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By Catarina Demony and Philip Pullella LISBON (Reuters) -Pope Francis landed in Lisbon on Wednesday for a global gathering of young Catholics taking place in the shadow of Portugal’s huge clergy sexual abuse scandal and criticism of soaring costs for the event. Hundreds of thousands of young people from around the world have descended on Lisbon to welcome Francis, whose plane, also carrying his entourage and reporters, touched down at […]

LISBON (Reuters) – Pope Francis arrived in Lisbon on Wednesday to start a five-day visit centred around the World Youth Day, a global gathering of young Catholics. The ITA Airways plane carrying the pontiff, his entourage and reporters landed at Lisbon’s Figo Maduro military air base. His first stop will be a welcoming ceremony hosted by Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa at the presidential Belem Palace. (Reporting by Philip […]

By Catarina Demony and Philip Pullella LISBON (Reuters) -Pope Francis landed in Lisbon on Wednesday for a global gathering of young Catholics taking place in the shadow of Portugal’s huge clergy sexual abuse scandal and criticism of soaring costs for the event. Hundreds of thousands of young people from around the world have descended on Lisbon to welcome Francis, whose plane, also carrying his entourage and reporters, touched down at […]

By Liz Lee and Ella Cao BEIJING (Reuters) -China on Wednesday dispatched thousands of rescue workers to Zhuozhou, a flooded city of over 600,000 residents southwest of Beijing, as the remnants of Typhoon Doksuri continued to wreak havoc on swathes of the city twice the size of Paris. Zhuozhou is in Hebei province, which has borne the brunt of the worst storms to hit northern China in over a decade, […]

By Panarat Thepgumpanat BANGKOK (Reuters) -Thailand’s election-winning Move Forward Party has been excluded from a coalition of parties hoping to form the next government after a May general election, parties in the alliance said on Wednesday. Southeast Asia’s second largest economy has been in political limbo since the poll, in which the progressive Move Forward emerged as the largest party, closely followed by the populist Pheu Thai party. Pheu Thai, […]

By Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) – Russia attacked Ukraine’s grain ports in the early hours of Wednesday, including an inland port across the Danube River from Romania, sending global food prices soaring as Moscow ramps up its use of force to reimpose a blockade of Ukrainian exports. Ukraine’s defence ministry said a grain silo was damaged in the Danube port of Izmail in the Odesa region: “Ukrainian grain has the […]

TOKYO (Reuters) -Subaru will target annual sales of 600,000 battery electric vehicles by 2030 so that they make up 50% of its global sales target, the Japanese automaker said on Wednesday. It also said it planned to invest about 1.5 trillion yen ($10.51 billion) by around the start of next decade in electrification. “The coming five years to 2028 are a really important period for us to realise those goals,” […]

TOKYO (Reuters) -Subaru will target annual sales of 600,000 battery electric vehicles by 2030 so that they make up 50% of its global sales target, the Japanese automaker said on Wednesday. It also said it planned to invest about 1.5 trillion yen ($10.51 billion) by around the start of next decade in electrification. “The coming five years to 2028 are a really important period for us to realise those goals,” […]

United States countrymen Frances Tiafoe and Brandon Nakashima showed off their tiebreaker prowess on Tuesday at the Mubadala Citi DC Open, winning their matches by taking back-to-back tiebreakers in Washington. Tiafoe, the second seed, got past Russia’s Aslan Karatsev 7-6 (5), 7-6 (5) in second-round action. Neither player broke serve in the match, with Tiafoe saving four break points and Karatsev saving two. In the first-set tiebreaker, Tiafoe jumped out […]