By Amy Tennery NEW YORK (Reuters) -Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka hoisted the trophy in New York at last after years of close calls, as she outplayed American sixth seed Jessica Pegula 7-5 7-5 in the U.S. Open women’s final on Saturday. Sabalenka won her first title at Flushing Meadows a year after coming up short in …
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CARACAS (Reuters) – Edmundo Gonzalez, the opposition presidential candidate who ran against President Nicolas Maduro in elections in July, has left the country, Vice President Delcy Rodriguez said on Saturday. In a post on Instagram, Rodriguez said Gonzalez had left the Spanish embassy, where he was seeking asylum, and left Venezuela. (Reporting by Vivian Sequeira; …
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(Reuters) – SpaceX will launch its first uncrewed Starships to Mars in two years when the next Earth-Mars transfer window opens, Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk said in a post on social media platform X on Saturday. “These will be uncrewed to test the reliability of landing intact on Mars,” Musk said, adding if those …
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By Renee Maltezou and Lefteris Papadimas ATHENS (Reuters) -Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis promised on Saturday to increase pensions, cut taxes and social security contributions, and increase the minimum wage in 2025, as thousands rallied to protest a high cost of living. In his annual economic policy speech at the Thessaloniki trade fair in northern …
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KYIV (Reuters) -Russian shelling killed five people in Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine on Saturday, officials said. Three people were killed and four injured in the town of Kostyantynivka, Donetsk region governor Vadym Filashkin said, while two men in their 50s were reported killed in shelling near the town of Toretsk about 20 km (12 …
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday Islamic countries should form an alliance against what he called “the growing threat of expansionism” from Israel, drawing a rebuke from the Israeli foreign minister. He made the comment after describing what Palestinian and Turkish officials said was the killing by Israeli troops of a Turkish-American …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) – Israeli military strikes across the Palestinian Gaza Strip killed at least 61 people in the space of 48 hours, medics said on Saturday, as Israeli forces battled Hamas-led militants in the territory. Eleven months into the war, numerous rounds of diplomacy have so far failed to clinch a ceasefire …
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LISBON (Reuters) – Five inmates including a Briton, an Argentinian and a Georgian as well as two Portuguese escaped from the Vale de Judeus high-security prison some 30 km (18 miles) north of Lisbon, authorities said on Saturday. According to the Portuguese prison service, the men, aged between 33 and 61 years old, escaped at …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Three civilians were injured in Russia’s Belgorod region after Ukrainian shells hit the town of Shebekino, the regional governor said on Saturday. “Ambulance crews brought a woman in serious condition with shrapnel wounds to the back and thigh and a man with a shrapnel wound to the chest to the regional clinical …
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By John Irish PARIS (Reuters) -Thousands of people demonstrated across France on Saturday against Emmanuel Macron’s decision to pick centre-right politician Michel Barnier as prime minister, with leftist parties accusing the president of ignoring election results. Macron named 73-year-old Barnier, a conservative and the former Brexit negotiator for the European Union, as prime minister on …
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