By Divya Rajagopal TORONTO (Reuters) – Canadian actor Elliot Page hopes that his role in the new film “Close to You” moves people and cracks open the hearts and minds of viewers as it did for him. The film, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival on Sunday, explores the story of Page’s character Sam, …
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By Steve Keating NEW YORK (Reuters) -Novak Djokovic would not let Daniil Medvedev spoil his date with history a second time as he battled past the Russian 6-3 7-6(5) 6-3 to win the U.S. Open on Sunday and equal Margaret Court’s record haul of 24 Grand Slams. Djokovic’s victory, his fourth in 10 Flushing Meadows …
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SYDNEY (Reuters) – Support for the inclusion of an Indigenous advisory panel in Australia’s constitution has dipped further, a poll showed on Monday, putting the landmark proposal on track for defeat ahead of a national vote next month. Voters have swung against a “Voice to Parliament” for the fifth month in a row, a survey …
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A group of Mexican and American citizens traveling in vehicles in northern Mexico was attacked by armed civilians on Saturday, leaving at least three Mexican passengers injured, local authorities said. The incident occurred during the early morning hours on the Roma Bridge in the city of Miguel Aleman in Mexican border …
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By Amy Tennery NEW YORK (Reuters) -Teenager Coco Gauff mounted a fierce comeback to beat Belarusian second seed Aryna Sabalenka 2-6 6-3 6-2 in the U.S. Open women’s final on Saturday, claiming her first Grand Slam title and cementing her place in American tennis royalty. With the win, sixth seed Gauff became the first American …
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(Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Saturday that Russian leader Vladimir Putin would not be arrested in Brazil if he attends the Group of 20 meeting in Rio de Janeiro next year. Interviewed on the sidelines of the G20 meeting in Delhi by news show Firstpost, Lula said Putin would …
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Israelis protested in cities across the country on Saturday ahead of a key decision by the Supreme Court over legislation passed by the coalition which stripped the court of some of its oversight powers. Earlier this year, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right coalition presented plans to strip …
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By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – Elon Musk’s X Corp sued California on Friday, challenging the constitutionality of a state law establishing new transparency requirements for social media companies, including how they police disinformation, hate speech and extremism. X, the social media platform once called Twitter, said the law, known as Assembly Bill 587, violates its …
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MERSIN, Turkey (Reuters) – An American cave explorer trapped more than 1,000 metres underground in a cave in southern Turkey has recorded a video message to say he was up and alert after a team of rescuers reached him with medical supplies. Mark Dickey, 40, was on an international exploration mission in the Morca cave …
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By Arathy Somasekhar and Jonathan Saul HOUSTON (Reuters) -The U.S. on Friday divulged it disrupted in April a multimillion-dollar shipment of crude oil by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, seizing more than 980,000 barrels of contraband crude oil that violated U.S. sanctions. In April, Reuters reported that the U.S. confiscated cargo onboard tanker Suez Rajan, …
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