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Aug 18 (Reuters) – Lyntris and some of its existing stockholders raised $297.5 million in a downsized U.S. IPO after pricing below the marketed range and offering fewer shares, the defense contractor said on Tuesday, as the summer listing market draws to a close. The Falls Church, Virginia-based company priced its initial public offering of 17 million shares at $17.50 per share, compared with the marketed range of $19 to […]

NAIROBI, Aug 19 (Reuters) – The number of confirmed Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo has exceeded 5,000, government data showed late on Tuesday. The public health institute said in its latest situation report that there were now a cumulative 5,021 cases, including 2,378 total deaths. (Writing by Nairobi Newsroom; Editing by Jacqueline Wong) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Triple-murderer Erin Patterson appealed her convictions Wednesday for poisoning four of her estranged husband’s relatives with death cap mushrooms. Three judges of the Victoria state Court of Appeal are hearing her appeal over two days against her convictions on three counts of murder and one of attempted murder relating to a lunch of beef Wellington pastries she prepared at her rural home in Leongatha in July […]

BANGKOK (AP) — Shares slipped Wednesday in Asia after Wall Street pulled further from its all-time high as artificial-intelligence stocks resumed their decline. South Korea’s Kospi led the regional retreat, dropping 5.2% to 6,515.97. The two biggest companies benefiting from the AI boom tracked losses for their U.S. rivals. Samsung Electronics shed 6.9%, while memory chipmaker SK Hynix tumbled 7.9%. In Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 sank 2.6% to 65,703.78. The […]

By Emma Farge GENEVA, Aug 19 (Reuters) – A record number of humanitarian workers were attacked last year, driven partly by increased use of armed drones, the United Nations said on Wednesday, calling the trend “appalling”. Some 907 aid workers were killed, injured or kidnapped in 2025 versus 833 the year before, according to the Aid Worker Security Database, a platform funded by Canada and Australia that compiles major security […]

Aug 19 (Reuters) – At least nine people were killed, including a child, in a fire at a hotel in India’s eastern city of Kolkata on Wednesday, local police said.  • The fire broke out at around 2:50 a.m. local time on the second floor of the hotel building and was brought under control within an hour, a senior police officer told Reuters. • Around 30 people were evacuated safely […]

Aug 19 (Reuters) – Bank of America has appointed Yuta Komori as chair of Asia Pacific Global Industrials Investment Banking (GIG), while naming Meng Gao and Masashi Toda as co-heads of the group, according to an internal memo reviewed by Reuters on Wednesday. In this new role, Komori will provide guidance to the business and support the development of the firm’s industrials franchise across the region, while continuing to serve […]

SINGAPORE, Aug 19 (Reuters) – Shipping through the Strait of Hormuz slowed, data showed on Wednesday, as most shipowners avoided the key waterway because of a lack of clear signalling on its reopening from a blockade during the Iran war. Six commodity vessels crossed the strait on Tuesday, Kpler data showed by 0258 GMT, down from nine a day earlier and below the 10-day daily average of 11. Inbound traffic […]

By Nate Raymond Aug 18 (Reuters) – A former adviser to infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci pleaded guilty on Tuesday to conspiring to evade public records laws and conceal government documents related to grant research funding and the COVID-19 pandemic. David ‌Morens, who had worked under Fauci as a senior official at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases during the pandemic, entered his plea to a conspiracy charge […]