By Sybille de La Hamaide PARIS (Reuters) – Twice gold medallist Andy Murray kept his Olympic dream – and career – alive for one more match at least when he teamed up with fellow Briton Dan Evans to beat Kei Nishikori and Taro Daniel in a miraculous Roland Garros comeback on Sunday. The British pair …
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By Philip O’Connor PARIS (Reuters) – Gold medallist Jessica Fox and bronze-winner Kimberley Woods both knew that they were in with a medal chance during the women’s single kayak slalom on Sunday, but they still faced an agonising wait as their Olympic dreams hung in the balance. After a poor semi-final performance, Australian world number …
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By Stephanie Kelly, Jeff Mason and Tim Reid (Reuters) -Vice President Kamala Harris cast herself as the “underdog” in the presidential race and called her Republican opponent Donald Trump “just plain weird,” while Trump painted Harris as “evil,” “sick” and “unhinged” as the rivals exchanged barbs from afar on Saturday. The dueling appearances capped a …
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By Tim Reid WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump told Christians on Friday that if they vote for him this November, “in four years, you don’t have to vote again. We’ll have it fixed so good, you’re not gonna have to vote.” It was not clear what the former president meant by his remarks, …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday warned the United States that if Washington deployed long-range missiles in Germany from 2026 then Russia would station similar missiles in striking distance of the West. The United States will start deploying long-range fire capabilities in Germany in 2026 in an effort to demonstrate its commitment …
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(Reuters) – Three tanks at an oil storage depot in Russia’s Kursk region caught fire as a result of a Ukraine-launched drone attack, acting regional Governor Alexei Smirnov said on Sunday. No one was injured in the attack, and a fire at one of the tanks was quickly extinguished. However, 82 firefighters and 32 units …
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By Maayan Lubell, Maya Gebeily and Laila Bassam JERUSALEM/BEIRUT (Reuters) -A rocket attack on a football ground in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights killed 12 people including children on Saturday, Israeli authorities said, blaming Hezbollah and vowing to inflict a heavy price on the Iran-backed Lebanese group. Hezbollah denied any responsibility for the strike, the deadliest …
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By Drazen Jorgic (Reuters) – As a propeller plane on Thursday whirred towards the U.S.-Mexico border to cross illegally, U.S. agents raced to meet it at a small municipal airport near El Paso, Texas, and arrest two men who were part of Mexican drug trafficking royalty. The son of jailed former Sinaloa Cartel kingpin Joaquin …
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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – A glacial flood in southern Iceland inundated a ring road on Saturday, causing a section at one end of the nearby bridge to give way and tear apart, the country’s meteorological office said in a statement. “It is clear that it is an unusually large flood,” the Met Office said. There were …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Russian shelling killed at least four civilians on Saturday in separate regions of Ukraine, officials said. In northeastern Sumy region, a border area frequently under Russian attack, a 14-year-old boy was killed and 12 other people wounded in a rocket attack on the small town of Hlukhiv, the Ukraine prosecutor’s office said. …
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