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Paraguay’s president-elect, Santiago Peña, said on Friday that he would continue to strengthen his country’s “historic ties” with Taiwan following a call with his counterpart there after he winning the 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 […]

By Antonio Denti and Gabriele Pileri NAPLES (Reuters) -Dozens of revellers were injured in wild celebrations in the southern Italian city of Naples after its soccer team became Serie A champions for the first time in 33 years, local officials said on Friday. Mass street partying, punctuated by fireworks, flares, horns and firecrackers, began late on Thursday after the Napoli team secured the “Scudetto” title with a 1-1 draw away […]

By Antonio Denti and Gabriele Pileri NAPLES (Reuters) -Dozens of revellers were injured in wild celebrations in the southern Italian city of Naples after its soccer team became Serie A champions for the first time in 33 years, local officials said on Friday. Mass street partying, punctuated by fireworks, flares, horns and firecrackers, began late on Thursday after the Napoli team secured the “Scudetto” title with a 1-1 draw away […]

(Reuters) – Lionel Messi apologised to Paris St Germain and his team mates on Friday after being suspended for making a trip to Saudi Arabia, missing a training session as a result. French media reported that Messi was suspended for two weeks after an unauthorised trip to Saudi Arabia when he was supposed to train with the squad following the Ligue 1 leaders’ 3-1 defeat at home to Lorient on […]

By Siddharth Cavale NEW YORK (Reuters) – A new analysis of Walmart’s pricing strategy reveals it has consistently kept grocery prices lower than competitors while generally hiking prices at rates far below U.S. inflation, even while the firm now faces allegations of using its clout to gain unfair advantages over rivals. Data analytics firm Dataweave compared the prices of 589 name-brand products in 34 categories, including coffee, soup, cereals, baking […]

(Reuters) – Skinner, the bay colt trained by John Shirreffs, has become the fourth horse scratched from Saturday’s Kentucky Derby, bringing the field for the first leg of U.S. thoroughbred racing’s Triple Crown down to 19, Churchill Downs said on Friday. C R K Stable’s Skinner was scratched because of an elevated temperature after having galloped a mile strongly during a training session early on Friday. Skinner was a fast-closing […]

(Reuters) – The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued its largest ever award of nearly $279 million to a whistleblower whose information helped the regulator’s enforcement action, it said on Friday. The regulator did not disclose the case concerned in its statement. The award is more than double the $114 million that it had issued in October 2020. “As this award shows, there is a significant incentive for […]

By Lawrence White and Iain Withers BIRMINGHAM, England (Reuters) -HSBC soundly defeated a bid to break-up the bank and spin-out its lucrative Asian business at its annual investor meeting in Birmingham in England on Friday, but still faced a rebellion against its board and pay for top bosses. Europe’s biggest bank had faced proposals submitted by Hong Kong-based individual investor Ken Lui and backed by its biggest Asian shareholder Ping […]

By Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine said on Friday Russia was bringing Wagner mercenary fighters from other parts of the front line to fight in Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine, and that Moscow wanted to capture the city in time for Victory Day celebrations next week. Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin said his mercenary forces would pull out of Bakhmut on May 10 because of heavy losses and inadequate ammunition supplies. […]