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September 12, 2021 By Tim McLaughlin LAWRENCE, Mass. (Reuters) – U.S. Marine Sergeant Johanny Rosario returned to her hometown in Massachusetts in a casket on Saturday, one of the last American soldiers killed in Afghanistan during a war set in motion exactly two decades ago by the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. Several hundred people gathered near […]

September 11, 2021 CANBERRA (Reuters) – Australia’s second most populous state said on Sunday daily COVID-19 infections fell slightly. Victoria state said it recorded 392 COVID-19 infections in the past 24 hours, down slightly on the 450 cases recorded one day earlier. Victoria state is struggling to contain an outbreak of the highly contagious Delta […]

September 11, 2021 (Reuters) – List of U.S. Open women’s singles champions since tennis turned professional in 1968: 2021 – Emma Raducanu (Britain) v Leylah Fernandez (Canada) 6-4 6-3 2020 – Naomi Osaka (Japan) beat Victoria Azarenka (Belarus) 1-6 6-3 6-3 2019 – Bianca Andreescu (Canada) beat Serena Williams (U.S.) 6-3 7-5 2018 – Osaka […]

September 11, 2021 (Reuters) – Factbox on Britain’s Emma Raducanu, who beat Canada’s Leylah Fernandez 6-4 6-3 in the U.S. Open final on Saturday to win her first Grand Slam title: Age: 18 Nation: Britain WTA ranking: 150 Seeding: Unseeded Grand Slam titles: 1 (U.S. Open 2021) ROAD TO FINAL First round: beat Stefanie Voegele […]

September 11, 2021 By Steve Keating NEW YORK (Reuters) – Britain’s Emma Raducanu completed a Grand Slam fairytale on Saturday by beating Canadian Leylah Fernandez 6-4 6-3 in the battle of the teens to be crowned U.S. Open champion. The 18-year-old became the first ever qualifier to win a Grand Slam title and the first […]

September 11, 2021 PARIS (Reuters) – The Taliban are lying and France will not have any relationship with its newly-formed government, Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said late on Saturday before heading for talks in Qatar on Sunday to discuss future evacuations from Afghanistan. “They said they would let some foreigners and Afghans leave freely […]

September 11, 2021 Former Minnesota Vikings center Mick Tingelhoff, who was best known for playing in every game of his 17-year NFL career, has died. He was 81. The Vikings did not reveal a cause of death in announcing the Pro Football Hall of Famer’s passing on Saturday. A six-time Pro Bowler and five-time All-Pro, […]

September 11, 2021 TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisia’s President Kais Saied on Saturday indicated he was preparing to change the country’s constitution, but said he would only do so using existing constitutional means, seven weeks after he seized powers in moves his foes called a coup. Speaking live on television in a central Tunis boulevard, Saied […]

September 11, 2021 LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to address parliament and hold a news conference on Tuesday about how to manage COVID-19 through the winter, a BBC reporter said on Saturday. “The prime minister is expected to address both parliament and a news conference on Tuesday about the government’s […]

September 11, 2021 By Steve Keating NEW YORK (Reuters) – Britain’s Joe Salisbury and American Desirae Krawczyk reunited to cap brilliant Grand Slam campaigns on Saturday beating Mexico’s Giuliana Olmos and El Salvador’s Marcelo Arevalo 7-5 6-2 to lift the U.S. Open mixed doubles title. Krawczyk bagged her third consecutive Grand Slam mixed doubles title, […]

September 11, 2021 PARIS (Reuters) – Lionel Messi and Neymar will be in Paris St Germain’s squad for their Champions League opening game against Club Brugge on Wednesday after missing this weekend’s Ligue 1 action, coach Mauricio Pochettino said on Saturday. The duo was not involved in Saturday’s 4-0 crushing of promoted Clermont at home […]

September 11, 2021 By Alan Baldwin (Reuters) – Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff dismissed Formula One’s experimental Saturday sprint format as ‘not fish, not meat’ and said it was not doing much for the sport either. The 100km qualifying race was trialled for the second time at the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, but drivers […]

September 11, 2021 By Simon Evans MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) – Two goals from returning hero Cristiano Ronaldo sent Manchester United joint top of the Premier League after early season pace-setters Tottenham Hotspur fell to a surprise 3-0 loss at Crystal Palace. Champions Manchester City made it three wins out of four with a 1-0 win […]

September 11, 2021 MANCHESTER (Reuters) – Cristiano Ronaldo has scored nearly 800 goals for club and country and won numerous trophies in a 19-year carer but the Portuguese forward admitted having butterflies in his stomach ahead of his second debut at Manchester United on Saturday. Ronaldo, who scored 118 goals for United during his first […]

September 11, 2021 DUBAI (Reuters) – The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will have no access to footage captured by surveillance cameras at Iranian nuclear sites, Iran’s state-run Press TV channel said on Twitter on Saturday. The channel added that an “informed source rejects reports suggesting that Iran may reconsider (its) decision on IAEA access […]

September 11, 2021 MADRID (Reuters) – Hundreds of people gathered in central Madrid on Saturday to call for better protection for LGBT rights after a series of homophobic attacks that have shocked Spain in recent months. People waved rainbow flags and carried banners reading: “justice”, “touch one of us, touch us all”, “we are being […]

September 11, 2021 LONDON (Reuters) – Chelsea beat Aston Villa 3-0 on Saturday for their 600th Premier League victory to move joint top of the standings alongside Manchester United after Romelu Lukaku and Mateo Kovacic scored for the first time at Stamford Bridge. Lukaku, who previously played for United, Everton and West Bromwich Albion, had […]

September 11, 2021 VENICE (Reuters) – “Happening” (L’événement), a hard-hitting French drama about illegal abortion in the 1960s, won the Golden Lion award for best film at the Venice festival on Saturday. The runner-up Grand Jury prize went to Italian director Paolo Sorrentino for “The Hand of God”, his deeply personal film about losing his […]

September 11, 2021 By Dilara Senkaya ISTANBUL (Reuters) – More than 2,000 Turks demonstrated in Istanbul on Saturday against official coronavirus-related mandates including vaccinations, tests and masks, responding to new government measures and an inoculation push. In Turkey’s largest such protest, mostly maskless people shouted slogans, held placards and Turkish flags, and sang songs in […]

September 11, 2021 ATHENS (Reuters) – Greek police fired tear gas and water canon on Saturday to break up a demonstration of thousands of people protesting against mandatory coronavirus vaccinations. Authorities said protesters hurled flares at police in Greece’s second-biggest city of Thessaloniki, who blocked them from trying to reach the area where Prime Minister […]