Oct 16 (Reuters) – American Brandon Figueroa has been stripped of his WBA featherweight title after hitting the scales 1.4 pounds over the 126-pound weight limit for Saturday’s fight against Tomoki Kameda of Japan, organisers said on Friday. Kameda, 35, will be able to clinch…
By Andrea Shalal and Jan Strupczewski BANGKOK, Oct 17 (Reuters) – Many delegates to the International Monetary Fund’s steering committee walked out of a meeting on Saturday when Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov addressed the group in Russian, three sources familiar with the matter said.…
By Maria Martinez BANGKOK, Oct 17 (Reuters) – Germany’s development minister is seeking an exemption from the country’s debt brake, a constitutional limit on government borrowing, for Ukraine funding, arguing that much of Germany’s civilian support for Ukraine comes from her ministry’s budget. “The Russian…
By Elizabeth Pineau PARIS, Oct 17 (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of people are expected to protest across France on Saturday, as students, trade unionists and remnants of the Yellow Vest movement join forces to demonstrate against high prices and the country’s fraying social model.…
Oct 17 (Reuters) – Former Giro d’Italia winner and Olympic champion Richard Carapaz joined NSN Cycling Team on Friday, after leaving EF Education-EasyPost a year before the end of his contract. The 33-year-old Ecuadorean, who won the Giro in 2019 and road race gold at…
SYDNEY, Oct 17 (Reuters) – Australia on Saturday confirmed its first case of H5N1 bird flu on the sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island, with the deadly virus found in the remote territory’s vulnerable elephant seal population. • Australia’s Chief Veterinary Officer Beth Cookson said official testing confirmed…
Oct 16 (Reuters) – The California Department of Education said on Friday a hacker accessed the data of millions of students, including names, birth dates, addresses and disability status, by exploiting the system of a non-profit contractor that works with the state. The hacker accessed…
MEXICO CITY, Oct 16 (Reuters) – A Mexican judge on Friday sentenced three men to 158 years and nine months in prison each for the killings of two Australian brothers and their American friend during a 2024 surf trip to the state of Baja California,…
SAO PAULO, Oct 16 (Reuters) – Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro said on Friday that, if elected president, he would seek to curb Brazil’s rising public debt without touching politically sensitive social spending commitments, rejecting media reports that his campaign was considering such measures. The right-wing…
By Jasper Ward WASHINGTON, Oct 16 (Reuters) – The US Justice Department on Friday warned Los Angeles County and California election officials they could be liable as abettors of a federal crime if they count mail ballots returned by more than 20,000 people the Trump…
