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MADRID (Reuters) -A Spanish hospital has carried out a lung transplant using a pioneering technique with a robot and a new access route that no longer requires cutting through bone, experts said on Monday. Surgeons at Vall d’Hebron hospital in Barcelona used a four-armed robot dubbed “Da Vinci” to cut a small section of the patient’s skin, fat and muscle to remove the damaged lung and insert a new one […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Nine states, including Michigan and Nebraska, have joined a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit against Alphabet’s Google which alleges the search and advertising company broke antitrust law in running its digital advertising business, the department said on Monday. The states joining the lawsuit were Arizona, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Washington and West Virginia, the department said. The government, which filed the ad tech lawsuit […]

By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. law enforcement officials on Monday arrested two New York residents for allegedly operating a Chinese “secret police station” in Manhattan’s Chinatown, part of a crackdown on Beijing’s alleged targeting of U.S.-based dissidents. Lu Jianwang, 61, and Chen Jinping, 59, face charges of conspiring to act as agents of China’s government without informing U.S. authorities and obstruction of justice. They were released on […]

LEEDS, England (Reuters) – Liverpool’s 6-1 mauling of Leeds United at Elland Road on Monday was their best performance of the season according to manager Juergen Klopp, who has not ruled out a push for a Champions League place in the final weeks of the campaign. The victory was Liverpool’s first in six games in all competitions since they beat Manchester United 7-0 in early March, as they inflicted a […]

By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. law enforcement officials on Monday arrested two New York residents for allegedly operating a Chinese “secret police station” in Manhattan’s Chinatown, part of a crackdown on Beijing’s alleged targeting of U.S.-based dissidents. Lu Jianwang, 61, and Chen Jinping, 59, face charges of conspiring to act as agents of China’s government without informing U.S. authorities and obstruction of justice. They were released on […]

By Raghav Mahobe and Sriparna Roy (Reuters) – A panel of U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisers on Monday unanimously voted in favor of Innoviva Inc’s experimental antibiotic in the treatment of serious bacterial infections, typically associated with hospitalizations, the company said. Innoviva is seeking the U.S. health regulator’s nod for the drug, sulbactam-durlobactam, as a treatment for hospital‐acquired and ventilator‐associated bacterial pneumonia caused by susceptible strains of the bacteria […]

By Jamie McGeever (Reuters) – A look at the day ahead in Asian markets from Jamie McGeever. Investors’ focus on Tuesday rests squarely on China: From an economic and market perspective, eyes are on a raft of data including first-quarter GDP; while the latest twist in souring U.S.-Sino relations will do little to ease geopolitical concerns. U.S. law enforcement officials on Monday arrested two New York residents for allegedly operating […]

By Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) -An independent probe has found that the head of the Organization of American States did not engage in serious misconduct in an intimate relationship with a staffer but that he violated its ethics code by failing to exercise “good judgment,” according to the results of an investigation seen by Reuters. The findings of the probe, launched late last year following a whistleblower’s complaint against OAS […]

(Reuters) -Protesters in Missouri chanted for justice on Monday outside a Kansas City house where a white homeowner shot a Black teenager after the boy rang the doorbell of the wrong residence to pick up his brothers, according to the family’s lawyer. Ralph Yarl, 16, was recovering after being shot in the head and arm by a white man on the doorstep of the suburban home around 10 pm on […]