By Rebecca Rubin LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – If three new movies debut in theaters, but nobody goes to see them… That is how Sony’s creepy thriller “The Invitation” managed to top box office charts with a paltry $7 million. Its win comes with some pretty weak bragging rights; it’s the lowest first-place finish since May …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s Bayer said on Sunday it was starting a Phase III study program to investigate the efficacy and safety of asundexian, an oral Factor XIa (FXIa) inhibitor. The drug candidate is a potential new treatment for patients with atrial fibrillation and in patients with a non-cardioembolic ischemic stroke or high-risk transient ischemic …
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) -Rival factions battled across Libya’s capital on Saturday in the worst fighting there in two years as a months-long political standoff burst into urban warfare that threatens to escalate into a wider conflict. A health ministry source said 23 people were killed in Saturday’s fighting including 17 civilians. The ministry earlier said 87 …
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(Reuters) – The United States plans to name an ambassador at large for the Arctic, reflecting the region’s growing strategic and commercial importance as its shrinking opens up new sea lanes and vast oil and mineral resources. Russia has reopened hundreds of Soviet-era military sites in the region, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on …
By Max Hunder KYIV (Reuters) -Moscow and Kyiv traded fresh accusations on Saturday of shelling around the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine, which has been a focus of international concern that fighting in the area could trigger a disaster. Zaporizhzhia, Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, has been controlled by Russian forces since early …
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By Steve Keating (Reuters) – Montenegro’s Danka Kovinic will find herself in an unfamiliar place in the tennis spotlight on the sport’s biggest stage on Monday playing the part of potential party pooper at Serena Williams’s U.S. Open retirement bash. Since turning professional in 2010, Kovinic has yet to crack the top 40 in the …
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By Kylie Madry MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Drenched by heavy rain, parents of the 43 Mexican students who went missing in 2014 held a somber procession through the streets of Mexico City on Friday, as they’ve done every month since their sons disappeared; but this time was different. The arrest of former federal Attorney General …
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By Ismail Shakil and Steve Scherer OTTAWA (Reuters) -Russia’s capabilities in the North are a strategic challenge for NATO, its Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Friday, welcoming Canada’s recently announced investments in North American defense systems after making his first visit to the Canadian arctic. “The importance of the high North is increasing for …
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By Umit Bektas MYKOLAIV, Ukraine (Reuters) – Actors in a heavily bombarded city in southern Ukraine have returned to the stage, putting on their first performance since Russia’s invasion in an underground shelter converted into a tiny theatre. A few dozen theatre-goers descended steep concrete steps into the subterranean venue on Thursday for the opening …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine has begun trying to resume operations at two reactors at the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine, regional governor Oleksandr Starukh said on Friday. The plant’s sixth reactor is working at 10% capacity, while the fifth reactor is in the process of resuming operations, he said in televised comments. …
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