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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Trade Commission opened a new front in its fight against the Intercontinental Exchange deal to buy Black Knight by asking a federal court for a preliminary injunction to halt the deal while its internal administrative process moves forward. The agency said on March 9 it would seek to stop the New York Stock Exchange parent Intercontinental Exchange from acquiring mortgage data vendor Black Knight […]

PARIS (Reuters) -French rescue workers have found a fifth body in the rubble of buildings in the southern city of Marseille that collapsed following an explosion, the city’s mayor said on Monday. Authorities had said earlier that they had identified eight people missing in the wake of Sunday’s explosion, which destroyed two residential buildings and caused a third to partially collapse. The cause of the blast is still unknown. The […]

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Two Catholic Relief Services (CRS) workers were shot and killed on Sunday in Ethiopia’s Amhara region, the charity said, amid violent anti-government protests triggered by a federal government decision to disband regional special forces units. CRS director of communications Kim Pozniak said on Monday that the incident occurred in the town of Kobo, where residents reported heavy artillery fire on Sunday, but did not say whether the […]

ANKARA (Reuters) – The foreign ministers of Turkey, Russia, Iran and Syria may hold consultations in early May as part of Russia’s attempt to help broker a rapprochement between the Turkish and Syrian governments, Turkey’ foreign minister said on Monday. NATO alliance member Turkey has been a major backer of the political and armed opposition to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during a 12-year civil war, and has sent its own […]

(Reuters) – Johnson & Johnson’s renewed effort to resolve talc lawsuits through an $8.9 billion bankruptcy settlement must be dismissed as a “fraudulent scheme” that defies a court order rejecting the company’s previous attempt to settle the litigation with a controversial legal maneuver, according to a Monday court filing from lawyers representing cancer victims. (Reporting by Dietrich Knauth) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – The Dalai Lama, the Tibetans’ 87-year-old spiritual leader, apologised on Monday after footage showed him asking a young boy to “suck my tongue” at a public event. “A video clip has been circulating that shows a recent meeting when a young boy asked his Holiness the Dalai Lama if he could give him a hug,” said a statement on the exiled leader’s Twitter account, which has […]

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Thousands of Israelis, including government ministers, marched towards the evacuated outpost of Evyatar in the occupied West Bank on Monday to support settlement expansion, as tensions mounted between Israelis and Palestinians. Waving Israeli flags and chanting religious slogans and songs, Israelis from across the country marched towards the outpost, as a Palestinian counter-protest was held nearby. The Palestinian red Crescent said 191 Palestinians were injured in the […]

By Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) – Russian forces pressed attacks on frontline cities in eastern Ukraine on Monday, while Ukrainian officials played down a report that Kyiv is amending some plans for a counter-offensive due to a leak of classified U.S. documents. The Russians were pounding Ukrainian positions around besieged Bakhmut in the eastern Donetsk region and other cities and towns with air strikes and artillery barrages, Kyiv said. “The […]

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Thousands of Israelis, including government ministers, marched towards the evacuated outpost of Evyatar in the occupied West Bank on Monday to support settlement expansion, as tensions mounted between Israelis and Palestinians. Waving Israeli flags and chanting religious slogans and songs, Israelis from across the country marched towards the outpost, as a Palestinian counter-protest was held nearby. The Palestinian red Crescent said 191 Palestinians were injured in the […]