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October 9, 2021 By Jorge Silva and Gibran Naiyyar Peshimam KABUL (Reuters) – Strolling casually with their machine guns in hand, Halimi and hundreds of fellow Taliban fighters enjoyed a rare day off with a visit to a popular waterside amusement park in Kabul. Friday’s day trip to the sandy shores of the capital’s Qargha […]

October 9, 2021 PARIS (Reuters) – Having to leave Barcelona came as a shock to Lionel Messi, but the Argentina forward said familiar faces have helped him to settle at Paris St Germain. The 34-year-old, who started his professional career with Barca and is their record scorer with 672 goals, joined PSG on a two-year […]

October 9, 2021 ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Pierre Gasly was fastest for AlphaTauri in a wet final practice for the Turkish Grand Prix, with Formula One championship leader Lewis Hamilton, who has a 10-place grid penalty for Sunday’s race, doing only five laps. Hamilton’s main title rival Max Verstappen, two points adrift of the Mercedes driver […]

October 9, 2021 PARIS (Reuters) – Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, who became Iran’s first president after the 1979 Islamic revolution before fleeing into exile in France, died on Saturday aged 88. He died at the Pitie-Salpetriere hospital in Paris following a long illness, his wife and children said on Bani-Sadr’s official website. Bani-Sadr had emerged from obscurity […]

October 9, 2021 (Removes extraneous letter in paragraph 2) By Abhirup Roy and Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India’s Zee Entertainment is locked in a legal battle with one of its biggest foreign investors, Invesco, after it called for ouster of the TV network’s CEO citing concerns around corporate governance. Zee has said it has […]

October 9, 2021 Logan Webb made a splashy postseason debut Friday night, striking out 10 in 7 2/3 innings and leading the host San Francisco Giants to a 4-0 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 1 of the National League Division Series. Buster Posey hit a two-run home run in the first inning […]

October 9, 2021 By Karen Lema MANILA (Reuters) – Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa used her new prominence to criticise Facebook as a threat to democracy, saying the social media giant fails to protect against the spread of hate and disinformation and is “biased against facts”. The veteran journalist and head of Philippine news […]

October 9, 2021 By Neil Jerome Morales MANILA (Reuters) – The Nobel Peace Prize for Philippine journalist Maria Ressa was hailed by many at home on Saturday as a rebuke on official attacks on the media, but there was no comment from President Rodrigo Duterte, a frequent critic of Ressa’s news site. Ressa https://ift.tt/3Dma8dB, who […]

October 9, 2021 (Reuters) – Four-time NBA champion LeBron James of the Los Angeles Lakers has set the standard for longevity in the league as the 36-year-old entered his 19th season, Golden State Warriors’ Steph Curry said. The 17-time All-Star James picked up his fourth NBA Finals MVP title last year after helping the Lakers […]

October 9, 2021 By Silvio Castellanos and Juan Medina LA PALMA, Spain (Reuters) – Buildings near the volcano on the Spanish island of La Palma were engulfed by rivers of lava early on Saturday, with the drama of the red-hot eruption intensified by the spectacle of flashes of lightning. The magma destroyed at least four […]

October 9, 2021 BERLIN (Reuters) – From flashing lights and booming speakers to sprawling stages and a Ferris wheel, Tesla’s factory near Berlin has been transformed into a festival site for a one-day county fair on Saturday, hosted by CEO Elon Musk. The fair, expected to attract tens of thousands of visitors with Brandenburg locals […]

October 9, 2021 (Reuters) – U.S. Open champion Emma Raducanu said she was disappointed but not discouraged after crashing out of Indian Wells on Friday in her first match since stunning the tennis world at Flushing Meadows last month. After dropping the first set, the 18-year-old squandered a 4-2 lead against Aliaksandra Sasnovich in the […]

October 9, 2021 (Reuters) – After reuniting with his stinky shoes and wedding ring, Andy Murray was back in business as the former world number one sealed a comfortable 6-3 6-2 win over Frenchman Adrian Mannarino in the first round of the Indian Wells tournament on Friday. Murray, who was the talk of social media […]

October 9, 2021 (Reuters) – Women’s soccer in the United States “swept a lot of bad things under the rug” to make the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) successful, former midfielder Heather O’Reilly said. The NWSL fired commissioner Lisa Baird and FIFA launched a preliminary investigation last week following a report detailing allegations of misconduct […]

October 9, 2021 SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Singapore may need as much as six months to get to a “new normal” in terms of easing restrictions and people resuming their previous routines in the COVID-19 pandemic, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Saturday. “It will take us at least three months, and perhaps as long […]

October 9, 2021 By Jan Wolfe (Reuters) -The White House on Friday formally blocked an attempt by Donald Trump to withhold documents from Congress related to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol when he was U.S. president. Press secretary Jen Psaki said President Joe Biden had authorized the National Archives, a government agency that […]

October 9, 2021 LIMA (Reuters) – Peru’s new prime minister Mirtha Vasquez said redrafting the country’s pro-market constitution is not currently a priority for the government, despite it having been a key campaign promise. “This government is not proposing (to change the constitution) and won’t propose that overnight,” Vasquez said during one of her first […]

October 9, 2021 (Reuters) – Premier League clubs have reached out to the league with complaints about Newcastle United’s takeover by a Saudi Arabia-led consortium and are pushing for an emergency meeting next week, the Guardian newspaper https://ift.tt/3liN3Cg reported. The Premier League announced on Thursday that Newcastle had been sold to a group consisting of […]

October 9, 2021 (Reuters) – Emma Raducanu stumbled in her first match since winning the U.S. Open last month, falling 6-2 6-4 to Aliaksandra Sasnovich in the second round of the Indian Wells tennis tournament on Friday. The 18-year-old British sensation had an aura of invincibility at Flushing Meadows, where the tournament qualifier did not […]

October 9, 2021 BEIJING (Reuters) -China has added cryptocurrency mining to a draft list of industries in which investment is restricted or prohibited, although it reduced the number of sectors on the list overall, a document released by the state planner showed on Friday. The “negative list” details sectors and industries that are off-limits to […]