CAIRO (Reuters) -Egypt’s annual headline inflation rate is forecast to have decelerated slightly in June to 16.2% as some food and beverage prices softened, a Reuters poll found. The median forecast of 15 analysts polled by Reuters was for annual urban consumer inflation to have eased to 16.2% from 16.8% in May. The polling data …
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By Mark Gleeson (Reuters) -League football has returned to war-torn Sudan for the first time in more than two years with a one-month competition being organised for eight clubs to determine the country’s champions. Sudan has been in the grip of conflict between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces since April 2023, with …
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ATHENS (Reuters) -Greece has rescued hundreds of migrants off its southern islands of Gavdos and Crete in five separate incidents since Friday, its coastguard said on Sunday. More than 430 migrants were spotted and rescued about 25 nautical miles off Gavdos, Greece’s southernmost island, on Sunday, the coastguard said in a statement. In a separate …
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By Lisandra Paraguassu RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) -Diplomats from the BRICS group of developing nations have agreed on a joint declaration of their leaders at a summit in Rio de Janeiro this week, three people familiar with the talks said on Saturday. The shared statement, which a gathering of their foreign ministers failed to achieve …
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(Reuters) -Kenya’s Beatrice Chebet smashed the women’s 5,000 metres world record and compatriot Faith Kipyegon broke her own 1,500m record again as the Eugene Diamond League meet lived up to its billing on Saturday. Olympic champion Chebet ran 13 minutes 58.06 seconds to better the time set by Gudaf Tsegay by over two seconds, the …
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(Reuters) -Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon broke her own 1,500 metres world record with a time of three minutes 48.68 seconds at the Eugene Diamond League meet on Saturday. Kipyegon set her previous world mark of 3:49.04 at the Paris Diamond League meeting last July. (Reporting by Trevor Stynes, editing by Ed Osmond)
By Jody Godoy and Nate Raymond (Reuters) – Eight migrants lost their last-ditch effort to halt their deportation to South Sudan by the Trump administration on Friday, clearing the way for their imminent transfer after a judge in Massachusetts denied their request. Lawyers for the U.S. Justice Department said the men were scheduled to be flown …
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By Suramya Kaushik (Reuters) -Julius Yego, the former world champion famously known as “Mr. YouTube”, faces a lonely battle to preserve javelin’s future in Kenya as he prepares for Saturday’s Neeraj Chopra Classic with the weight of an entire sport on his shoulders. The 2016 Rio Olympics silver medallist stands as Kenya’s sole representative in …
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By Emma Farge GENEVA -The United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday rejected a bid by Eritrea to end the mandate of a U.N. expert investigating alleged abuses in the country, in a relief to Western diplomats who feared it would set a dangerous precedent for states seeking to escape scrutiny. The motion brought by …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) -Rwandan President Paul Kagame said on Friday he was unsure whether a U.S.-brokered peace deal would hold with Democratic Republic of Congo and warned he would respond to any “tricks” from his neighbour. The agreement signed last week calls for Rwandan troops to withdraw within 90 days from eastern Congo, where the United …
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