By Renju Jose SYDNEY (Reuters) -A wild storm system has moved away from Sydney after pounding Australia’s largest city with four days of torrential rain, satellite images showed on Wednesday, although river waters stayed above danger levels, forcing more evacuations. The year’s third major flooding episode saw more than 85,000 people in New South Wales, …
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LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was clinging to power on Wednesday, gravely wounded by the resignation of ministers who said he was not fit to govern and with a growing number of lawmakers calling for him to go. Johnson narrowly survived a confidence vote last month, giving him 12 months of immunity …
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By Jonathan Spicer and Reade Levinson ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Ukraine has asked Turkey to help investigate three Russian-flagged ships as part of Kyiv’s efforts to probe what it alleges is the theft of grain from Russian-occupied territory, according to official documents. In a June 13 letter, which hasn’t previously been reported, the Ukrainian prosecutor general’s office …
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By Deena Beasley (Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will expedite its review of Eisai Co Ltd’s and Biogen Inc’s experimental Alzheimer’s drug lecanemab, with a decision due by Jan 6, 2023, the companies said on Tuesday. Lecanemab, like the partners’ previous drug Aduhelm, is an antibody designed to remove sticky deposits of a …
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By David Stanway SHANGHAI (Reuters) – On March 24, a court in the central Chinese city of Fuyang announced that a $1.5 billion hospital built just four years earlier had filed for bankruptcy because it was unable to pay its debts. For most of the last two years, the Fuyang Minsheng Hospital had been fully …
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(Reuters) – Russia pounded Ukraine’s eastern region of Donetsk after seizing Luhansk province following months of gruelling attritional warfare in which both sides lost many men. FIGHTING * Russian forces struck a market and a residential area in the city of Sloviansk near front lines in Donetsk, killing at least two people and injuring seven, …
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LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson appointed Nadhim Zahawi as finance minister on Tuesday, replacing Rishi Sunak who earlier quit in protest at Johnson’s leadership. Zahawi, 55, inherits an economy that is likely heading for a sharp slowdown or even a recession, and will face immediate pressure to do more to help struggling …
By Elizabeth Piper, Alistair Smout and Andrew MacAskill LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was fighting for his political survival on Tuesday after finance minister Rishi Sunak and another senior minister abruptly resigned over the latest scandal to blight his administration. Sunak and health minister Sajid Javid sent resignation letters to Johnson within minutes …
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By Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Iran added demands unrelated to discussions on its nuclear program during the latest talks and has made alarming progress on enriching uranium, the U.S. envoy for talks on reinstating a nuclear deal said on Tuesday. U.S. Special Envoy for Iran Robert Malley said that there was a proposal on …
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By David Brunnstrom and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will meet Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on the sidelines of a G20 foreign ministers’ gathering in Bali this week, but no meeting with Russia’s foreign minister is expected, the State Department said on Tuesday. Blinken is due to depart for …
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