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LISBON (Reuters) – As Lisbon gears up for a long visit by Pope Francis next week, a local pastry shop has rolled out a brand-new treat to mark the occasion: a cookie with the pontiff’s picture on it that is already selling fast. The idea began as an in-house joke between one of the owners of Balcao do Marques, Fernando Santos, and his pastry chefs. They are now making up […]

By Bart Biesemans WYONG, Australia (Reuters) – Germany are wary of the threat of Colombian striker Linda Caicedo in their Women’s World Cup Group H clash in Sydney on Sunday but centre back Sara Doorsoun is confident the defence can deal with her. Teenager Caicedo, who plays her club football for Real Madrid, scored Colombia’s second goal as the South Americans got their tournament off to a winning start with […]

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan’s Takeda Pharmaceutical posted first-quarter profit that beat analysts’ estimates, citing solid sales of mainstay drugs and the launch of new products including its dengue fever vaccine. The result marked a better-than-expected start to a rebuilding year for Takeda, as main sellers lose patent protection and it works to wring new winners out of its drug pipeline. Operating profit rose 12% from a year earlier to 168.6 billion […]

By Dominique Vidalon and Helen Reid PARIS (Reuters) -Cash-strapped retailer Casino suffered a first-half loss after falling sales and price cuts at its biggest stores dented its core French business, while investors awaited a debt rescue deal due to be clinched on Thursday. Casino is in talks with Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky over a plan to inject 1.2 billion euros ($1.33 billion) of new money into the French retailer, and […]

By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) – A Norwegian woman and her sherpa guide climbed Mount K2 in Pakistan on Thursday, their 14th highest mountain in just over three months, becoming the world’s fastest climbers to scale all peaks above 8,000 metre (26,246 feet) in the shortest time, an official of their Nepali organising company said. Kristin Harila, 37, and Nepal’s Tenjen (Lama) Sherpa, 35, scaled K2, which is the world’s […]

SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Spain (Reuters) – Firefighters have “stabilised” a wildfire that ravaged 400 hectares of woodland in the centre of the Spanish island of Gran Canaria, local emergency services chief Federico Grillo said on Thursday. Authorities declared the wildfire stable at 0.42 a.m. local time (2342 GMT) after it had forced the evacuation of hundreds of villagers from their homes as well as dozens of children from a […]

By Lucy Craymer and Renju Jose WELLINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday the door was open for New Zealand to engage with the AUKUS weapons development and procurement project between the United States, Britain and Australia. The multi-stage AUKUS project announced in March is planned to culminate in the late 2030s and early 2040s with British and Australian production and operation of a new submarine […]

By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) – A Norwegian woman and her sherpa guide climbed Mount K2 in Pakistan on Thursday, their 14th highest mountain in just over three months, becoming the world’s fastest climbers to scale all peaks above 8,000 metre (26,246 feet) in the shortest time, an official of their Nepali organising company said. Kristin Harila, 37, and Nepal’s Tenjen (Lama) Sherpa, 35, scaled K2, which is the world’s […]

(Corrects “Islands” to “country” in the first paragraph to make clear reference was to Papua New Guinea) By Kirsty Needham (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said on Thursday during a visit to Papua New Guinea that the United States was not seeking a permanent base in the Pacific country but would boost the nation’s capability under a new defence agreement. Papua New Guinea (PNG) and the United States […]