Town Hall News

By John Irish and Sakura Murakami HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) -Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskiy held talks with India’s Narendra Modi on Saturday and was due to meet other “Global South” leaders at a Group of Seven (G7) summit aimed at broadening support for his country in its war against Russia. The three-day G7 meeting in the Japanese city of Hiroshima has already agreed new sanctions on Russia and measures to stand up […]

By David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States will sign new strategic pacts with the Pacific island states of Palau and Micronesia early next week and hopes to do so with the Marshall islands in coming weeks, the U.S. presidential envoy negotiating the deals said. Joseph Yun told Reuters the Palau agreement would be formally signed in the presence of U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Palau President […]

(Reuters) -Russia claimed on Saturday to have fully captured the smashed eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, which if true would mark an end to the longest and bloodiest battle of the 15-month war. The assault on the largely levelled city was led by troops from the Wagner Group of mercenaries, whose leader Yevgeny Prigozhin said earlier in the day that his troops had finally pushed the Ukrainians out of the […]

CAIRO/DUBAI (Reuters) -Sudan’s warring factions signed an agreement late on Saturday for a seven-day ceasefire as fighting that has plunged the country into chaos and displaced more than a million entered its sixth week. The ceasefire will take effect at 9:45 p.m. Khartoum time (1945 GMT) on Monday, the sponsors of the talks, the United States and Saudi Arabia, said in a joint statement. Numerous previous ceasefire agreements were violated. […]

By Steve Keating ROCHESTER, New York (Reuters) -Canada’s Corey Conners was holding steady at the top of the PGA Championship leaderboard midway through a soggy third round on Saturday, as challengers stalled in the rain. Conners started a grey, rainy day at Oak Hill sharing top spot with world number two Scottie Scheffler and Norway’s Viktor Hovland but with nine to play finds himself alone two clear of the pack […]

By Andrew Cawthorne NOTTINGHAM, England (Reuters) – Arsenal’s last-flickering hopes of winning the Premier League were extinguished on Saturday by Nottingham Forest, whose 1-0 win courtesy of Taiwo Awoniyi secured their top-flight status. Eight points clear at the top just two months ago, Mikel Arteta’s team have had a dismal end to the season, with their latest defeat ensuring what had become an inevitable-looking consecutive title for Manchester City. “I […]

(Reuters) -Russia claimed on Saturday to have fully captured the smashed eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, which if true would mark an end to the longest and bloodiest battle of the 15-month war. The assault on the largely levelled city was led by troops from the Wagner Group of mercenaries, whose leader Yevgeny Prigozhin said earlier in the day that his troops had finally pushed the Ukrainians out of the […]

By Steve Keating ROCHESTER, New York (Reuters) -Canada’s Corey Conners was holding steady at the top of the PGA Championship leaderboard midway through a soggy third round on Saturday, as challengers stalled in the rain. Conners started a grey, rainy day at Oak Hill sharing top spot with world number two Scottie Scheffler and Norway’s Viktor Hovland but with nine to play finds himself alone two clear of the pack […]

(Reuters) -Russian troops have taken control of the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, the Russian defence ministry said on Saturday, which if true would mark an end to a ferocious and bloody battle that raged for months. The head of the Wagner Group of Russian mercenaries reported the capture of Bakhmut earlier in the day. Russia refers to the city by its Soviet-era name of Artyomovsk. “As a result of […]