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(Reuters) – Russian and U.S. space authorities have agreed an additional flight for an American astronaut on board Russia’s Soyuz MS spacecraft, Interfax news agency said on Friday, in a rare sign of bilateral cooperation at a time of high tension over Ukraine. The flight is part of an agreement between Russia’s space agency Roscosmos and NASA in the United States on cross-flights to the International Space Station (ISS). “One […]

(Corrects company name in first paragraph to “Marvell Technology” from “Marvell Technologies”) (Reuters) -Chipmaker Marvell Technology posted a fall in second-quarter revenue, as weak enterprise market along with economic uncertainty weighed on demand for its chips and networking hardware. Shares of the California-based company fell 5% in after-market trading. Companies are holding off on upgrades to their technology infrastructure as an uncertain economic outlook clouds future prospects. Marvell’s recovery in […]

DUBAI/GENEVA (Reuters) -Sudan’s military ruler has visited army bases near to the capital on his first trip away from Khartoum since an internal conflict broke out in April, as the United Nations warned that the war could tip the entire region into a humanitarian catastrophe. General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan also intends to leave Sudan for talks in neighboring countries after visiting regional bases and Port Sudan, the temporary government seat, […]

DUBAI/GENEVA (Reuters) -Sudan’s military ruler has visited army bases near to the capital on his first trip away from Khartoum since an internal conflict broke out in April, as the United Nations warned that the war could tip the entire region into a humanitarian catastrophe. General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan also intends to leave Sudan for talks in neighboring countries after visiting regional bases and Port Sudan, the temporary government seat, […]

HONG KONG/BEIJING (Reuters) -Chinese authorities are planning to cut stamp duty on stock trading by as much as 50%, three people with knowledge of the matter said, in a further attempt to revitalise the country’s struggling stock market. Regulators including the Ministry of Finance, under the guidance of the State Council, submitted a draft proposal to the cabinet earlier this month, said two of the people, adding a decision could […]

(Reuters) -Merck & Co and partner Eisai said on Friday they will shut down a late-stage study testing an experimental combination therapy for a type of head and neck cancer after an interim analysis showed it failed to prolong lives of patients. The therapy, Merck’s blockbuster drug Keytruda in combination with Eisai’s Lenvima, failed to show statistical significance in extending overall survival, one of the three main goals of the […]

DUBAI (Reuters) – Qatar is balancing its relationships with both the United States and China and one link does not damage the other, Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman al-Thani said on Friday. China’s growing influence in the Gulf has unnerved the United States – an issue that came into focus this week as Saudi Arabia and the UAE signed up to join Beijing in the BRICS group of states. […]

LONDON (Reuters) – Novo Nordisk CEO Lars Fruergaard Jorgensen spoke at a Reuters Newsmaker event on Friday. Below are some quotes from his interview which focused on the company’s hugely popular Wegovy weight-loss drug. ON RISING OBESITY RATES “The growth of obesity is really linked to how we live today. If one reflects on how each one of us moves around in society today, compared to our childhood, I remember […]

ATHENS (Reuters) – Blazes in Greece burned for a seventh day on Friday, destroying tens of thousands of hectares of land in the northeast alone, in what the EU-backed Copernicus Climate Change Service said was the largest recorded wildfire on European soil in years. “Greece is going through the most difficult year, in terms of climatic conditions, in the history of recording and collecting meteorological data,” government spokesperson Pavlos Marinakis […]