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September 28, 2021 (Reuters) – World number one Ash Barty has withdrawn from next month’s WTA 1000 tournament at Indian Wells, the tournament said on Monday, casting doubts on whether her 2021 season is over. Wimbledon champion Barty last played at the U.S. Open where she was knocked out in the third round. Barty’s withdrawal […]

September 28, 2021 By Nia Williams and Rod Nickel CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) – Premier Jason Kenney promised Albertans the “best summer ever” when he lifted most COVID-19 public health restrictions on July 1, but a surge in infections has overwhelmed the province’s hospitals and left him fighting to save his political career. The western Canadian […]

September 28, 2021 MADRID (Reuters) – The Bank of Spain will have to update its latest economic forecasts following the sharp downward revision by the Spanish statistics institute, the central bank governor Pablo Hernandez de Cos said on Tuesday. Spain’s second quarter gross domestic growth was revised to 1.1% down from an original 2.8%, official […]

September 28, 2021 BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s central bank governor Yi Gang said China will extend the maintenance of normal monetary policy for as long as possible, and that the yield curve can also maintain a normal and upward sloping shape. China’s potential economic growth rate is still expected to remain in the range of […]

September 28, 2021 DUBAI (Reuters) – S&P Global Ratings on Tuesday affirmed Saudi Arabia’s A- (minus) credit rating with a stable outlook, expecting a rebound in growth through 2024 driven by higher oil prices, eased OPEC production quotas and a large vaccine rollout in the kingdom. After the COVID-19 pandemic weighed on the economy, Saudi […]

September 28, 2021 By Simon Evans MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) – UEFA has requested that the Madrid court judge presiding over the European Super League case recuse himself and has also filed an appeal with a higher court in the Spanish capital regarding what it called “significant irregularities”. On Monday, UEFA said it had nullified disciplinary […]

September 28, 2021 LONDON (Reuters) – Christmas 2021 will be disappointing for millions of British households unless the government extends a new visa scheme to allow foreign truck drivers into the country, the retail industry’s lobby group said on Tuesday. “Christmas is about more than just food, so to avoid disappointment for millions of households […]

September 28, 2021 TBILISI (Reuters) – Mikheil Saakashvili, the former president of Georgia, late on Monday announced plans to fly home on the day local elections are held this week in order to help “save the country” and called for post-election street protests. Saakashvili, who is based in Ukraine, said he planned to fly back […]

September 28, 2021 BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq holds a general election on Oct. 10, its fifth parliamentary vote since the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003 and ushered in a complex multi-party system contested by groups defined largely by sect or ethnicity. The vote had been set for next year but was brought […]

September 28, 2021 By Sakura Murakami and Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) – LGBTQ rights activists are hoping that Japan may finally allow same-sex marriage if Taro Kono, who has publicly supported gay marriage, becomes the country’s next prime minister, but change will not come easily. Kono is seen as the leading contender to win the […]

September 28, 2021 By John Irish PARIS (Reuters) – Europe needs to stop being naive when it comes to defending its interests and build its own military capacity, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday after Greece sealed a deal for French frigates worth about 3 billion euros ($3.51 billion). France was plunged into an […]

September 28, 2021 (Fixes typo in name of NSW state premier in paras 1 and 3) By Renju Jose SYDNEY (Reuters) -Sydney residents who are not vaccinated against COVID-19 risk being barred from various social activities even when they are freed from stay-at-home orders in December, New South Wales state Premier Gladys Berejiklian warned on […]

September 28, 2021 By Phil Stewart JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST, New Jersey (Reuters) – It could be the happy moments, like news of the 24 babies born here or last weekend’s wedding. Or maybe it’s talk of the trauma among evacuees or the Afghans picking through clothes on folding tables after losing absolutely everything. But there’s […]

Coalition, a San Francisco-based cybersecurity insurance company, has raised $205 million in Series E funding, valuing the pre-IPO company at more than $3.5 billion. The round was co-led by Durable Capital, T. Rowe Price, and Whale Rock Capital, with participation from the company’s existing investors. Coalition offers businesses cybersecurity tools and insurance to help manage […]

September 28, 2021 The Seattle Mariners continued their dominance of the visiting Oakland Athletics on Monday night, riding Mitch Haniger’s pair of three-run home runs to a 13-4 trouncing of their American League West rivals in the opener of a three-game series. Seattle pulled within 4 1/2 games of the first-place Houston Astros in the […]

September 28, 2021 Both seeded players in action lost Monday during the opening round of the ATP Tour’s Sofia (Bulgaria) Open. Italy’s Gianluca Mager upset sixth-seeded Adrian Mannarino of France 6-3, 6-2, and France’s Benoit Paire knocked off seventh-seeded Alejandro Davidovich Fokina of Spain 6-4, 7-5. Mager had lost his first-round match in three of […]

September 28, 2021 MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Perth may not be able to hold an Ashes test over Australia’s home summer due to COVID-19 restrictions, sports minister Richard Colbeck said on Tuesday. Perth is scheduled to host the fifth and final test from Jan. 14 but Colbeck said the Western Australia (WA) capital might have to […]

September 28, 2021 MUMBAI (Reuters) – Australia’s out-of-form opening batsman David Warner will head into next month’s Twenty20 World Cup without much match practice after he was dropped from Sunrisers Hyderabad for Monday’s Indian Premier League match. Warner, 34, is one of the IPL’s most successful batsmen and ranks fifth in the all-time list of […]

September 28, 2021 LONDON (Reuters) -British online greetings card retailer Moonpig raised its annual revenue forecast on Tuesday, saying orders remained above pre-pandemic levels even as rivals reopened stores following the lifting of lockdown restrictions. Moonpig, which listed on the stock market in February, accounts for nearly two-thirds of the online greetings card market in […]

September 28, 2021 (Reuters) – England captain Joe Root hailed Moeen Ali as a role model and said he would be a huge loss to the test side after the all-rounder announced his decision to quit the longest format of the game on Monday. Moeen, who made his test debut in 2014, scored 2,914 runs […]