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By Kate Holton and Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) – Charles III will be crowned king on Saturday in Britain’s biggest ceremonial event for seven decades, a sumptuous display of pageantry dating back 1,000 years. Charles succeeded his mother Queen Elizabeth when she died last September and at 74, he will become the oldest British monarch to have the 360-year-old St Edward’s Crown placed on his head as he sits upon […]

By Steve Keating MIAMI (Reuters) -Red Bull’s championship leader Max Verstappen lapped fastest while Charles Leclerc crashed his Ferrari into the barriers in second practice for the Miami Formula One Grand Prix on Friday. Leclerc went off at turn eight, the car snapping and locking up as it went nose first into the barriers and wrecked the front suspension. The incident brought out the red flags with 10 minutes remaining, […]

By Saeed Azhar, David French and Tatiana Bautzer NEW YORK (Reuters) – The government-brokered purchases of First Republic, Signature and Silicon Valley banks have created a vicious cycle in which troubled lenders need to fail — and get government assistance — before buyers will step up, industry sources say. The latest case in point: The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC) chose JPMorgan Chase & Co as the winning bidder in […]

LONDON (Reuters) – All eyes will be on the British royal family this weekend as they are joined by about 100 heads of state and global dignitaries for the coronation of King Charles. Below are details on the leading members of the royal family, their position in the line of succession and what they are expected to do during the ceremony. KING CHARLES King Charles became monarch of the United […]

(Reuters) – Russia’s Wagner threatens to leave the eastern city of Bakhmut, but Ukraine says the mercenaries are reinforcing positions from other parts of the front to try to seize it before Moscow marks World War Two Victory Day next week. WAGNER GROUP * Standing in a field of corpses, Russian Wagner Group boss Yevgeny Prigozhin published an expletive-ridden video personally blaming top defence chiefs for losses suffered by his […]

Paraguay’s president-elect, Santiago Pena, said on Friday that he would continue to strengthen his country’s “historic ties” with Taiwan following a call with his counterpart there after winning Sunday’s election. The countries’ diplomatic relations of more than six decades had been in the spotlight before Sunday’s election, with opposition candidate Efrain Alegre telling Reuters he would seek to move his country closer to China to boost agricultural ties. Paraguay is […]

ASUNCION (Reuters) -Paraguayo Cubas, who placed third in Paraguay’s presidential elections, has been arrested following post-election protests, authorities said on Friday. Cubas led protests to dispute Sunday’s election results and call for a recount, though international organizations said there was no reason to doubt the integrity of the vote. Cubas has been charged with “disrupting the peace” and other crimes, according to an arrest warrant issued by the attorney general’s […]

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan opposition party Voluntad Popular on Friday named a new candidate for a key presidential primary in October, replacing formerly anti-government leader Juan Guaido who left Venezuela unexpectedly in late April. At a news conference, Voluntad Popular named political coordinator Freddy Superlano, a 46-year-old engineer and critic of President Nicolas Maduro, as its nominee, explaining Guaido could not represent the party from “exile.” Voluntad Popular member Desiree […]

(Reuters) – Engineers have reduced the risk of a dam bursting and damaging a large Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station in Ukraine, a senior Russian official was quoted as saying by TASS news agency on Friday. Renat Karchaa, an adviser to the general director of energy engineering firm Rosenergoatom, said specialists had begun discharging water from the Kakhovka hydroelectric dam on the Dnipro River in southern Ukraine, according to TASS. […]