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(Reuters) – Wrexham’s Hollywood owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney ditched the star-studded Met Gala to join the Welsh soccer club’s open-top bus victory parade on Tuesday as they celebrated their promotion to the English Football League. Wrexham secured a fairytale return to the EFL following a 15-year absence last month after beating Boreham Wood 3-1 to win the National League with a game to spare. The dollop of Hollywood […]

(Reuters) – Cristiano Ronaldo became the world’s highest-paid athlete after his move to Saudi Arabian side Al-Nassr nearly doubled his annual playing salary while Paris St Germain duo Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappe round off the top three, according to Forbes. Ronaldo, who joined the Saudi soccer club on a deal until 2025 after leaving Manchester United last year, earned $136 million with Forbes saying his annual playing salary went […]

By Scott DiSavino NEW YORK (Reuters) -Oil prices sank about 5% to a five-week low on Tuesday on concerns about the economy, as U.S. politicians discuss ways to avoid a debt default and investors prepare for another U.S. rate hike this week. Brent futures fell $3.76, or 4.7%, to $75.55 a barrel by 1:47 p.m. EDT (1747 GMT), while U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude fell $3.79, or 5.0%, to […]

(This May 1 story has been refiled to fix a typographical error in paragraph 17) By Maggie Michael ARQEEN, Egypt (Reuters) – Eight months pregnant, Malaz Omar left behind everything to flee with her husband, two toddlers and an elderly aunt from the fighting that has swept across Sudan’s capital for more than two weeks. By the time the 34-year-old arrived in Egypt she hadn’t eaten or showered for four […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – White House senior adviser John Podesta said Toyota Motor Corp is “fully committed” to electric vehicles after he met recently with senior company officials. Podesta told Reuters reporters and editors in a roundtable meeting on Tuesday the Japanese automaker “had been the laggard” but was now committed to electric vehicles. “I think they’re going to stick with plug-in hybrids for a while, maybe longer than some of […]

By Manya Saini and Niket Nishant (Reuters) -Iconic activist investor Carl Icahn was on Tuesday hit with a challenge of his own from a prominent short-seller, who alleged the billionaire’s conglomerate is substantially overvalued, sending shares of a company owned by him plunging. Icahn Enterprises shares slumped 20% to a three-year low in their busiest day ever after Hindenburg Research said it was shorting the stock, charging the company was […]

(Fixes typo in paragraph 17) By Maggie Michael ARQEEN, Egypt (Reuters) -Eight months pregnant, Malaz Omar left behind everything to flee with her husband, two toddlers and an elderly aunt from the fighting that has swept across Sudan’s capital for more than two weeks. By the time the 34-year-old arrived in Egypt she hadn’t eaten or showered for four days, passing through the Qustul border crossing where people slept on […]

(Reuters) – Ukraine’s military vowed not to give up the eastern city of Bakhmut as it prepares to launch a counteroffensive against occupying Russian forces. FIGHTING * The Kremlin rejected as “plucked from thin air” a U.S. assessment of 100,000 Russian military casualties in Ukraine in the last five months, including more than 20,000 deaths. * Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said weapons production and arms supply to the front […]

By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) -The Brazilian government objected on Tuesday to Google LLC campaigning against an internet regulation bill to crack down on fake news and ordered the U.S. company to change a link on its search engine in Brazil. The proposed law to penalize firms for not reporting fake news was due to be voted on in the lower house of Congress later on Tuesday but its fate […]