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PARIS, May 30 (Reuters) – Italian Flavio Cobolli dismantled American Learner Tien 6-2 6-2 6-3 on Saturday to advance to the French Open fourth round in commanding fashion. • The 10th-seed, who now reached a Grand Slam fourth round for only the second time, raced to a 3-0 lead, with Tien looking sluggish after needing five sets in the previous round to beat Facundo Diaz Acosta. • The American, ranked […]

BUNIA, Congo (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization Saturday arrived in eastern Congo’s Bunia, a city at the heart of an outbreak of a rare type of Ebola, where the virus still spreads faster than the response, despite better-organized health facilities and new aid arrivals. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is expected to visit a treatment center and meet local authorities, health workers and affected families in […]

ANHOLT, Denmark (AP) — The carcass of a humpback whale, whose life and death captivated Germans for months as the mammal became repeatedly stranded in the Baltic Sea, was dragged Saturday onto a Danish beach after two weeks of the body languishing in shallow waters. The whale had gained the nicknames “Timmy” and “Hope” as German media outlets sent push alerts and updated live blogs with the status of its […]

By Christy Santhosh May 30 (Reuters) – Incyte’s Monjuvi as part of a multi-drug regimen that includes a chemotherapy standard of care for an aggressive form of non-Hodgkin lymphoma reduced the risk of disease progression, relapse or death by 25% compared to the standard alone, but with a higher rate of study dropouts due to side effects. The company, which first announced the data in January, said it would have […]

May 30 (Reuters) – The World Health Organisation chief on Saturday called on communities in the centre of the Congo’s latest Ebola outbreak to play a central role in fighting the disease. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus ⁠arrived in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday to coordinate the response to the Ebola outbreak, for which 1,028 suspected cases had been recorded by Friday, according to Congolese authorities. “The communities […]

By Balazs Koranyi DUBROVNIK, Croatia, May 30 (Reuters) – Central bank independence is again coming under pressure as policymakers push through unpopular measures to curb surging prices, prompting political interference that could erode trust and deepen the crisis, current and former officials said. Inflation has picked up worldwide since the war in Iran drove up oil prices, forcing central banks to raise interest rates or delay previously signalled cuts to […]

By Lucy Papachristou TBILISI, May 29 (Reuters) – Tangled cobwebs dangle from the ceiling in dim light and a pleasant, musky sweetness pervades the air in this repository of a precious wine collection, once owned by Georgia’s most infamous son, Josef Stalin. The Georgian government, which owns the roughly 40,000 French and Georgian rarities, unsealed the wine vault for the first time this week in the capital Tbilisi. It plans […]

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A truck carrying Afghan refugees returning from neighboring Pakistan overturned on a highway in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing at least 22 people and injuring about 36 others, most of them women and children, officials said. The accident occurred in Laghman province on the main highway linking Kabul, the Afghan capital, with Nangarhar province, said Abdul Malik Niazai, the spokesperson for the provincial governor. He said […]

By Akash Sriram NEW YORK, May 30 (Reuters) – Blue Origin faces a months-long setback after the explosion of a rocket damaged its launch pad, company and industry sources said, scrambling schedules for Amazon satellite launches and bolstering SpaceX’s dominance in the commercial launch market. The mishap, which occurred during a test fire of the engines for the New Glenn rocket’s launch next week, comes at a critical time for […]