CHISINAU (Reuters) – The pro-Kremlin head of Moldova’s Gagauzia region asked Russia on Friday for its support and to maintain close ties, after the pro-European Moldovan president said Moscow was mounting new efforts to destabilise her country. Eugenia Gutul, governor of Gagauzia, met the speaker of Russia’s upper house of …

(Reuters) – In what has been a tough first season at Chelsea for Mauricio Pochettino, the days following last weekend’s League Cup final loss to Liverpool have been the hardest, the manager said on Friday. Chelsea have 10 wins from their 25 league games as their expensive squad has struggled …

QUITO/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Ecuador has requested Mexico’s permission to enter that country’s embassy in Quito and arrest former Ecuadorean Vice-President Jorge Glas, the Ecuadorean Foreign Ministry said on Friday. Glas, convicted twice for corruption, asked Mexico for political asylum in December, arguing he is being persecuted by the attorney …

(Reuters) – British golfer Ian Poulter said he no longer sees himself playing in the Ryder Cup due to his age and the uproar that surrounded his switch to LIV Golf, which made him ineligible for Team Europe in the biennial team competition. Poulter, 48, was among many golfers who …

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – All eyes were on Argentina’s combative libertarian President Javier Milei on Friday ahead of a prime team state-of-the-union style speech set for the evening opening of Congress, even as protests started to build on the streets and markets rallied. The outsider economist and former TV pundit, …

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Days after the killing of Chad opposition politician Yaya Dillo, in disputed circumstances, many in the conflict-racked Central African nation are worried about how his allies, powerful relatives and rivals will react. HOW DID YAYA DILLO DIE? The Chadian government has said Dillo was killed in an …

DUBAI (Reuters) -Andrey Rublev was defaulted from the Dubai Tennis Championships semi-finals for unsportsmanlike conduct on Friday after yelling at a line judge in the final set of a tense encounter against Alexander Bublik. In a chaotic match where both semi-finalists fumed at the officials at various points, Rublev was …

KUALA LUMPUR, March 1 — A team of young taekwondo enthusiasts from rural Sabah faced a devastating setback when they missed their connecting flight from Sandakan to Kuala Lumpur for an international martial arts championship in the federal capital yesterday. However, their despair turned to hope when compassionate Malaysians came …