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May 31 (Reuters) – As of May 30, 263 confirmed Ebola cases have been reported in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, the director-general of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Jean Kaseya said.  More than 1,100 suspected cases are being investigated and 43 people are confirmed to have died as a result of the rare Bundibugyo ​strain of Ebola, Kaseya said in an FT op-ed published […]

By Shrivathsa Sridhar PARIS, May 31 (Reuters) – Seventh seed Elina Svitolina began slowly but finished strongly to beat Switzerland’s Belinda Bencic 4-6 6-4 6-0 and reach the quarter-finals of the French Open on Sunday, booking an all-Ukrainian showdown with Marta Kostyuk. • Svitolina, who is looking for her maiden Grand Slam title at the age of 31, arrived at Roland Garros in superb form after winning the Rome title […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A novel pill helped people with advanced pancreatic cancer live longer, researchers reported Sunday, raising hopes of long-needed better treatments for one of the deadliest types of cancer. “While not curing the cancer, it is a very large step forward,” said Dr. Zev Wainberg, of the University of California, Los Angeles, who helped lead the study. The drug is called daraxonrasib and it blocks a mutated protein […]

By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK, May 29 (Reuters) – Investors will turn to an important labor market update next week as they weigh whether simmering inflation and the potential for interest rate hikes could derail the rally in U.S. stocks. Broadcom’s results also pose a test in the coming week for the red-hot AI trade. This week, U.S. equity indexes continued their charge higher, with the benchmark S&P 500 posting […]

By Leila Miller BUENOS AIRES, May 31 (Reuters) – Nicaraguan indigenous leader Brooklyn Rivera has died after three years in jail, according to 100% Noticias, a news site that reports on news in Nicaragua. (Reporting by Leila Miller) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

BUNIA, Congo (AP) — Five patients have recovered from a rare type of Ebola, the head of the World Health Organization said Sunday during a visit to eastern Congo’s Bunia, a city at the heart of an outbreak. “Four people will be discharged today and there was one that was discharged the day before yesterday,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during the opening of a new Ebola treatment center […]

LONDON (AP) — Scotland’s former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon defiantly rejected any blame Sunday for her estranged husband’s embezzlement of Scottish National Party funds, saying she wouldn’t apologize for his crimes. Sturgeon told the BBC that she felt betrayed by the actions of her husband, Peter Murrell, who last week pleaded guilty to stealing more than 400,000 pounds ($540,000) from the SNP to fund a lavish lifestyle when he was […]

By Mariam Sunny and Kamal Choudhury May 31 (Reuters) – An experimental drug developed by China-based Akeso helped patients with advanced squamous non-small cell lung cancer live 15% longer than BeOne Medicines’ immunotherapy Tevimbra, and cut the risk of death by more than one-third in a study presented at a medical meeting on Sunday. Patients who received ivonescimab and chemotherapy lived an average of 27.9 months, compared with 23.7 months […]

By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO, May 31 (Reuters) – Revolution Medicine’s experimental pancreatic cancer pill doubled survival compared with chemotherapy and improved symptoms enough that some patients could resume activities they had previously abandoned, setting a new benchmark for this deadly cancer, researchers reported on Sunday. Full results of the 500-person trial, which tested the once-daily pill against standard chemotherapy in patients who had failed one round of chemotherapy, showed that […]