nuclear and missile threats”, the […]

HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) – The Group of Seven (G7) rich nations signalled to Russia their readiness to stand by Ukraine for the long haul while giving President Volodymyr Zelenskiy a chance to win over countries such as Brazil and India on the last day of a summit in Japan. UKRAINE * Potential allied training programmes for Ukrainian pilots on F-16 warplanes were a message to Russia not to expect to […]

By Andreas Rinke and Trevor Hunnicutt HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) -The Group of Seven (G7) rich nations signalled to Russia their readiness to stand by Ukraine for the long haul while giving President Volodymyr Zelenskiy a chance to win over countries such as Brazil and India on the last day of a summit in Japan. Distrust of China as a trading partner and determination to help Ukraine repel Russia’s invasion were […]

By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Hari Budha Magar, the first above the knee double amputee to scale Mount Everest, said on Sunday that his ascent would raise awareness about disability. Magar, 43, climbed the 8,848-metre (29,032-foot) Everest on artificial legs on Friday and is now taking rest at the base camp, said Pravat Adhikari of the Himalayan Ski Trek company that provided logistics for him. “Gurkha veteran, Hari Budha […]

By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) – Papua New Guinea said it will sign a defence agreement with the United States, ahead of a deal with Australia and despite opposition party concerns it could upset China, because the Ukraine conflict shows the need for military capability. On Monday, the Pacific island nation will host visits by United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, New Zealand’s Chris […]

HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) – The Group of Seven (G7) rich nations signalled to Russia their readiness to stand by Ukraine for the long haul while giving President Volodymyr Zelenskiy a chance to win over countries such as Brazil and India on the last day of a summit in Japan. UKRAINE * Potential allied training programmes for Ukrainian pilots on F-16 warplanes were a message to Russia not to expect to […]

By Renee Maltezou ATHENS (Reuters) -Greece went to the polls on Sunday in a general election unlikely to produce a clear winner, with a second vote expected by July if the country’s fractious political parties fail to agree to a coalition. While opinion polls have placed the ruling conservative New Democracy party in the lead, a change to the country’s electoral system means it is likely to fall short of […]