By Deena Beasley (Reuters) -The European Commission has granted marketing authorization for Gilead Sciences’ twice-yearly injection for preventing HIV infection, the company said on Tuesday. The drug, known scientifically as lenacapavir, will be sold in Europe under the brand name Yeytuo. It was approved in June by regulators in the U.S., where it is marketed …
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By Elizabeth Pineau PARIS (Reuters) -France found itself mired in yet another crisis on Tuesday, after Prime Minister Francois Bayrou’s gamble to win backing for his deeply unpopular debt-reduction plan backfired, plunging the country deeper into political and financial instability. French markets tumbled after Bayrou jolted the political establishment out of its summer slumber on …
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KYIV (Reuters) -Russia has captured two villages in Ukraine’s southeastern Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukrainian open-source researchers confirmed on Tuesday, as Kremlin troops press an offensive amid a stalling diplomatic effort to end the war. Ukraine’s outmanned and outgunned military has struggled to fend off grinding Russian advances in much of the east as Moscow increases pressure …
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By Riham Alkousaa BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany is set to lift its months-long ban on the entry of vulnerable Afghan nationals it had pledged to admit, a foreign ministry official said on Tuesday, after mounting legal pressure at home and a deportation push by Pakistan. Around 2,000 Afghans approved for relocation to Germany under a programme …
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BERLIN (Reuters) -Russian state assets frozen since the start of the Ukraine war should stay in the Euroclear securities repository in Belgium for now, the Belgian prime minister said on Tuesday, adding that seizing them to benefit Ukraine would raise legal issues. G7 countries have frozen some $300 billion of Russian sovereign assets since Moscow’s …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said that he had discussed nuclear arms control with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the summit in Alaska – and that China should be involved too – with the ultimate aim of “denuclearization”. What has Putin offered Trump on nuclear weapons and what might he offer? PUTIN’S OFFER Just …
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PRISTINA (Reuters) -Kosovo’s parliament on Tuesday elected a new speaker, ending a six-month legislative crisis that had blocked efforts by the outgoing Prime Minister Albin Kurti to form a new government after an inconclusive election in February. Under Kosovo’s constitution, a parliamentary speaker must be voted in before the election winner can form a government, …
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By Emily Rose JERUSALEM (Reuters) -As Israelis staged a “Day of Disruption” to pressure their government to win the release of hostages in Gaza, Doron Steinbrecher reflected on her 471 days in captivity and said she hoped all the remaining hostages would be set free soon. “I begged them not to kill me,” she said …
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KYIV (Reuters) -One miner was killed and three were injured in a Russian attack on a coal mine owned by Ukraine’s largest energy company DTEK near front lines in the eastern Donetsk region, DTEK said on Tuesday. Russian invasion forces have in recent weeks stepped up their offensive in eastern Ukraine, where most of the …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia hopes that a U.S.-Russian joint venture involving Boeing in the Sverdlovsk region can resume its operations, Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov told the TASS state news agency in an interview. The joint venture between Russia’s largest titanium maker VSMPO-AVISMA and U.S. aircraft manufacturer Boeing halted operations in 2022 after Boeing …
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