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By Streisand Neto LONDON, June 10 (Reuters) – With hot weather due and memories fresh of the scorching 2025 Club World Cup, FIFA has for the first time mandated three-minute hydration breaks in each half for all 104 matches of the World Cup starting this week in the U.S., Mexico and Canada. While players replenish and viewers perhaps grab some snacks, broadcasters have a big new opportunity to give advertisers […]

MOSCOW, June 10 (Reuters) – Russian investigators said on Wednesday that they had arrested at least two suspects behind a car bombing in Moscow, detaining teenagers who the domestic security service said were convinced to plant the bomb. There were two car bombs on Tuesday in Moscow – one which detonated in the morning in eastern Moscow and one which was identified by security services in southwestern Moscow. Russia’s state […]

June 10 (Reuters) – A security oversight leaked the passport details of every player in the Argentina squad for Tuesday’s pre-World Cup warm-up friendly against Iceland, including Lionel Messi, media reports said. The passport numbers, listed on the official team sheet, should have been blurred before being released to the media and the public. But in Alabama’s Jordan-Hare Stadium, they were circulated without redaction. Reuters has contacted the Argentinian Football […]

By Maggie Fick, Bhanvi Satija and Patricia Weiss LONDON/FRANKFURT, June 10 (Reuters) – Pfizer is reviewing the timing and scope of planned investments in Germany, CEO Albert Bourla said in a letter to Chancellor Friedrich Merz, citing the government’s policy proposals that would lower drug prices. The letter, dated June 9 and seen by Reuters on Wednesday, was first reported by German business newspaper Handelsblatt. Bourla wrote that the proposals […]

By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS, June 10 (Reuters) – Paramount Skydance Corp’s $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros Discovery, backed by Gulf sovereign wealth funds, is under European Union subsidy scrutiny, according to a European Commission filing. The U.S. entertainment giant sought EU approval under its Foreign Subsidies Regulation, which targets unfair foreign state aid, on Tuesday. The Commission, which acts as the EU competition enforcer, will decide by July […]

By Mateusz Rabiega and Jakob Van Calster June 10 (Reuters) – ING launched a new subscription-based banking model for clients in the Netherlands on Wednesday, in a move aimed at diversifying income streams and protecting its market share. The Dutch-based bank expects the model, which is to be rolled out across its markets by mid-2027, to deliver a “meaningful” contribution to its fee income, Global Head for Private Individuals Sali […]

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(SRN NEWS)- (  )  Some countries are conducting a war on churches.  According to a new report from Global Christian Relief, the government of Rwanda is shutting down churches at a greater rate than any other nation on earth.  About 7,700 of them have been closed over the past two years as the Rwandan government seeks greater restrictions on freedom of religion.  Number two on the GCR list is Mozambique where Muslim radicals […]

(SRN NEWS)- It comes from the Pew Research Center and it examines the faith group that nearly a quarter of the population belongs to.  The study finds that the number of Catholics in the U.S. is declining and that more people are leaving Catholicism for Protestant denominations than the other way around.  Amongst those Americans who convert to the Catholic faith, the most common reason for doing so is that they […]