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May 6 (Reuters) – Diageo posted 0.3% growth in quarterly organic net sales on Wednesday, driven by strong demand for its Guinness beer in Britain and Ireland and customers in Latin America and the Caribbean stocking up ahead of the soccer World Cup. Analysts had expected a 2.3% decline in organic net sales for the three months ended March, according to a company-compiled poll. The world’s top spirits maker, however, […]

May 6 (Reuters) – Bayer said on Wednesday that it will buy biopharmaceutical company Perfuse Therapeutics to complement its ophthalmology pipeline. The deal has a potential value of up to $2.45 billion, the company said in a statement, with a $300 million upfront payment and additional development, regulatory and commercial milestone payments based on success criteria. (Reporting by Linda PasquiniEditing by David Goodman) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

May 6 (Reuters) – Ukraine accused Russia of violating a ceasefire initiated by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy at midnight on Wednesday, with officials reporting one person killed and three wounded in frontline areas in the north and east of the country. “Russia violated the ceasefire initiated by Ukraine at midnight between May 5th and 6th,” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said on X. Sybiha said Russian attacks continued throughout the night, […]

By Alessandro Diviggiano and Maxim Shemetov CHANGSHA, China, May 6 (Reuters) – Senior Chinese officials took charge of rescue and relief efforts after a fireworks factory explosion killed 26 and injured 61, flattening buildings and burying people in mounds of debris, as they pledged to punish those responsible. Smoke still billowed from the plant two days after Monday’s powerful explosion in the city of Liuyang in the southern province of […]

Amid the uncertainty surrounding LIV Golf’s future, one of its stars, Bryson DeChambeau, is contemplating his next move if the circuit shuts down after this season, including a possible return to the PGA Tour. PIF announced last week that it will no longer fund LIV Golf with $30 million purses. The 32-year-old DeChambeau, a two-time major champion, told reporters Tuesday that he has talked with the PGA Tour, while also […]

BRUSSELS (AP) — Driven in part by fears that the frozen landscapes of Antarctica may be irreversibly melting away because of climate change, tourism to the bottom of the world is soaring. And experts warn that with more visitors comes an increased risk of contamination, illness and other damage to the continent. While visitor numbers are still small — in part due to the high costs and time it can […]

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A fire in a shopping center near Iran’s capital killed eight people and injured 40, Tehran’s emergency service department said Wednesday. The fire started Tuesday in the Arghavan shopping center in Andisheh town in Tehran province. It was not clear what caused the blaze. Iran’s state television IRIB said authorities were investigating. Television footage showed firefighters battling the flames as large plumes of black smoke billowed […]

LONDON (AP) — British voters will cast ballots Thursday in elections that could hasten the end of Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s troubled term and confirm that an increasingly fractured United Kingdom has entered an era of messy multiparty politics. Starmer’s center-left Labour Party is expected to take a battering in elections for local authorities across England and for semiautonomous legislatures in Scotland and Wales. With the prime minister’s popularity in […]

ATHENS, May 6 (Reuters) – Greece has rescued all nine members of the crew of a cargo ship that ran aground and sank off the island of Andros early on Wednesday, the country’s coast guard said. The freighter had sailed off Albania with hundreds of metric tons of soda on board and was bound for Ukraine when it hit rocks off the island of Andros and sank, an official from […]