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By Amy Tennery NEW YORK (Reuters) – Top talent from the WNBA will be on display when the novel 3×3 basketball league Unrivaled tips off on Friday in Miami, meeting the demand from players for more options to play stateside amid surging interest in the women’s game. Players in the top-flight WNBA have long flocked to leagues in Turkey, Russia, China and beyond during the winter off season to supplement […]

By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – The party of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday held formal reconciliatory talks with the government, aimed at cooling political instability in the 241-million South Asian nation, both sides said. The talks come a day ahead of a crucial court ruling in a land corruption case against the 72-year-old former cricket star-turned-politician. The verdict in the graft case due on Friday is […]

By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – The party of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday held formal reconciliatory talks with the government, aimed at cooling political instability in the 241-million South Asian nation, both sides said. The talks come a day ahead of a crucial court ruling in a land corruption case against the 72-year-old former cricket star-turned-politician. The verdict in the graft case due on Friday is […]

By Sai Ishwarbharath B, Hritam Mukherjee and Haripriya Suresh BENGALURU (Reuters) -India’s No.2 software-services exporter Infosys raised its annual revenue forecast for the third time this financial year on Thursday as its U.S. banking and retail clients warmed up to spending more on discretionary projects. The sentiment echoed that of market leader Tata Consultancy Services and smaller rival HCLTech, which also highlighted early signs of discretionary spending picking up and […]

By Sai Ishwarbharath B, Hritam Mukherjee and Haripriya Suresh BENGALURU (Reuters) -India’s No.2 software-services exporter Infosys raised its annual revenue forecast for the third time this financial year on Thursday as its U.S. banking and retail clients warmed up to spending more on discretionary projects. The sentiment echoed that of market leader Tata Consultancy Services and smaller rival HCLTech, which also highlighted early signs of discretionary spending picking up and […]

PARIS (AP) — Over 1,000 people attended a memorial ceremony Thursday in central Paris for the founder of France’s main far-right party, Jean-Marie Le Pen, who died last week at the age of 96. The “mass for the repose of the soul” at Notre-Dame du Val-de-Grâce church took place under tight security, as Le Pen was a polarizing figure, convicted multiple times of antisemitism, discrimination and inciting racial violence. Family […]

LONDON (AP) — A British lawmaker pleaded guilty Thursday to beating a man in a street during an incident captured on video. Mike Amesbury, 55, a member of Parliament who was suspended by the ruling center-left Labour Party after the Oct. 26 incident, pleaded guilty in Chester Magistrates’ Court to assaulting a 45-year-old man. Amesbury punched his constituent Paul Fellows in the head on a sidewalk in the town of […]

LONDON (AP) — An 84-year-old British man armed only with a pair of trousers beat back a mugger half his age who tried to rob him at a laundry in northern England. Ron Croker was drying his clothes last week when the masked thug accosted him at the unstaffed Coin-Op Launderette in Maltby in South Yorkshire. In the altercation caught on a surveillance camera, it appeared the two were struggling […]

KYIV (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy signed a landmark 100-year partnership agreement on Thursday to deepen security ties and strengthen their countries’ relationship. “Today is a truly historic day, our relationship is closer than ever,” Zelenskiy told media after the signing. (Reporting by Olena Harmash, Editing by William Maclean) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com