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DURBAN (Reuters) – A career-best unbeaten 92 from new captain Mitch Marsh propelled Australia to a comprehensive 111-run victory over hosts South Africa in the first Twenty20 International in Durban on Wednesday. Australia took a 1-0 lead in the three-match series after posting 226 for six in their 20 overs, the highest score at Kingsmead, before restricting South Africa to 115 all out in a reply that never really got […]

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – At least six protesters and one policeman were killed in the eastern Congolese city of Goma on Wednesday when a demonstration against the U.N. peacekeeping mission and other foreign organisations turned violent, the Congolese army said. Since 2022, the United Nations MONUSCO mission has faced protests spurred partly by complaints that the peacekeepers have failed to protect civilians against years of militia violence. […]

By Moira Warburton (Reuters) -Top U.S. Senate Republican Mitch McConnell froze up for more than 30 seconds on Wednesday during a public appearance before he was escorted away, the second such incident in a little more than a month, a clip from an NBC News affiliate showed. McConnell, 81, was responding to questions from reporters after an event with the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce in Covington when he froze […]

By Nate Raymond DEDHAM, Massachusetts (Reuters) – A Massachusetts judge on Wednesday dismissed a criminal case charging former Roman Catholic Cardinal Theodore McCarrick with molesting a 16-year-old boy in 1974, saying the 93-year-old was not competent to stand trial after psychological experts found he had dementia. McCarrick, a former archbishop of Washington, D.C., is the only current or former U.S. Catholic cardinal to ever face child sex abuse charges, with […]

By Stephen Nellis (Reuters) -The U.S. government has imposed restrictions on some Nvidia artificial intelligence chip exports to certain countries in the Middle East, the company said in a regulatory filing this week. “During the second quarter of fiscal year 2024, the USG (U.S. government) informed us of an additional licensing requirement for a subset of A100 and H100 products destined to certain customers and other regions, including some countries […]

By Natalia A. Ramos Miranda SANTIAGO (Reuters) – As Chile readies to mark 50 years since the 1973 coup against then President Salvador Allende, the country is increasingly asking a question about the thousands who disappeared in the years of military dictatorship that followed: “Where are they?”. The South American country is ramping up a hunt, with a National Search Plan launched on Wednesday by progressive President Gabriel Boric to […]

(In third paragraph, please read “July 2021” instead of “July 2022”, corrects date of charges being first filed) By Nate Raymond DEDHAM, Massachusetts (Reuters) -A Massachusetts judge on Wednesday dismissed a criminal case charging former Roman Catholic Cardinal Theodore McCarrick with molesting a 16-year-old boy in 1974, saying the 93-year-old was not competent to stand trial after psychological experts found he had dementia. McCarrick, a former archbishop of Washington, D.C., […]

SEOUL/TOKYO (Reuters) -North Korea fired at least two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea on Wednesday, South Korea’s military said, hours after the U.S. separately deployed B-1B bombers for allied air drills. Japan’s defence ministry also reported that at least one suspected ballistic missile was launched, while Japanese media reported that two missiles were fired and landed outside Japan’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ). “Our military has strengthened surveillance and vigilance […]

By Maria Alejandra Cardona and Marco Bello STEINHATCHEE, Florida (Reuters) – Hurricane Idalia on Wednesday plowed through the Big Bend region of Florida, where millions of residents had evacuated or hunkered down in anticipation of a dangerous surge of tidal water, but the storm’s power ebbed as it headed into Georgia. Drawing strength from the Gulf of Mexico’s warm waters, Idalia unleashed destructive winds and torrential downpours that were forecast […]