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KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine plans to sue Poland, Hungary and Slovakia over bans on Ukrainian agricultural products, Agriculture Minister Mykola Solsky said on Monday. “I think (it will be) in the near future,” he told Reuters. Politico had earlier on Monday quoted Ukrainian Trade Representative Taras Kachka as saying in an interview that Kyiv planned to sue the three countries. Restrictions imposed by the European Union in May allowed Poland, Bulgaria, […]

By Ahmed Elumami and Ayman al-Warfali DERNA, Libya (Reuters) – “I lost my daughter. Her mother is convinced that she is still alive. I am convinced that she is dead,” says Ahmed Ashour, 62. “The girl left me with a 3-month-old baby.” A week after the flood that swept the centre of the city of Derna into the sea, families are still coping with the unbearable losses of their dead […]

By Aditya Kalra and M. Sriram DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) – India’s Torrent Pharmaceuticals is in talks with private equity funds CVC Capital Partners and Bain Capital to raise up to $1.5 billion to bid for India’s Cipla, according to three sources with direct knowledge of the matter. Torrent and Blackstone are among those interested to acquire a stake in Cipla, India’s third-biggest drugmaker by sales, in what could be the largest […]

(Fixes seventh paragraph to say Iranians are held in U.S.) By Andrew Mills DOHA (Reuters) -Iran and the United States have been informed that $6 billion in frozen Iranian funds were transferred to accounts in Qatar, a source said, triggering a carefully choreographed swap on Monday of five detainees each between the two arch foes. Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani said the funds, which had been frozen in South […]

By Jennifer Rigby LONDON (Reuters) -Climate change and conflict are hitting efforts to tackle three of the world’s deadliest infectious diseases, the head of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has warned. International initiatives to fight the diseases have largely recovered after being badly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Fund’s 2023 results report released on Monday. But the increasing challenges of climate change and […]

(Reuters) -“They knew.” When hydrologist Abdul Wanis Ashour began researching the system of dams protecting the eastern Libya port town of Derna 17 years ago, the peril facing residents was already no secret, he said. “When I gathered the data, I found a number of problems in the Derna Valley: in the cracks present in the dams, the amount of rainfall and repeated floods,” he told Reuters. “I found also […]

By Aditya Kalra and M. Sriram DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) – India’s Torrent Pharmaceuticals is in talks with private equity funds CVC Capital Partners and Bain Capital to raise up to $1.5 billion to bid for India’s Cipla, according to three sources with direct knowledge of the matter. Torrent and Blackstone are among those interested to acquire a stake in Cipla, India’s third-biggest drugmaker by sales, in what could be the largest […]

BEIJING (Reuters) – China has complained to Germany after its foreign minister labelled President Xi Jinping a “dictator”, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Monday, calling the title “absurd” and an “open political provocation”. German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock made the remarks in a live interview with Fox News last week when asked about Russia’s war on Ukraine. “If Putin were to win this war, what sign would that be […]

By Jennifer Rigby LONDON (Reuters) -Climate change and conflict are hitting efforts to tackle three of the world’s deadliest infectious diseases, the head of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has warned. International initiatives to fight the diseases have largely recovered after being badly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Fund’s 2023 results report released on Monday. But the increasing challenges of climate change and […]