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(Reuters) – Indian broadcaster NDTV and the country’s ANI news agency both said on Saturday their main Twitter accounts had been locked, without specifying a reason for the suspensions. Searches on Twitter for NDTV’s English service account @NDTV and the @ANI handle both produced the message “This account doesn’t exist. Try searching for another.” Their other accounts appeared to be functional. ANI editor Smita Prakash tweeted a screenshot of the […]

By Anirban Sen and Echo Wang NEW YORK (Reuters) – SoftBank Group Corp’s chip maker Arm Ltd has filed with regulators confidentially for a U.S. stock market listing, people familiar with the matter said on Saturday, setting the stage for this year’s largest initial public offering. While SoftBank had said in March it planned to list Arm in the U.S. stock market, the company’s IPO registration shows that it is […]

By Anirban Sen and Echo Wang NEW YORK (Reuters) – SoftBank Group Corp’s chip maker Arm Ltd has filed with regulators confidentially for a U.S. stock market listing, people familiar with the matter said on Saturday, setting the stage for this year’s largest initial public offering. While SoftBank had said in March it planned to list Arm in the U.S. stock market, the company’s IPO registration shows that it is […]

By Mahamat Ramadane KOUFROUNE CAMP, Chad (Reuters) – As armed militias attacked and pillaged her village near the town of El Geneina in the western Darfur region of Sudan, pregnant 23-year-old Zamzam Adam was stranded, in labour, and alone, as neighbours fled across the border into Chad. The conflict between Sudan’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has not spared her village Ayatine, in western Darfur region where […]

(Corrects typo in headline to read “prostate”, not “prostrate”) (Reuters) -A panel of U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisers on Friday voted for the restricted use of British drugmaker AztraZeneca Plc’s experimental treatment, jointly developed with Merck & Co, for a type of prostate cancer. The FDA panel voted 11-1 with one abstention, in favor of Lynparza, in combination with other medications – abiraterone and prednisone or prednisolone – as […]

By Philip Pullella BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Pope Francis on Saturday met Ukrainians who fled the war on Hungary’s eastern border, telling the refugees that a different future is possible. Francis met with about 600 refugees, poor and homeless people in a visit to St. Elizabeth’s church in Budapest on the second day of his visit, which began on Friday when he pointedly warned of the dangers in Europe. Francis was […]

GENEVA (Reuters) – Chad conducted its first evacuation flights from Sudan carrying more than 200 people, including dozens of children, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Friday. Countries around the globe have rushed to extract foreign diplomats and citizens from the country after a conflict erupted between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, killing hundreds of people and turning residential areas into war zones. The […]

KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine had protested to key allies the European Union and Poland over restrictions on its grain supplies on Friday, before the European Commisssion announced later in the day that a deal had been reached in principle to resolve the matter. Ukraine’s foreign ministry said on Saturday it had sent notes to the Polish Embassy and EU representative office in Kyiv on Friday expressing dissapointment with the situation and […]

(Reuters) – A fire at a fuel storage facility in the Crimean port city of Sevastopol, caused by an apparent drone strike, has been extinguished, the Moscow-installed governor there said on Saturday. FIGHTING * Russia hurled missiles at cities across Ukraine early on Friday as people slept, killing at least 25 civilians in the first large-scale air strikes in nearly two months, as Kyiv said it was nearly ready to […]