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(Reuters) – Britain’s Stefan Wilson, younger brother of the late F1 and IndyCar driver Justin, will miss Sunday’s Indianapolis 500 after injuring his back in a heavy crash on Monday. Wilson went into the barrier after his car was hit from behind in afternoon practice at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway by compatriot Katherine Legge. The 33-year-old’s Dreyer & Reinbold team said he had suffered a fracture of the 12th thoracic […]

By Alun John LONDON (Reuters) – Markets were cautious on Tuesday as talks over the U.S. debt ceiling offered something for optimists and pessimists, leaving European shares just shy of last week’s 15-month top, and U.S. benchmark yields at their highest in two months. President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy could not reach an agreement on Monday on how to raise the U.S. government’s $31.4 trillion debt ceiling […]

By Clara Denina and Helen Reid LONDON (Reuters) – Mining firms lag far behind other sectors on female representation in top leadership, data released on Tuesday showed. S&P Global Commodity Insights’ figures highlight the industry’s struggle to improve gender equity, with women filling just 12.1% of the highest-ranking executive positions across more than 2,000 publicly-listed miners globally as of April, a rise of only 1.6 percentage points from October 2021. […]

By Andrew Osborn (Reuters) – Russian security forces are conducting a counter-terrorism operation in a region bordering Ukraine for a second day to counter an incursion from what Russia calls “Ukrainian armed groups”, officials said on Tuesday. In what appeared to be one of the biggest border penetrations from Ukraine since the war began 15 months ago, two purported anti-Kremlin armed groups employing Russians based abroad said they were responsible […]

BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Relations between Hungary and Sweden must improve before the Nordic state’s bid for NATO membership is approved, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said at the Qatar Economic Forum on Tuesday. Sweden and its neighbour Finland asked to join the NATO military alliance last year following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But Sweden’s application has been held up by Turkey and Hungary, with Budapest citing grievances over Swedish criticism […]

Beirut (Reuters) -Lebanon has been verbally informed by Germany of an arrest warrant against Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh “on charges of corruption, forgery… and money laundry and embezzlement”, a senior judicial source told Reuters on Tuesday. No one at the German federal prosecution was immediately available to comment. Last Friday, France’s national financial prosecutor confirmed in a statement that it has issued an arrest warrant for Salameh. Salameh has […]

By James Oliphant and Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) – If Ron DeSantis hopes to defeat Donald Trump and win the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, he will ultimately have to bring every possible anti-Trump voter he can into the fold. But even that likely will not be enough, political analysts say. DeSantis will also have to pull some supporters away from Trump — and that could make for a tricky balancing […]

By Hritika Sharma (Reuters) – Reigning world champion Ding Liren and top-ranked Magnus Carlsen will participate in next month’s inaugural franchise-based Global Chess League (GCL), organisers said on Tuesday. The tournament will run from June 21 to July 2 in Dubai and feature six teams of six players each, including a minimum of two female players and an “icon” player per team. Carlsen and Ding will join as two of […]

By Karen Freifeld (Reuters) – Donald Trump will appear in a New York courtroom by video on Tuesday, where a judge is expected to make clear to him that he cannot publicly disclose certain evidence in the criminal case against him over hush money paid to a porn star. Justice Juan Merchan in Manhattan state court agreed to let the former U.S. president appear remotely, avoiding a repeat of the […]