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PARIS (Reuters) -Paris St Germain goalkeeper Sergio Rico is in intensive care following a riding accident, the French Ligue 1 club said on Sunday. The Ligue 1 champions confirmed Spanish media reports that Rico, PSG’s second-choice keeper, is in the ICU at Sevilla’s Virgen del Rocio hospital. “Paris Saint-Germain learned of Sergio Rico’s accident on Sunday and are in constant contact with his family,” PSG said in a statement. Spaniard […]

By Shrivathsa Sridhar PARIS (Reuters) – Aryna Sabalenka said she understood Marta Kostyuk’s decision to skip customary post-match handshakes with Russian and Belarusian players following Moscow’s invasion of her country Ukraine but the player did not deserve jeers from the French Open crowd. Booing and jeering could be heard from the thin Court Philippe Chatrier crowd as Kostyuk left the venue after a 6-3 6-2 loss to Belarusian world number […]

DUBAI (Reuters) – Oman’s Sultan Haitham bin Tariq al-Said arrived in Tehran on Sunday for a two-day visit, semi-official Tasnim news agency reported, two days after Muscat mediated a prisoner swap between the Islamic Republic and Belgium. The visit takes place amid tensions between Iran and the West over Tehran’s nuclear programme as well as allegations it is supplying drones for Russia’s war in Ukraine, plus the Islamic Republic’s human […]

By Khalid Abdelaziz DUBAI (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia and the United States called on Sunday for the extension of a ceasefire deal that has brought some let-up in a six-week war between military factions but little humanitarian relief for civilians. Clashes could be heard overnight and on Sunday in the capital Khartoum, residents said, while human rights monitors reported deadly fighting in El Fashir, one of the principal cities in […]

By Angie Teo and Fabian Hamacher TAIPEI (Reuters) – A 14-legged giant isopod is the highlight of a new dish at a ramen restaurant in Taipei and it has people queuing up – both for pictures and for a bite from this bowl of noodles. Since the ‘The Ramen Boy’ launched the limited-edition noodle bowl on May 22, declaring in a social media post that it had “finally got this […]

By Ece Toksabay and Can Sezer ANKARA (Reuters) – Turks voted on Sunday in a presidential runoff that could see Tayyip Erdogan extend his rule into a third decade and persist with Turkey’s increasingly authoritarian path, muscular foreign policy and unorthodox economic governance. Erdogan, 69, defied opinion polls and came out ahead with an almost five-point lead over his rival Kemal Kilicdaroglu in the first round on May 14. But […]

(Reuters) – Paris St Germain goalkeeper Sergio Rico is in intensive care following a riding accident, the club said on Sunday. The Ligue 1 champions confirmed Spanish media reports that Rico, PSG’s second-choice keeper, is in the ICU at Sevilla’s Virgen del Rocio hospital. Spaniard Rico, 29, joined PSG in 2020 after a season-long loan at the capital club. (Reporting by Julien Pretot; Editing by Ed Osmond) Brought to you […]

SEOUL (Reuters) – A South Korean court issued an arrest warrant on Sunday for a passenger who opened an Asiana Airlines plane door minutes before it landed in Daegu, South Korea, Yonhap News Agency reported. The man, in his thirties, was detained on landing on Friday after opening the door when the A321-200 plane was about 700 feet (213 metres) above the ground, causing panic onboard. The Daegu District Court […]

By Shrivathsa Sridhar PARIS (Reuters) – Aryna Sabalenka said she understood Marta Kostyuk’s decision to skip customary post-match handshakes with Russian and Belarusian players following Moscow’s invasion of her country Ukraine but the player did not deserve jeers from the French Open crowd. Booing and jeering could be heard from the thin Court Philippe Chatrier crowd as Kostyuk left the venue after a 6-3 6-2 loss to Belarusian world number […]