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RIYADH (Reuters) – Representatives of Sudan’s warring parties will resume talks on Sunday on how to implement plans to deliver humanitarian aid and remove troops from civilian areas, a senior Saudi diplomat said. The parties will remain in the Saudi Red Sea city of Jeddah to start the next phase of the negotiations after agreeing on Thursday to the plan to protect civilians, the diplomat said on Saturday. The kingdom […]

By Ruma Paul DHAKA (Reuters) – A powerful storm packing winds of up to 175 kph (109 miles) barrelled towards the coasts of eastern Bangladesh and Myanmar on Saturday, threatening around a million Rohingya refugees and others living in low-lying areas. After brewing in the Bay of Bengal for days, Cyclone Mocha is likely to intensify further and make landfall between Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh and Myanmar on Sunday, Bangladesh […]

GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Palestinian militants in Gaza resumed rocket fire on Israel early on Saturday after Israeli aircraft bombed Islamic Jihad targets in the enclave overnight, as fighting entered a fifth day. Egypt has been trying to mediate a truce to the flare-up, which has so far left at least 33 Palestinians and one Israeli dead. The violence extends more than a year of resurgent Israeli-Palestinian violence that has killed […]

(Reuters) – A former head of engineering at Bytedance in the United States has said the company discharged him after he voiced concern to management that it was taking user content from other platforms, mainly Instagram and Snapchat. The dispute comes at a time when ByteDance-owned app TikTok faces growing calls for a nationwide ban from some U.S. lawmakers regarding concerns about potential Chinese government influence over it. Yintao “Roger” […]

By Christian Kraemer and Leika Kihara NIIGATA, Japan (Reuters) -Finance leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) rich nations warned of heightening global economic uncertainty on Saturday as they wrapped up a three-day meeting overshadowed by a U.S. debt ceiling stalemate and fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. G7 central bank chiefs also vowed to combat “elevated” inflation and ensure expectations on future price moves remained well-anchored, a sign many […]

By Andrea Shalal NIIGATA, Japan (Reuters) – British finance minister Jeremy Hunt said on Saturday it would be “absolutely devastating” if the United States failed to reach agreement to raise its debt ceiling and had its gross domestic product “knocked off track”. Hunt told reporters that Group of Seven (G7) finance chiefs in Japan had “very frank and open discussions” about the challenges they face, including banking regulation and the […]

GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Palestinian militants in Gaza resumed rocket fire on Israel early on Saturday after Israeli aircraft bombed Islamic Jihad targets in the enclave overnight, as fighting entered a fifth day. Egypt has been trying to mediate a truce to the flare-up, which has so far left at least 33 Palestinians and one Israeli dead. The violence extends more than a year of resurgent Israeli-Palestinian violence that has killed […]

By Amy Tennery (Reuters) – Brittney Griner played with her Phoenix Mercury for the first time since 2021 on Friday, taking the court far sooner than she expected for their preseason game against the Los Angeles Sparks, after nearly 10 months of detention in Russia. The two-time Olympic gold medalist was released from a Russian penal colony in a high-profile prisoner exchange with the United States late last year after […]

GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Palestinian militants in Gaza resumed rocket fire on Israel early on Saturday after Israeli aircraft bombed Islamic Jihad targets in the enclave overnight, as fighting entered a fifth day. Egypt has been trying to mediate a truce to the flare-up, which has so far left at least 33 Palestinians and one Israeli dead. The violence extends more than a year of resurgent Israeli-Palestinian violence that has killed […]