(Reuters) – Former England captain Steph Houghton has a slim chance of making the women’s World Cup squad but the door is “never closed” on a potential return, coach Sarina Wiegman said on Monday. Houghton had said it had been mentally tough to deal with her exclusion from the national team but added she would …
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By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis said on Monday he was praying that the Good Friday agreement signed 25 years ago that largely ended violence in Northern Ireland can be “consolidated” to benefit the people of all of Ireland. Francis made the comment about the 1998 agreement, which has come under strain …
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LONDON (Reuters) – King Charles and his wife Camilla will travel to and from their coronation next month in Britain’s oldest and newest royal carriages in a grand procession that will be shorter than that taken by his mother 70 years ago, Buckingham Palace said on Sunday. Charles will be crowned at London’s Westminster Abbey …
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LEEDS, England (Reuters) -Crystal Palace fought back from a goal down to secure a crushing 5-1 win at Leeds United on Sunday and claim a second successive Premier League win under new manager Roy Hodgson. Despite the absence of injured top scorer Wilfried Zaha, four second-half goals moved Palace up to 12th in the standings …
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By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) – A quarter of century since the signing of a peace deal that largely ended violence in Northern Ireland, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said efforts had to be intensified to restore the power-sharing government central to the accord. Signed in Belfast on April 10, 1998, the Good Friday agreement …
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PARIS (Reuters) -Four people have died and nine others have been injured in an avalanche southwest of Mont Blanc in the French Alps, interior minister Gerald Darmanin said on Sunday. The avalanche occurred in the middle of the day on the Armancette glacier, he wrote on Twitter. Those caught up in it were backcountry skiing …
By Steve Keating AUGUSTA, Georgia (Reuters) -Rock-steady Jon Rahm, channeling Spanish great Seve Ballesteros on his late hero’s birthday, survived a marathon day and scored an emotional Masters win at Augusta National on Sunday, denying LIV Golf a watershed victory. Rahm, who started the day four off the lead, rallied behind a final round three-under …
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By Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Highly classified military and intelligence documents that appeared online, with details ranging from Ukraine’s air defenses to Israel’s Mossad spy agency, have U.S. officials scrambling to identify the leak’s source, with some Western security experts and U.S. officials saying they suspected it could be someone from the United States. Officials …
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(Reuters) – Former England captain Steph Houghton has said it has been tough to deal with her omission from the national team as she aims to reach this year’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. Houghton, who captained England for eight years, was not called up by coach Sarina Wiegman for last year’s Euros …
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(Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy denounced Russian air strikes coinciding with the observance of Orthodox Palm Sunday, including an attack that killed a father and daughter at home in the city of Zaporizhzhia. Ukraine’s military reported Russian attacks and shelling throughout the front, with the heaviest fighting still focused on two cities in eastern Donetsk …
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