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WARSAW (Reuters) -Hundreds of thousands of protesters gathered in Warsaw on Sunday, the 34th anniversary of Poland’s first postwar democratic election, for a march the liberal opposition has billed as a test of its ability to end nearly eight years of nationalist rule later this year. Crowds stretching for at least a mile marched with banners reading “Free, European Poland”, “European Union yes, PiS no”. Some held masks of ruling […]

By Natalie Grover LONDON (Reuters) – AstraZeneca’s lung cancer therapy, Tagrisso, cut the risk of death by more than half in patients with a certain form of lung cancer who were diagnosed early enough to have their tumour surgically removed, trial data showed. Tagrisso is already the crown jewel in the Anglo-Swedish drugmaker’s portfolio, raking in $5.4 billion last year. The drug has regulatory approvals across multiple geographies for certain […]

PARIS (Reuters) – Highlights of the eighth day at the French Open on Sunday (times GMT): 1120 KATO AND SUTJIADI DISQUALIFIED FROM WOMEN’S DOUBLES Japan’s Miyu Kato and Indonesian Aldila Sutjiadi were disqualified from their third-round doubles match against Marie Bouzkova and Sara Sorribes Toromo. The pair were a set down but 3-1 up in the second when Kato struck a ball towards the opposite end of the court between […]

By Maha El Dahan, Alex Lawler and Ahmad Ghaddar VIENNA (Reuters) -OPEC and its allies were meeting on Sunday to clinch a new deal possibly adjusting countries’ output quotas for this year and next and a further cut in production, sources told Reuters, as the group faces flagging oil prices and a looming supply glut. Sources described the talks as difficult, as OPEC’s most influential members and biggest producers from […]

JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday called the killing of three soldiers by a member of the Egyptian security services a terrorist attack and demanded a full joint investigation with Cairo. Egypt says it is working with Israel to investigate the incident which occurred on Saturday. “Israel relayed a clear message to the Egyptian government. We expect that the joint investigation will be exhaustive and thorough,” Netanyahu […]

BERLIN (Reuters) -A motorcycle rider died on Sunday and a triathlete was severely injured in a collision during the Ironman European championship in Hamburg, police said. The rider, who was carrying a camera operator, clashed head-on with the cyclist at a narrow part of the race where both lanes were being used by competitors and accompanying vehicles. The accident happened during live coverage of the race before Germany’s ARD broadcaster […]

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Ukrainian forces continued to shell Russia’s border region of Belgorod overnight into Sunday after two people were killed the previous night and hundreds of children were evacuated away from the border, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said. “Overnight, it was quite restless,” Gladkov said on the Telegram channel, adding that the Shebekino and Volokonovsky districts had suffered “lots” of damage from the latest shelling. Gladkov later wrote that fires had […]

By Fernando Kallas MADRID (Reuters) -Ballon d’Or winner Karim Benzema will leave Real Madrid as a free agent in the close season after 14 trophy-laden years, the LaLiga club said on Sunday, with the striker set to move to Saudi Arabian side Al Ittihad. Saudi Arabia’s state-run Al Ekhbariya television station reported that Al Ittihad had reached an agreement with Benzema on a two-year contract, with club officials in Madrid […]

By Jatindra Dash and YP Rajesh BAHANAGA, India (Reuters) – Indian authorities said they had concluded rescue operations on Sunday after the country’s deadliest rail crash in more than two decades, with signal failure emerging as the likely cause of death for at least 275 people. The death toll from Friday evening’s crash was revised down from 288 after it was found that some bodies had been counted twice, said […]