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PARIS (Reuters) – Highlights of the second day at the French Open on Monday (times GMT): 2051 OSTAPENKO MARCHES ON Jelena Ostapenko, the 2017 champion, battled back from 1-5 down in the second set to seal a 6-3 7-5 victory over Tereza Martincova. READ MORE: – Djokovic canters into French Open round two as Stephens lays down marker – Alcaraz blasts past qualifier Cobolli in French Open first round – […]

By Ariba Shahid KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) remains in touch with Pakistan’s authorities in order to pave the way for a board meeting before a financing program expires at the end of June, the IMF mission chief for Pakistan said. Ordinarily, a board meeting on a review of the program would require a prior staff-level agreement, which in Pakistan’s case would unlock $1.1 billion in […]

By Khalid Abdelaziz and Aidan Lewis DUBAI (Reuters) -Sudan’s warring military factions agreed on Monday to a five-day extension of a ceasefire agreement, after renewed heavy clashes and air strikes in the capital threw fresh doubts on the effectiveness of a truce designed to ease a humanitarian crisis. Saudi Arabia and the United States, which brokered a week-long ceasefire deal and have been monitoring it remotely, announced shortly before it […]

(Reuters) -China has rejected a request by the United States for a meeting between their defense chiefs on the sidelines of an annual security forum in Singapore this coming weekend, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. “Overnight, the PRC informed the U.S. that they have declined our early May invitation for Secretary (Lloyd) Austin to meet with PRC Minister of National Defense Li Shangfu in Singapore this week,” the […]

PARIS (Reuters) – Serbian world number three Novak Djokovic risked stirring up a political controversy at the French Open after writing a message about Kosovo following his first-round victory on Monday. “Kosovo is the heart of Serbia. Stop the violence,” 22-time Grand Slam champion Djokovic wrote on a camera lens in Serbian. Around 25 NATO peacekeeping soldiers defending three town halls in northern Kosovo were injured in clashes with Serb […]

By Nelson Renteria SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) – A court in El Salvador sentenced former President Mauricio Funes and his justice minister to more than a decade behind bars for their ties to criminal groups and failure to comply with duties, the attorney general’s office said on Monday. Funes was sentenced to 14 years and his former justice and defense minister, David Munguia, to 18. “We were able to verify that […]

(Reuters) – China has rebuffed a U.S. request for a meeting between their defense chiefs on the sidelines of an annual security forum in Singapore this coming weekend, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. (Reporting by Urvi Dugar in Bengaluru; Editing by Chris Reese) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

By Max Hunder KYIV (Reuters) – Kyiv’s peace plan is the only way to end Russia’s war in Ukraine and the time for mediation efforts has passed, a top aide to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said. Chief diplomatic adviser Ihor Zhovkva told Reuters that Ukraine had no interest in a ceasefire that locks in Russian territorial gains, and wanted the implementation of its peace plan, which envisages the full withdrawal of […]

MISRATA, Libya (Reuters) – A Libyan court sentenced 23 people to death and another 14 to life in prison on Monday for their role in a deadly Islamic State militant campaign that included beheading a group of Egyptian Christians and seizing the city of Sirte in 2015. The Attorney General’s office said in a statement that one other person was sentenced to 12 years in prison, six to 10 years, […]