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By Ismail Shakil OTTAWA (Reuters) – Authorities in Canada’s main oil-producing province of Alberta have closed some parks and campgrounds and are urging residents to avoid activities that could enrage wildfires to avoid straining firefighting resources over the holiday weekend. Traditionally, residents spend the Victoria Day weekend outside as families take advantage of the warmer weather to go camping or enjoy other outdoor activities. The long weekend in May has […]

ALKMAAR, Netherlands (Reuters) -The coach and players of Dutch club AZ Alkmaar condemned sections of their own support who attacked family and friends of the West Ham United squad celebrating their success in Thursday’s Europa Conference League semi-final. Home supporters broke through a fence and attacked the West Ham contingent seated in a reserved section behind their own team’s dugout at the AZ Stadium. A brawl ensued in which West […]

By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Wall Street, small businesses and potential homebuyers may all breath a sigh of relief if the Federal Reserve chooses not to raise interest rates at its policy meeting next month, as many traders and analysts expect. But U.S. central bank officials are not only still on the fence about a pause in their 14-month tightening cycle, they are only starting to hash out whether […]

(Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Friday that the “last remnants” of arms control agreements between Russia and the United States were disappearing, after a group of U.S. Republican lawmakers on Thursday introduced a bill to scrap the New START agreement on nuclear arms. Russian President Vladimir Putin suspended Russia’s participation in New START earlier this year. (Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Mark Trevelyan) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

DUBAI (Reuters) – Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy landed on Friday in Jeddah to attend an Arab League summit, Saudi-owned al-Hadath TV reported. Zelenskiy arrived on a French government plane. He is also due to attend the G7 leaders’ summit in the Japanese city of Hiroshima this weekend. Gulf states have tried to remain neutral in the Ukraine conflict despite Western pressure on Gulf oil producers to help isolate Russia, a […]

SYDNEY (Reuters) -A 95-year-old grandmother who Australian police tasered at a retirement home is in critical condition as the homicide squad join a high-profile investigation into the incident, police said on Friday. Police were called to the Yallambee aged care home in Cooma, about 300 km (186 miles) southwest of Sydney, on Wednesday after staff found resident, Clare Nowland, outside her room holding a steak-knife, New South Wales police assistant […]

By Mark Gleeson JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Africa will employ a single stage of World Cup qualification for the next finals in 2026, doing away with three rounds previously for a format that will take almost two years to complete. The continent will have nine places at the expanded 48-team tournament in North America and have decided on a format of nine groups, where the winner alone will qualify for the […]

SEOUL (Reuters) – Defectors who fled North Korea early this month decided to do so because of the country’s strict COVID-19 controls, South Korea’s spy agency said on Friday. The group of North Koreans, nearly 10 people, crossed the border by ship on the night of May 6, crossing the Northern Limit Line in the Yellow Sea, news agency Yonhap reported. “The defectors testified that they used to watch South […]

By Katya Golubkova and John Irish HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will attend the Group of Seven (G7) Hiroshima summit this weekend, Ukrainian and Western officials said, putting fresh pressure on Russia against the backdrop of a city synonymous with the horrors of nuclear war. Zelenskiy will attend on Sunday, two officials involved in the G7 summit said, declining to be identified because of the sensitivity of […]