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(Reuters) – German Nico Denz won stage 14 of the Giro d’Italia on Saturday with another powerful sprint to the finish line of the rain-soaked 193km ride from Sierre to Cassano Magnago, while France’s Bruno Armirail seized the leader’s maglia rosa jersey. Bora-Hansgrohe’s Denz launched his sprint with Israel-PremierTech’s Gee and Alberto Bettiol in hot pursuit and narrowly claimed his second stage victory after winning stage 12 this week. Gee […]

BERLIN (Reuters) – Union Berlin slumped to a 4-2 loss at Hoffenheim on Saturday to require victory on the last Bundesliga matchday to secure what would be a sensational Champions League spot for next season as fellow Berlin club Hertha were relegated. Union, this season’s surprise team, have only themselves to blame for the defeat, gifting the first two goals to the hosts and remain fourth on 59 points, as […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -White House and Republican congressional negotiators on raising the federal $31.4 trillion debt ceiling were quiet on Saturday after meetings on Friday failed and President Joe Biden said in Japan he believed a default could be avoided. No meetings were scheduled for Saturday, Punchbowl News said on Twitter, citing multiple sources. A second meeting broke up Friday with no progress cited by either side and with negotiators saying […]

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 […]

HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he had invited India to join Ukraine’s peace formula during his talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the Group of Seven (G7) summit on Saturday in Japan. Zelenskiy said on the Telegram messaging app that the two had also discussed Ukraine’s needs in mobile hospitals and removing land mines during their first face-to-face meeting since Russia invaded Ukraine […]

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The member states of the International Criminal Court on Saturday said Russia’s placing of the court’s prosecutor and several judges on a wanted list is deeply concerning and deplorable. 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 comments came from the presidency of the Assembly of States […]

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 the 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 […]

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 the 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 […]

(Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday that decisions taken by the Group of Seven countries at their summit in Japan were aimed at the “double containment” of Russia and China. Addressing a televised conference, Lavrov reiterated Russia’s claim that the West is using Ukraine as tool to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia. The United States and its allies reject that narrative, saying they are helping […]