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PARIS (AP) — Acclaimed Iranian-French cartoonist and filmmaker Marjane Satrapi, a prominent advocate for women’s rights, has died at 56, the French presidency said Thursday. “Her passing marks the loss of a leading figure of French culture and an artist devoted to freedom, whose work carried a universal message and earned her immense international acclaim,” the French presidency said in a statement. President Emmanuel Macron and his wife “pay tribute […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A year ago, the White House was unleashing a blitz on higher education. At one campus after another, Trump officials opened investigations and cut federal funding unless schools fell in line with the Republican president’s political agenda. Now, after a campaign that put dozens of universities under investigation, President Donald Trump’s administration is taking a wider approach, moving to rewrite the federal rules that govern all of […]

June 4 (Reuters) – ADC Therapeutics shares slumped nearly 53% in premarket trading on Thursday after a late-stage study testing its blood cancer drug showed more deaths among treated patients, despite meeting its main goal of improving progression-free survival. The confirmatory study tested ADC’s Zynlonta along with Roche’s monoclonal antibody Rituxan in patients with relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, an aggressive, fast-growing blood cancer that affects the lymphatic […]

PARIS, June 4 (Reuters) – French warplanes were scrambled 11 times over the last week as part of NATO’s Baltic Air Policing Mission, France’s armed forces spokesperson said on Thursday, describing the incursions as a higher-than-usual number of “provocations”. The mission protects the airspace of the three Baltic states – Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania – through rotating deployments of NATO fighter jets, filling gaps in their own capabilities. Aircraft are […]

By Aleksandar Vasovic PODGORICA, June 4 (Reuters) – When Air Montenegro’s passenger planes took to the skies earlier this year, they were branded with a new slogan: “28 by 28 – The Next EU Member”. The message sums up the tiny Balkan nation’s political ambition to become the 28th member of the European Union in 2028, and the first to join since Croatia in 2013.  Montenegro, with a population of […]

June 4 (Reuters) – Innio is set to make its U.S. market debut later on Thursday after strong investor interest helped the gas engine manufacturer raise $2.43 billion in an upsized initial public offering. Investors are piling into companies underpinning the AI buildout, broadening enthusiasm beyond chip firms to the “picks and shovels” businesses supplying the infrastructure needed to support the technology’s expansion. Innio sits at the heart of the […]

By Jana Choukeir DUBAI, June 4 (Reuters) – A new U.S.-mediated ceasefire agreement between Israel and Lebanon raised hopes on Thursday for progress toward ending the wider U.S.-Israeli war with Iran, though there was still uncertainty about how and when it would be implemented. Tehran has made a ceasefire in Lebanon a condition for any peace deal with Washington, and has suggested in recent days that it could intervene directly […]

June 4 (Reuters) – Several people were killed when a small plane crashed on Thursday in the northwestern Croatian region of Istria, near the Adriatic town of Medulin, state news agency Hina reported, citing police. According to unofficial information, four people were found dead and rescuers were searching for two more people.  Noone from the Istrian police was immediately available to comment. The police said that emergency services, police and […]

BRUSSELS, June 4 (Reuters) – Clashes broke out between protesters and police in Brussels on Thursday, as a demonstration against planned reforms to part of the country’s education sector turned violent. The Brussels police department advised people on its X account to avoid the area around Brussels’ central station, while Reuters TV crews and photographers at the scene saw debris left behind after bikes and street signs had been vandalised. […]