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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Real Madrid forward Vinicius Junior was among 23 players named in Brazil’s squad on Sunday for friendlies against Guinea and Senegal next month, his first national team call up after being racially abused in a match at Valencia earlier this month. The games against the two African countries are part of an anti-racism campaign by Brazil in support of 22-year-old Vinicius Jr, who last week […]

(Reuters) -Primoz Roglic became the first Slovenian winner of the Giro d’Italia when he retained the overall lead after Sunday’s 21st and final stage in Rome, a day after he ousted Geraint Thomas from the maglia rosa in a dramatic time trial. The 33-year-old seized the pink jersey with a powerful performance in Saturday’s penultimate stage and finished Sunday’s ceremonial 126-km flat route unscathed as Mark Cavendish produced a vintage […]

By Guy Faulconbridge and Joey Roulette MOSCOW/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Russia on Sunday condemned U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham for telling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy during a visit to Kyiv that U.S. support for Ukraine was the best money Washington had ever spent and that “the Russians are dying”. At a meeting on Friday, Zelenskiy told Graham that “now we are free”. “And the Russians are dying,” Graham said, according to a […]

(Reuters) – Primoz Roglic became the first Slovenian winner of the Giro d’Italia when he retained the overall lead after Sunday’s 21st and final stage in Rome, a day after he ousted Geraint Thomas from the maglia rosa in a dramatic time trial. The 33-year-old seized the pink jersey with a powerful performance in Saturday’s penultimate stage and finished Sunday’s ceremonial 126-km flat run safely in the bunch to clinch […]

By Miranda Murray CANNES (Reuters) -French director Justine Triet became the third female director to win the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or on Saturday, beating out 20 other films in competition for the top prize. Triet called being only the third woman to win “surprising” and said the decision was encouraging for the future. “We’re at the dawn of deep-seated changes in this respect,” she said after winning. Triet used […]

By Ann Saphir (Reuters) -Chicago Federal Reserve Bank President Austan Goolsbee on Sunday welcomed news of a deal to suspend the U.S. debt ceiling, saying failure to forge an agreement would be “extremely negative” for the financial system and broader economy. Interviewed on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” he declined to say whether he would support an interest-rate hike at the Fed meeting on June 13-14. He said the full impact […]

PARIS (Reuters) – French Open organisers were again opting to give men prime time billing at the claycourt major, and overlooking women’s matches, as Italian Jannik Sinner’s first round outing was scheduled for Monday’s evening session on Court Philippe Chatrier. French fifth seed Caroline Garcia’s popularity has grown since she reached the U.S. Open semi-finals last September — hence she seemed to be a prime candidate to be given top […]

(Fixes typo in headline) By Ece Toksabay and Can Sezer ANKARA (Reuters) – President Tayyip Erdogan appeared to be headed for victory in Turkey’s runoff election on Sunday, with data from both state-run Anadolu agency and opposition ANKA news agency giving him an edge with about 93% of the ballot boxes counted. The head of the High Election Board said at a news conference that Erdogan was leading challenger Kemal […]

By Ece Toksabay and Can Sezer ANKARA (Reuters) – President Tayyip Erdogan appeared to be headed for victory in Turkey’s runoff election on Sunday, with data from both state-run Anadolu agency and opposition ANKA news agency giving him an edge with about 93% of the ballot boxes counted. The head of the High Election Board said at a news conference that Erdogan was leading challenger Kemal Kilicdaroglu with 54.47% support, […]