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By Patrick Wingrove Sept 7 (Reuters) – Novo Nordisk said on Monday it had halted two additional trials of its experimental cardiovascular drug ziltivekimab, further denting the Danish drugmaker’s efforts to diversify beyond its blockbuster obesity and diabetes franchise. In July, Novo said ziltivekimab failed to reduce the risk of major adverse cardiovascular events, including death, non-fatal heart attack and non-fatal stroke, compared with placebo in a late-stage trial. On […]

By Gilles Guillaume PARIS, Sept 7 (Reuters) – Premium German car brand Audi on Monday introduced a new compact electric vehicle to boost its presence at the smaller end of the European market, where Chinese automakers are launching more affordable models, and help revive its global sales. Sales at Audi, a unit of Volkswagen, have fallen for two consecutive years and slid 7% in the first half of 2026 as […]

NAIROBI, Sept 7 (Reuters) – Hundreds of Burundians flocked to their country’s embassy in Kenya’s capital on Monday seeking travel documents to return to Burundi after Kenyan President William Ruto ordered a crackdown on small-scale traders from abroad.  Clutching suitcases and assorted possessions, crowds of mostly young men formed long queues outside the embassy in Nairobi. “There are so many people who have come here and we don’t know when […]

Sept 7 (Reuters) – U.S. artificial intelligence firm OpenAI has sent the European Commission a report regarding a hijack of a German website by rogue agents, a Commission spokesperson said on Monday. Reuters reported that a swarm of rogue OpenAI agents hijacked a German website this spring and transformed it into a bulletin board for other AI agents, citing research publication and two sources. “Incident reports are not just a […]

BELGRADE, Sept 7 (Reuters) – Thousands of people gathered in front of a church in Belgrade to pay respects to former Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic who died last week while serving a life sentence for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.   Mladic remains a revered figure among many Serbs in Serbia and in Bosnia’s autonomous Serb Republic, despite his convictions linked to his role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre […]

COPENHAGEN, Sept 7 (Reuters) – Novo Nordisk said on Monday that in a late-stage trial, 40.4% of children aged 6 to under 12 treated with semaglutide, the active ingredient in its blockbuster weight-loss drug Wegovy, were no longer classified as having obesity after 68 weeks, assuming full adherence to the treatment. All patients enrolled in the trial, called STEP Young, received lifestyle modification throughout the trial, including a reduced-calorie diet and […]

MOSCOW, Sept 7 (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Monday that it did not rule out the resumption of peace talks between Russia, Ukraine and the United States, but said it was too early to say when and where such talks might take place.   Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov made the comments when asked about a weekend visit to Moscow and Kyiv by U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner who […]

BERLIN, Sept 7 (Reuters) – Prosecutors in the eastern German state of Saxony said on Monday that authorities had found a total of 21 explosive devices as part of their investigations into attacks on the electricity grid that have kept authorities on high alert for days. Investigators discovered nine additional homemade explosive devices over the weekend near high-voltage power lines south of the Graustein substation in the eastern German district […]

LONDON, Sept 7 (Reuters) – British luxury carmaker Jaguar Land Rover said on Monday it would cut around 4,000 jobs globally over the next two years as part of a broader plan to reduce costs and improve competitiveness. The manufacturer, which has major sites in central England, said it was targeting 1.7 billion pounds ($2.30 billion) of savings, lowering its break-even point towards 300,000 vehicles. JLR employs about 30,000 in the […]