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(Reuters) – Saudi Arabia’s sports minister said his country’s government would support any Saudi private sector bids to buy Premier League sides Manchester United and Liverpool. Manchester United’s owners, the …

AL SHAMAL, Qatar (Reuters) – Germany replaced the logo of a supermarket chain that pulled its sponsorship over the ‘OneLove’ diversity armband controversy with that of the armband itself at …

By Stefanno Sulaiman CIANJUR, Indonesia (Reuters) -Hundreds of Indonesians prayed out in the open next to rice paddies and in the streets on Friday, as the death toll from an …

By Johnny Carvajal CARACAS (Reuters) – Samuel Rodriguez’s pizzeria in Caracas does not just serve up hot cheesy pies – it also dishes out jokes, offering a stage to young …

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – Donald Trump was sued for defamation a second time on Thursday by a writer who accused the former U.S. president of lying by …

By Rohith Nair LUSAIL, Qatar (Reuters) -Brazil outclassed Serbia 2-0 in their World Cup opener on Thursday as Richarlison scored two second-half goals, including a spectacular overhead kick, though an …

By Lewis Jackson SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia will introduce rules to increase transparency in ministerial appointments after an inquiry into secret ministerial appointments by then Prime Minister Scott Morrison found they …

By Natalie Thomas and Alistair Smout GOSPORT, England/LONDON (Reuters) – Chukwudubem Ifeajuna, a nurse in the south of England, loves his job, but next month will walk out for two …

By Stefanno Sulaiman CIANJUR, Indonesia (Reuters) -Indonesian authorities struggled on Thursday to get aid to thousands of people displaced by a deadly earthquake in western Java, as rain-triggered landslides and …

BOGOTA (Reuters) -Colombia’s highest administrative court has annulled the appointment of central bank co-director Alberto Carrasquilla on the grounds that it violated a gender quota law, the court said on …

By Tom Polansek CHICAGO (Reuters) -Avian flu has wiped out 50.54 million birds in the United States this year, making it the country’s deadliest outbreak in history, U.S. Department of …

By Jay Paul and Nathan Layne CHESAPEAKE, Va. (Reuters) – A Walmart supervisor armed with a handgun and several magazines of ammunition opened fire on fellow employees in a Virginia …

By David Alire Garcia MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -An extensive cache of Aztec ritual offerings found underneath downtown Mexico City, off the steps of what would have been the empire’s holiest …

By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) -The United States marked the Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday with traditional feasts, parades and American football, taking a moment to celebrate in a week shadowed by …

By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – A court at a Vatican corruption trial on Thursday heard a secretly recorded telephone call between the main defendant, embattled Cardinal Angelo Becciu, …

By Toby Davis DOHA (Reuters) -Cristiano Ronaldo drew a line under a tumultuous tournament build-up as he wrote his name in the record books to become the first man to …

By Juliette Portala (Reuters) – Summer heatwaves in France, Germany, Spain and Britain led to more than 20,000 “excess” deaths, a report compiling official figures said on Thursday. Temperatures hit …

By A. Ananthalakshmi, Mei Mei Chu and Rozanna Latiff KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia’s Anwar Ibrahim was sworn in as prime minister on Thursday, capping a three-decade political journey from …

By Michael Kahn, Anna Koper and Robert Muller PRAGUE/WARSAW (Reuters) – Eastern Europe’s arms industry is churning out guns, artillery shells and other military supplies at a pace not seen …

By Crispian Balmer ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s only Black lawmaker suspended himself from his left-wing party on Thursday after his family was accused of mismanaging funds and exploiting staff at …

By Elizabeth Pineau PARIS (Reuters) -France’s lower house on Thursday voted by a large majority to enshrine abortion rights in the constitution, with MPs on the left and centre saying …