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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 […]

September 11, 2021 BARCELONA (Reuters) – Thousands of Catalans chanted, sang and waved flags as they marched through Barcelona on Saturday, calling for the region’s independence from Spain. The march, organised by the grassroots Assemblea Nacional Catalana [ANC], was the first since Spain’s government pardoned nine Catalan separatist leaders who had been jailed for their […]

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here.  Oper8r, built by Winter Mead and Welly Sculley, wants to help new entrants in the VC world scale. The accelerator launched last year as a “Y Combinator for emerging fund managers,” built […]

September 11, 2021 By Gianluca Semeraro and Claudia Cristoferi MILAN (Reuters) -Two leading Generali investors are ready to push to replace current CEO Philippe Donnet if the top Italian insurer’s board fails to reach an accord to keep him in the job, three sources close to the matter said. The Trieste-based insurer is due to […]

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices alone. […]

September 11, 2021 (Reuters) – Italy’s Francesco Laporta shot three birdies and an eagle en route to a solid three-under 69 that gave him a one-shot lead after the third round of the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth on Saturday. Laporta began in third place at 11-under and quickly seized the lead, hitting a brilliant […]

September 11, 2021 MADRID (Reuters) – Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti defended his club on Saturday following criticism from UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin this week. Ceferin told German publication Der Spiegel that he would not mind if Real Madrid, Barcelona and Juventus – the three remaining clubs in the breakaway Super League project – were […]

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