WUHAN, China, Oct 18 (Reuters) – French Open finalist Maja Chwalinska won her first title on the WTA tour as she shook off early nerves to beat Sonay Kartal 2-6 6-4 6-2 at the Wuhan Open final on Sunday. Left-hander Chwalinska deployed a defensive right-handed…
By Amanda Stephenson FORT MCMURRAY, Alberta, Oct 18 (Reuters) – Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney is betting a new pipeline can help revive the country’s oil industry, boost its production and exports, and reduce its dependence on the United States. Bringing back jobs will be…
SEOUL, Oct 18 (Reuters) – Samsung Electronics will use TSMC’s 3-nanometre process to produce base dies for Nvidia’s next-generation custom high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips, the Seoul Economic Daily reported on Sunday. The move would mark the first time Samsung has worked with the Taiwanese contract…
By Clotaire Achi LIMOGES, France, Oct 18 (Reuters) – Residents in Limoges recoiled in horror on Sunday at the city’s fire-ravaged town hall, an ornate 19th century neo-Renaissance building which survived two world wars but was torched by a masked mob during the worst unrest…
Oct 18 (Reuters) – India will reduce the prices of as many as 137 cancer drugs by 70%, the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers said on Saturday, as it widened price controls in a bid to make treatment more affordable. Trade margins on the drugs…
TIRANA, Oct 18 (Reuters) – Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama on Sunday rejected calls to step down from growing street protests, and said they were a threat not to his government but to Albania’s progress toward joining the European Union. Student-led demonstrations, fuelled by anger…
BRUSSELS, Oct 18 (Reuters) – The European Union “strongly condemns” attacks by violent settlers in the West Bank, including against European diplomats, the bloc’s foreign policy spokesperson said on Sunday. The statement came a day after Belgian Foreign Minister Maxime Prevot said Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian…
Oct 18 (Reuters) – One person was killed and 15 were injured in a Ukrainian drone attack on oil facilities, logistics and data centres in Russia’s St Petersburg and the Leningrad region, local authorities said on Sunday. St Petersburg’s governor Alexander Beglov said fires had…
By Andrea Shalal and David Lawder BANGKOK, Oct 18 (Reuters) – Last week’s meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank yielded no new answers for the developing world to the questions posed by a spreading Middle East war, continuing war in Ukraine, rising…
DUBAI, Oct 18 (Reuters) – Iran’s offer to the United States to reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days is still on the table, Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi told Iranian media outlets on Sunday. Iran presented its proposal in mid-September after an interim ceasefire…
