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(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 […]

By Michael Erman and Ahmed Aboulenein (Reuters) -Over 300 biotech and pharmaceutical industry executives, including Pfizer Inc CEO Albert Bourla, signed an open letter on Monday calling for reversal of a federal judge’s decision to suspend sales of the abortion pill mifepristone. A U.S. judge on Friday suspended the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s two-decade-old approval of the drug, effectively banning sales while a case brought by anti-abortion groups before […]

By Helen Coster and Jack Queen (Reuters) – One of the most closely watched U.S. defamation cases in decades is set to begin on Thursday as a Delaware court picks a jury to decide whether Fox News should pay Dominion Voting Systems $1.6 billion for spreading election-rigging falsehoods. A critical task for jurors over the five-week trial will be deciding who was responsible for the cable network’s decision to broadcast […]

By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -Provincial snap elections are not in Pakistan’s national interest given its economic turmoil and security situation, the country’s finance minister said on Monday, in defiance of an order by the country’s supreme court. His comments raise the risk of constitutional deadlock to compound the country’s political and economic upheaval In a victory for former prime minister Imran Khan, the court last week mandated the elections, […]

By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -Provincial snap elections are not in Pakistan’s national interest given its economic turmoil and security situation, the country’s finance minister said on Monday, in defiance of an order by the country’s supreme court. His comments raise the risk of constitutional deadlock to compound the country’s political and economic upheaval In a victory for former prime minister Imran Khan, the court last week mandated the elections, […]