(Reuters) – Former Slovak prime minister Igor Matovic and ex-interior minister Robert Kalinak scuffled on Wednesday after Matovic crashed an outdoor campaign event of Kalinak’s SMER-SSD party. Matovic is an anti-graft campaigner whose OLANO party won the last election in 2020 but who ultimately was ousted as prime minister due …

(Reuters) – As shells rained down on her neighbourhood in Sudan’s Nyala city on Aug. 23, Mahla Adam decided to rush home instead of sheltering under a nearby bridge as she and many others had done during countless clashes. But this time, a projectile hit next to the bridge, and …

LONDON (Reuters) – France’s radiation watchdog has banned sales of Apple’s iPhone 12 after tests that it said showed the smartphone breached European radiation exposure limits. The Agence Nationale des Fréquences (ANFR) said on Tuesday the model’s Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) – a measure of the rate of radiofrequency energy …

NICE, France (Reuters) – Flyhalf Gareth Anscombe will make a first appearance of the year following injury in a Wales side with 13 changes to take on Pool C minnows Portugal in their Rugby World Cup fixture in Nice on Saturday. After a bruising 32-26 victory over Fiji in their …

KINSHASA (Reuters) – A high court in Democratic Republic of Congo has sentenced presidential candidate Jean-Marc Kabund to seven years in prison on 12 charges including spreading false rumours and insulting the head of state, his lawyer said on Wednesday. Kabund was a former vice president of parliament and a …

KUALA LUMPUR: The Parliamentary Special Select Committee on Domestic Trade, Entrepreneurship, Cost of Living and Agriculture, among others, recommended that the 2024 allocation for the Rahmah Sales Programme be increased. The committee, in a statement on Wednesday (Sept 13), said the recommendations, made after the committee meeting on Tuesday (Sept …

ROME (Reuters) – A huge number of migrants have reached Italy by sea from North Africa, causing problems for Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s right-wing government after it promised tighter controls. Here is an overview of the situation. HOW SERIOUS IS THE SITUATION? Since Jan. 1, around 118,500 sea migrants have …

(Reuters) – After months of testing, Adobe on Wednesday opened up access to a range of generative artificial intelligence features across its software, with plans to raise prices but also to pay the contributors whose work helps make the features possible. Adobe makes Photoshop and other editing tools that form …

(Reuters) – Laws designed to protect players are necessary but just how and when they are implemented needs much more scrutiny, veteran Argentina hooker Agustin Creevy said on Wednesday. England’s Tom Curry received the first red card of the World Cup when he clashed heads with Argentine fullback Juan Cruz …

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s jail remand related to charges of leaking state secrets was extended by two weeks on Wednesday, his lawyer said. The 70-year-old former cricket star has been at the centre of a political crisis since he lost a confidence vote in parliament in …