QUITO (Reuters) – Ecuador’s National Assembly chose a conservative as its president on Friday as the new legislative period began, amid a deal between the parties of President-elect Daniel Noboa and ex-President Rafael Correa to form a majority. Businessman Henry Kronfle, 51, was elected with 128 votes from the legislature’s …

DAKAR (Reuters) – The presidential ambitions of jailed Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko suffered two setbacks on Friday after the Supreme Court annulled a lower court’s decision ordering his reinstatement in the voter roll. Separately, a West African regional court backed the government of Senegal in a legal battle with …

BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s first-choice keeper Marc Andre ter Stegen has been ruled out of their friendly internationals against Turkey and Austria with a back injury, coach Julian Nagelsmann said on Friday. Barcelona’s Ter Stegen, who has been the Germany’s keeper since Manuel Neuer broke his leg a year ago …

THE HAGUE (Reuters) -Judges at the World Court on Friday ordered Azerbaijan to let ethnic Armenians who fled Nagorno-Karabakh in September return, and to keep the Armenians remaining in the enclave safe, as part of a set of emergency measures. Azerbaijan in September recaptured the region, then controlled by its …

(Reuters) – A nonprofit that monitors online hate speech urged a U.S. federal judge to throw out what it called a “ridiculous” lawsuit by Elon Musk’s X Corp to stifle free expression. X, formerly Twitter, sued the Center for Countering Digital Hate in July, accusing it of trying to drive …

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The Netherlands might be struggling with injuries going into their penultimate Euro 2024 qualifier against Ireland on Saturday but coach Ronald Koeman is still optimistic about their chances of securing a berth at next year’s finals in Germany. The Dutch are without injured defenders Nathan Ake, Sven …

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Three music publishers are asking a federal court judge to issue a preliminary injunction that would prevent artificial intelligence company Anthropic from reproducing or distributing their copyrighted song lyrics. Universal Music, Concord Music Group and ABKCO Music filed a motion Thursday asking for the court to require …

(Reuters) – Nicolai Hojgaard carded a second-round 66 to take a two-stroke halfway lead at the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai after a stunning comeback on the back nine on Friday to get to 11-under overall. The Dane shared a three-way tie for the lead with Frenchmen Julien Guerrier …

LONDON (Reuters) – Booker-prize winning British novelist Antonia Susan Byatt, known most commonly as A.S. Byatt, has died aged 87, her publisher said in a statement on Friday. Byatt, whose career spanned nearly 60 years, was best known for her 1990 novel “Possession: A Romance”. She was the sister of …