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By Gianluca Lo Nostro June 2 (Reuters) – Abivax shares tumbled on Tuesday after the French biotech reported late-stage data for its experimental inflammatory bowel drug, with investors focusing on safety concerns even as the treatment showed strong efficacy. The shares were down 30% in early Paris trading, leading losses on Europe’s STOXX 600 benchmark index, after a spectacular rally last year that saw the stock rise more than 16-fold. […]

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Social Democrat Mette Frederiksen is set to begin a third term as Denmark’s prime minister, leading a center‑left coalition of four parties after two months of negotiations. Besides Frederiksen’s own party, the new government will include the centrist Moderate party of outgoing Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen, the Green Left (SF) and the Danish Social Liberal Party, the Danish Royal House said in a statement Monday. […]

By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA, June 2 (Reuters) – The United Nations weather agency on Tuesday forecast a moderate or possibly strong El Nino that could drive up global temperatures and increase the risk of extreme weather over the coming months.  El Nino is a periodic warming of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean, ​which typically lasts between nine and 12 months, according ​to the World Meteorological […]

Cole Young’s broken-bat bloop single to left field brought home the winning run with one out in the bottom of the 10th inning as the Seattle Mariners defeated the visiting New York Mets 3-2 on Monday. Rookie Colt Emerson and Josh Naylor hit solo homers for the American League West-leading Mariners, who won their seventh consecutive game. Jared Young and Marcus Semien went deep for the Mets, whose four-game winning […]

BEIJING, June 2 (Reuters) – China accused the Philippine defence chief of having no gratitude for key Chinese commodities and of using issues about people’s livelihoods for political showmanship, after remarks about China being a threat. Philippine Defence Secretary Gilberto Teodoro told Reuters on Saturday that China remains a “severe threat” with no show of long-term good faith despite Beijing recently offering fertiliser and fuel during war-related shortages. The Chinese […]

TAIPEI, June 2 (Reuters) – The chairman of South Korea’s SK Group said on Tuesday its memory chip unit SK Hynix aims to double wafer capacity over the next five years. Chey Tae-won was speaking at the Computex conference in Taipei, where executives from some of the world’s top technology companies, including Nvidia, are gathering. Chey, who warned in March that a global chip wafer shortage was likely to persist […]

By Nellie Peyton and Esa Alexander CAPE TOWN, June 2 (Reuters) – For SJ Du Venage, a provincial council member for a right-wing party in South Africa’s governing coalition, the decision to leave his homeland under a U.S. refugee programme created by President Donald Trump was shaped by longstanding fears. A former youth leader in the far-right Conservative Party —which opposed the end of apartheid — he said he grew […]

MOSCOW, June 2 (Reuters) – The Russian Defence Ministry said on Tuesday that its massive overnight strike on Ukraine was a response to what it called “terrorist acts” against targets inside Russia and said it had struck a range of Ukrainian military targets. Ukrainian authorities said that Russian drones and missiles had pounded the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and other cities early on Tuesday, killing at least 11 people and wounding […]

NAIROBI, June 2 (Reuters) – Two people were killed in central Kenya on Monday during a protest against moves by the United States to set up an Ebola quarantine facility at a military base there, protest organiser Patrick Wahome and a security source told Reuters.  The circumstances of their deaths were not immediately clear. Kenya’s national police spokesperson could not immediately be reached for comment.  (Writing by Aaron Ross Editing by […]