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(Reuters) – Two-time Tour de France champion Tadej Pogacar said he was lucky to suffer only a fractured wrist when he crashed out of the Liege-Bastogne-Liege race in Belgium on Sunday. Slovenian Pogacar, who won the event in 2021, underwent surgery in Genk to treat a scaphoid fracture after being involved in a crash with EF Education–EasyPost’s Mikkel Honore. UAE Team Emirates’ medical director Adrian Rotunno said his recovery would […]

(Reuters) – North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum on Monday signed into law a bill that would ban most abortions, creating an exception for rape and incest victims but only during the first six weeks of pregnancy. The law, which makes it a felony for a doctor to perform an abortion, provides other exceptions including to save the life of the mother or in cases where her health is at serious […]

By Rupam Jain NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Ranika Jaiswal’s family in Varanasi has boasted a string of officials in India’s ruling BJP party over the last four decades. Now she wants a piece of the action. “Three generations of my family, all men, have been with the party. But now it’s changing – as a woman I am also equally invested,” said the 48-year-old, who is seeking the support of […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The executive board of the International Monetary Fund on Monday approved the first review of Tanzania’s three-year extended credit facility, allowing immediate disbursement of about $153 million in budgetary support, the IMF said in a statement. The IMF said Tanzania’s economic reform program is progressing well in a challenging global economic environment, but authorities should work to boost domestic revenues, while stepping up structural reforms to streamline bureaucracy […]

By Rupam Jain NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Ranika Jaiswal’s family in Varanasi has boasted a string of officials in India’s ruling BJP party over the last four decades. Now she wants a piece of the action. “Three generations of my family, all men, have been with the party. But now it’s changing – as a woman I am also equally invested,” said the 48-year-old, who is seeking the support of […]

By Xie Yu HONG KONG (Reuters) – Stocks fell broadly, while the U.S. dollar also weakened early on Tuesday, as investors weigh corporate earnings and economic growth outlooks in a busy week. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was down 0.7% by 0220 GMT. Hong Kong’s benchmark edged down 1.2%, while mainland stocks lost 0.7%. Markets in Australia and New Zealand are shut for a holiday. Japan’s benchmark […]

By Xie Yu HONG KONG (Reuters) – Stocks fell broadly, while the U.S. dollar also weakened early on Tuesday, as investors weigh corporate earnings and economic growth outlooks in a busy week. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was down 0.7% by 0220 GMT. Hong Kong’s benchmark edged down 1.2%, while mainland stocks lost 0.7%. Markets in Australia and New Zealand are shut for a holiday. Japan’s benchmark […]

By Choonsik Yoo and Jihoon Lee SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea’s heavily trade-reliant economy barely averted a recession posting slim growth in the first quarter, but the outlook remained clouded by weak exports due to a cooling global economy, even with China’s reopening. South Korea’s gross domestic product (GDP) in the first quarter expanded by 0.3% over the previous three-month period, official advance estimates showed on Tuesday, compared with a median […]

LIMA (Reuters) – Peruvian archaeologists unearthed a more than 1,000-year-old mummy on the outskirts of the modern capital on Monday, in the latest discovery dating back to pre-Inca times. The mummy was probably an adolescent and found in an underground tomb wrapped in a funerary bundle, along with ceramics and rope and including bits of skin and hair. The mummified adolescent was found in a “good state of conservation,” said […]