(Reuters) – Chelsea defender Thiago Silva will miss Saturday’s Premier League visit to second-placed Manchester City after suffering a groin injury in Monday’s 3-1 win at Crystal Palace, manager Mauricio Pochettino said. Brazilian Silva, who has made 23 league appearances this season, left the field in the second half after …

(Reuters) -Following are reactions in Russia and abroad to the death of jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, reported on Friday by the prison service of the Yamalo-Nenets region where he had been serving his sentence. RUSSIAN OFFICIALS KREMLIN SPOKESMAN DMITRY PESKOV Peskov said President Vladimir Putin has been told …

WALL Street’s main indexes ticked lower on Friday after a hotter-than-expected producer prices report pushed back market speculations of imminent interest rate cuts by the U.S. Federal Reserve. A Labor Department report showed U.S. producer prices increased more than expected in January amid strong gains in the costs of services, …

(Reuters) – Applied Materials shares rose 13% in premarket trading on Friday after the semiconductor equipment supplier forecast a better-than-expected second quarter on strong demand from customers looking to make AI-enabled chips. The outlook was also supported by improvement in certain electronics end-markets like smartphones and personal computers, and analysts …

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Alexei Navalny, Russia’s most prominent opposition leader, died on Friday after collapsing and losing consciousness at the penal colony north of the Arctic Circle where he was serving a long jail term, the Russian prison service said. OPPOSITION LEADER Navalny, 47, became the leading figure among Russia’s …

LONDON (Reuters) – Tottenham Hotspur will be without both first choice full-backs when they continue their push for a top-four finish against Wolverhampton Wanderers in the Premier League on Saturday. Italian Destiny Udogie and Spaniard Pedro Porro are ruled out for the home clash with mid-table Wolves as the injuries …

ACCRA (Reuters) – A Ghanaian legislator has asked parliament to replace jail terms for gay sex with non-custodial sentences including counselling, saying the anti-LGBT bill currently making its way through the legislature would only encourage sodomy in prisons. A coalition of Christian, Muslim, and Ghanaian traditional leaders have sponsored the …

(Reuters) – India’s technology sector is expected to grow at a slower pace this fiscal year as clients hold back spending and delay decision-making, its main industry body said on Friday. The National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom) expects the industry’s revenue to grow 3.8% to $253.9 billion, …

SINGAPORE: Singapore is budgeting for a “small surplus” of S$0.8 billion (S$1=RM3.55) for the financial year 2024, or 0.1 per cent of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP), which is essentially a balanced fiscal position, said Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Lawrence Wong. “The overall stance is appropriate, as …

LEPOSAVIC, Kosovo (Reuters) – U.S. peacekeeping troops in Kosovo are well equipped and stand ready to prevent violence in the country’s ethnically divided north, often the scene of armed clashes in which most recently a policeman was killed, a commander told Reuters. NATO has reinforced its presence with another 1,000 …