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By Abinaya V and Jatindra Dash BHUBANESWAR, India (Reuters) -At least 80 people were killed and 850 injured after two passenger trains collided in the eastern Indian state of Odisha on Friday, state Chief Secretary Pradeep Jena said. The Coromandel Express, which runs from Kolkata to Chennai, collided with another passenger train, the Howrah Superfast Express, railway officials said on Friday evening. Images from the scene showed rescuers climbing up […]

FLORENCE, Italy (Reuters) -Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon set a women’s 1,500 metres world record on Friday by clocking 3:49.11, while world champion Fred Kerley triumphed in the men’s 100 metres at the third Diamond League meeting of the season. Kipyegon shaved almost an entire second off the previous mark of 3:50.07 set by Ethiopia’s Genzebe Dibaba in 2015. The world record completes the 29-year-old’s collection of feats, adding to her two […]

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A 2018 privacy lawsuit brought by Washington, D.C., against Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc was dismissed on Thursday by a Superior Court judge, who ruled the firm did not mislead consumers over the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The lawsuit alleged violation of the district’s consumer protection law. The social media firm drew global scrutiny in 2018 after disclosing that a third-party personality quiz distributed on […]

By Zeba Siddiqui SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Hackers have stolen data from the systems of a number of users of the popular file transfer tool MOVEit Transfer, U.S. security researchers said on Thursday, one day after the maker of the software disclosed that a security flaw had been discovered. Software maker Progress Software Corp, after disclosing the vulnerability on Wednesday, said it could lead to potential unauthorized access into users’ […]

By Clark Mindock and Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – 3M Co has struck a tentative settlement of at least $10 billion with a host of U.S. cities and towns to resolve water pollution claims tied to “forever chemicals,” Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. Shares of 3M were up 8.4% at $102.16 on Friday afternoon. Reuters could not immediately confirm the report. A 3M spokesperson said […]

By Clark Mindock (Reuters) – Chemours Co, DuPont de Nemours Inc and Corteva Inc on Friday said they had reached an agreement in principle to settle claims that they contaminated U.S. public water systems with toxic “forever chemicals” for $1.19 billion. The three chemical companies and several others are facing thousands of lawsuits in the U.S. over their alleged role in polluting the environment with perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl, substances (PFAS) […]

PARIS (Reuters) – Highlights of the sixth day at the French Open on Friday (times GMT): 1932 TSITSIPAS BREEZES PAST SCHWARTZMAN Greek fifth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas beat Argentina’s Diego Schwartzman 6-2 6-2 6-3 in a match lasting just over two hours to book a place in the fourth round. READ MORE: What would Ukraine soldiers think if I shook hands with Russians says Svitolina Djokovic survives Davidovich Fokina scare to […]

(Reuters) – Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon set a women’s 1,500 metres world record on Friday by clocking 3:49.11 at the third Diamond League meeting of the season in Florence. (Reporting by Aadi Nair in Nashik, India) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

(Reuters) – About 400 patients who signed up to take cancer diagnostic test maker Grail’s pioneering oncology detection test received erroneous letters suggesting they may have developed cancer, the company said on Friday. Grail’s flagship cancer detection blood test Galleri is designed to detect more than 50 types of cancer before symptoms appear. The company, owned by Illumina Inc, said the letters were mistakenly sent by its telemedicine provider PWNHealth […]