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By Lori Ewing LIVERPOOL, England (Reuters) -Roberto Firmino scored a dramatic late equaliser in his final appearance at Anfield for Liverpool to keep the Merseyside squad’s slim chances of a top-four finish in the Premier League alive with a 1-1 draw against Aston Villa on Saturday. Firmino, who is one of four players leaving when his contract runs out, scored in the 89th minute to the delight of the crowd […]

LONDON (Reuters) -A late goal by Joel Ward rescued a 2-2 draw for Crystal Palace at Fulham on Saturday, after the hosts’ striker Aleksandar Mitrovic bagged two goals on his first start since serving an eight-match ban. Fulham have 52 points from 37 games – four behind ninth-placed Brentford – and remain 10th in the Premier League standings. The draw has snuffed out the west Londoners’ faint hopes of securing […]

By Ange Kasongo KINSHASA (Reuters) – Democratic Republic of Congo security forces fired tear gas and fought running battles in the streets of the capital Kinshasa with anti-government protesters demonstrating on Saturday over alleged irregularities in voter registration. The protesters are also angry over the rising cost of living and the prolonged insecurity in the east of the country, where armed militias and rebel groups have been carrying out attacks […]

By Martyn Herman LONDON (Reuters) – Roberto Firmino scored a late equaliser in his last home game for Liverpool to salvage a 1-1 draw for his side against Aston Villa that just about kept their hopes of a Premier League top-four finish alive on Saturday. Liverpool had won seven games in succession to make a late run for Champions League qualification but defeat by Villa would have guaranteed that Newcastle […]

HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni met on Saturday at the Group of Seven nations summit seeking to turn the page after a French minister accused Rome of mishandling an influx of migrants. French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said in early May that Meloni’s right-wing government had been unable to solve the migration problems on which she was elected and that she had […]

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Rights groups and the top U.S. justice envoy on Saturday criticised a meeting between a leading United Nations official for children and Russia’s ombudsman for children’s rights, who is wanted by the world’s permanent war crimes court. An arrest warrant was issued in March by the International Criminal Court for Maria Lvova-Belova, who is accused by the ICC’s prosecutor of the war crime of deporting hundreds of […]

By Moira Warburton and Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) -White House and Republican congressional negotiators on raising the federal $31.4 trillion debt ceiling were not expected to meet on Saturday after talks on Friday failed and as the country inched closer to the debt ceiling deadline on June 1. U.S. Representative Patrick McHenry, a Republican negotiator, said no meetings were scheduled for Saturday. Republicans leaders were “going to huddle as a […]

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -The member states of the International Criminal Court on Saturday said they are “deeply concerned” by Russia’s decision to place a court prosecutor and several judges on a wanted list. The ICC’s British prosecutor, Karim Khan, has been added to the Russian Interior Ministry’s wanted list, state-owned news agency TASS reported on Friday, citing the ministry’s database. The Presidency of the Assembly of States Parties to the ICC, […]

BOURNEMOUTH, England (Reuters) – Midfielder Casemiro scored a brilliant acrobatic volley to give Manchester United a 1-0 Premier League win at Bournemouth on Saturday that took them closer to Champions League football next season. United moved to 69 points in fourth place in the table, behind Newcastle United on goal difference. The visitors dominated the opening exchanges and went ahead in the ninth minute when Cherries defender Marcos Sensesi tried […]