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By Andrew Silver SHANGHAI (Reuters) – A second Chinese drugmaker has applied for approval to sell a generic version of Novo Nordisk’s blockbuster diabetes drug Ozempic in China. Livzon Pharmaceutical Group said this week its subsidiary was seeking approval to sell the drug to control blood sugar in patients with type 2 diabetes and reduce …

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(Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said India would send a “high-level” delegation to an international summit in Switzerland on Ukraine this weekend after meeting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Italy on Friday. The leaders, who met on the sidelines of the Group of Seven summit, discussed trade, expanding ties and preparations for the summit, …

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By Stefanno Sulaiman and Stanley Widianto JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia has shut down more than 2 million websites offering illegal online gambling services, the communications minister said on Friday, saying the activity was “sucking the people’s blood dry”. Online gambling is prohibited in the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation, but last year more than 3 million …

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By Shivangi Acharya, Krishn Kaushik AYODHYA/VARANASI, India (Reuters) -A seminal moment in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s unsuccessful campaign to retain his parliamentary majority occurred days before India’s marathon election began in April.  Speaking in the constituency that includes the Hindu temple town of Ayodhya, lawmaker Lallu Singh said that his and Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party …

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JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s defeated presidential candidate Anies Baswedan announced he will run for Jakarta governor in a November vote, ending speculation about whether the opposition politician would seek to win back his old job. Baswedan, who served as Jakarta governor from 2017 to 2022, was trounced in February presidential elections by former special forces …

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By Laurie Chen and Liz Lee BEIJING (Reuters) -China, skipping a weekend summit on a peace plan for Ukraine, has been lobbying governments for its alternative plan, 10 diplomats said, with one calling Beijing’s campaign a “subtle boycott” of the global meeting in Switzerland. Ninety states and organisations have registered to take part in the …

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By Kate Lamb JAKARTA (Reuters) – It was hours after being admitted to a hospital in Belgium following a sharp landing from the uneven bars that Rifda Irfanaluthfi learned she had become the first Indonesian gymnast to qualify for the Olympics. In the back of an ambulance, the 24-year-old had been furiously firing off messages. …

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By Alasdair Pal and Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON (Reuters) -Chinese Premier Li Qiang met New Zealand government and business leaders on Friday, on the second day of a regional tour that includes neighbouring Australia and signals a warming in ties between the Pacific nations and their biggest trading partner. Li visited the New Zealand Institute for …

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By David Kirton and Laurie Chen GUANGZHOU/BEIJING (Reuters) -Leading Chinese #MeToo activist Huang Xueqin was sentenced to five years in prison after being found guilty on Friday of subverting state power at a court in southern China, according to a group campaigning for her release and a copy of the verdict. Huang, a 35-year-old independent …

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