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ROME (Reuters) – A first-half goal by midfielder Ivan Ilic secured Torino a surprise 1-0 win at second-placed Lazio in Serie A on Saturday as Ivan Juric’s side returned to winning ways and into the top 10. An even first half took a turn two minutes before halftime when Torino went ahead through Ilic who struck low from outside the box. Torino, winless in their previous four games, moved up […]

By Jeffrey Dastin (Reuters) – Ukraine plans to deploy software from U.S. data analytics provider Palantir Technologies Inc to help it prosecute alleged war crimes committed by Russia, the company told Reuters. Palantir, which has supplied Ukraine with systems to help it target Russian tanks and support refugees, is now working with the prosecutor general’s office to help investigators across Europe pool and process data, the company said. Its software […]

(Reuters) – Russia is advising citizens to avoid travel to Canada, citing what it calls numerous cases of discrimination against Russians, including physical violence, its foreign ministry said on Saturday. Canada is one of the most vocal backers of Ukraine in the war against Moscow’s forces and has imposed sanctions on hundreds of Russian officials and companies as well as wide-scale trade bans. “Due to the numerous instances of discrimination […]

By Catarina Demony and Miguel Pereira LISBON (Reuters) – Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said he does not want to “please anyone” with his views about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine after he provoked criticism in the West for suggesting Kyiv was in part to blame for the war. Speaking in Lisbon on Saturday at the start of his first visit to Europe since being elected president, Lula said his […]

BERLIN (Reuters) – New Zealand’s Mitch Evans led Britain’s Sam Bird to Jaguar’s first ever Formula E one-two in a chaotic race in Berlin on Saturday. The victory, from ninth on the grid at the circuit around the city’s old Tempelhof airport, was Evans’s second in a row — after Sao Paulo on March 25 — in the all-electric world championship. “It’s an incredible feeling to get back-to-back wins, particularly […]

By Byron Kaye (Reuters) -Barry Humphries, the comedian best known for his character Dame Edna Everage who blossomed from an Australian suburban housewife into a self-described gigastar, died on Saturday. He was 89. The Sydney Morning Herald said Humphries died at St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney, where he had been treated for various health issues. “He was completely himself until the very end, never losing his brilliant mind, his unique […]

By Khalid Abdelaziz and Nafisa Eltahir KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Some foreign nationals began evacuating from Sudan on Saturday after a week of strife that has killed hundreds of civilians, even as the army used air strikes against a rival paramilitary force during battles in central Khartoum. The bloody onslaught of urban warfare has trapped large numbers in the Sudanese capital. The airport has been repeatedly targeted and many residents have […]

By Jeffrey Dastin (Reuters) – Ukraine plans to deploy software from U.S. data analytics provider Palantir Technologies Inc to help it prosecute alleged war crimes committed by Russia, the company told Reuters. Palantir, which has supplied Ukraine with systems to help it target Russian tanks and support refugees, is now working with the prosecutor general’s office to help investigators across Europe pool and process data, the company said. Its software […]

(Reuters) – The publishers of a German magazine that ran an ‘interview’ with Michael Schumacher generated by artificial intelligence have sacked the editor and apologised to the Formula One great’s family. Seven-times world champion Schumacher, now 54, has not been seen in public since he suffered a serious brain injury in a skiing accident on a family holiday in the French Alps in December 2013. His family said this week […]