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(Reuters) – Catalent will delay its quarterly filing with the U.S. securities regulator due to a goodwill impairment charge of about $700 million related to acquisitions in the company’s consumer health and biomodalities unit, the company said late Monday. The contract drug manufacturer, whose annual results were delayed several times this year to account for production snags, said it will report preliminary first-quarter results on Wednesday. The company in May […]

By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Abir Al Ahmar GAZA (Reuters) – People trapped inside Gaza’s Al Shifa Hospital plan to start burying bodies within the hospital compound on Tuesday without Israeli approval because the situation has become untenable, two sources at the hospital said. Dr. Ahmed Al Mokhallalati, a surgeon, and Gaza health ministry spokesman Ashraf Al-Qidra said in separate telephone interviews from within the compound that more than 100 bodies […]

(Reuters) – Catalent will delay its quarterly filing with the U.S. securities regulator due to a goodwill impairment charge of about $700 million related to acquisitions in the company’s consumer health and biomodalities unit, the company said late Monday. The contract drug manufacturer, whose annual results were delayed several times this year to account for production snags, said it will report preliminary first-quarter results on Wednesday. The company in May […]

THE HAGUE (Reuters) – Guyana on Tuesday asked the World Court to issue an emergency order for Venezuela to stop a Dec. 3 referendum over its rights to a potentially oil-rich territory that has been the subject of a long-running border dispute between the two neighbours. In April the International Court of Justice, as the World Court is formally known, ruled that it had jurisdiction over the issue. A final […]

LONDON (Reuters) -Britain should add the chickenpox vaccine to its routine childhood immunisation programme, the government’s health regulator said on Tuesday. The vaccine would be offered to children in two doses, at 12 and 18 months of age, the UK Health Security Agency said in a statement. The recommendation would bring the UK in line with many other countries, like the United States and Germany, which already routinely vaccinate children […]

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel’s military on Tuesday confirmed the death of a soldier held captive in Gaza after Hamas issued video of her alive followed by images of what the Palestinian faction said was her body after she was killed in an Israeli strike. It appeared to be the first time Israel has confirmed such a claim by Hamas, which in the past has said that dozens of hostages from […]

By Zeba Siddiqui, Christopher Bing and Raphael Satter SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has struggled to stop a hyper-aggressive cybercrime gang that’s been tormenting corporate America over the last two years, according to nine cybersecurity responders, digital crime experts and victims. For more than six months, the FBI has known the identities of at least a dozen members tied to the hacking group responsible […]

By Zeba Siddiqui, Christopher Bing and Raphael Satter SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has struggled to stop a hyper-aggressive cybercrime gang that’s been tormenting corporate America over the last two years, according to nine cybersecurity responders, digital crime experts and victims. For more than six months, the FBI has known the identities of at least a dozen members tied to the hacking group responsible […]

By Nicolás Misculin BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Peronism is dead. Long live the Peronists. Argentina’s main political force for decades, the ruling Peronists only months ago looked down and out. Voters seemed ready to abandon them as inflation soared over 100%, the peso currency plunged and poverty spread. Now the movement – which dates back to the 1940s, when it was founded by former President Juan Peron and his wife […]