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By Summer Zhen, Carolina Mandl and Nell Mackenzie HONG KONG/LONDON (Reuters) – Five hedge funds interviewed by Reuters this week each gave details of a trading idea they think could result in a profit from the most significant turmoil to have roiled the banking sector since the 2008 financial crisis. The hedge funds said they can share ideas, but cannot reveal their trading positions for regulatory reasons. 1/ MAN GLG […]

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Denmark’s largest private health insurer Sygeforsikring Danmark, which insures roughly half the country’s population, will stop reimbursing weight loss medication from January next year due to high demand, it said on Friday. The growing popularity of costly new weight-loss drugs has prompted insurers and health authorities to reconsider whether they can subsidise anti-obesity medications, particularly since lifetime use might be required to keep lost weight off. Since […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. federal judge on Friday denied Google’s motion to dismiss a Department of Justice antitrust case focused on advertising technology. Google is a unit of Alphabet Inc. (Reporting by Diane Bartz) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. federal judge on Friday denied Google’s motion to dismiss a Department of Justice antitrust case focused on advertising technology. Google is a unit of Alphabet Inc. (Reporting by Diane Bartz) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

(Reuters) – Gerry Adams, former leader of the political wing of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), was wrongly refused compensation over historic convictions which were later overturned, Belfast’s High Court ruled on Friday. Adams, who led the Sinn Fein party during much of the conflict in Northern Ireland, was among hundreds of people held by Britain without trial in the early 1970s under a policy meant to break the IRA. […]

By Mitch Phillips LONDON (Reuters) – Everton have spent more years in England’s top flight than any other club and have not been outside it for 69 years, but that pedigree will count for nothing and relegation will look almost inevitable if they lose at Leicester City on Monday. Thursday’s 4-1 home defeat to Newcastle United left Everton 19th on 28 points after mustering one win in 10 games. Their […]

By Echo Wang and Mica Rosenberg FRONTON, Texas – Lihua Wu’s journey to the United States started when she scrolled past the words “The Route”, one of several common hashtags on Douyin, the Chinese counterpart of TikTok, advising migrants on the irregular overland trek across Latin America to the United States, also known online as “the Big Beautiful.” By the time the single mother and her five-year-old daughter were apprehended […]

BEIRUT (Reuters) -Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi will visit Damascus next week, a senior regional source close to the Syrian government told Reuters on Friday. The visit will be the first by an Iranian president to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad since war broke out in Syria in 2011. With military help and economic support from both Iran and Russia, Assad was able to turn the tide of the conflict and regain […]

(Reuters) – Dubai’s ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, issued a decree on Friday appointing Maktoum bin Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum as first deputy ruler and Ahmed bin Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum as second deputy ruler, the Dubai Media office said. (Reporting by Yomna Ehab; Editing by Kevin Liffey) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com