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(Reuters) -Merck & Co Inc and Eisai Co Ltd said on Friday they were discontinuing a late-stage study of Keytruda plus Lenvima for the treatment of adults with unresectable or metastatic melanoma, as the trial did not show improvement in overall survival. The decision to discontinue the trial was based on the recommendation of an independent data monitoring committee after an interim analysis, the companies said. Improvement in overall survival […]

(Reuters) – Hernan Crespo’s first season as coach of Al-Duhail in Qatar could not have gone much better, with the former Argentina striker still on course for a domestic quadruple after clinching a second trophy in the space of 10 days on Thursday. Qatar is proving fertile territory for Argentines, after their World Cup victory in December, and Crespo’s Al-Duhail are chasing a clean sweep of domestic silverware. His side […]

By Kuba Stezycki and Anna Wlodarczak-Semczuk WARSAW (Reuters) – A fencing World Cup event in Poland has been cancelled by the local federation after the sport’s international governing body rejected a proposal to make Russian and Belarusian athletes sign a statement opposing the invasion of Ukraine. The Polish fencing federation (PZS) cancelled the women’s foil World Cup scheduled for April 21-23 in Poznan after the international fencing federation (FIE) reversed […]

MUMBAI (Reuters) – India’s federal government asked states to identify emergency hotspots and ramp up-testing for COVID-19, after the country recorded its highest daily case count since September, a Reuters tally showed on Friday. There were 6,050 new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, the federal health ministry said on Friday, continuing a sharp upward trend since a lull last year. At a meeting to review the degree […]

(Reuters) – Merck & Co Inc and Eisai Co Ltd said on Friday they were discontinuing a late-stage study of Keytruda plus Lenvima for treatment of adults with unresectable or metastatic melanoma, as the trial did not show improvement in overall survival. The decision to discontinue was based on the recommendation of an independent data monitoring committee after an interim analysis, the companies said. They also said another late-stage trial […]

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — LSU’s national champion women’s basketball team will accept an invitation from President Joe Biden to visit the White House. University spokesman Michael Bonnette confirmed LSU’s intentions on the matter on Thursday, a day after Tigers star forward Angel Reese suggested during a podcast interview that her team should celebrate their title with former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama rather than President Joe Biden […]

(Reuters) – Paramount Global is exploring selling a majority stake in its online learning service for children, Noggin, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the situation. (Reporting by Akanksha Khushi in Bengaluru; Editing by Alison Williams) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

(Reuters) – April 7 (Reuters) – Russian forces have very likely seized the centre of the fiercely contested city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine and are threatening a key supply route for Ukrainian forces to the west, British intelligence said. FIGHTING * Asked to comment on the report, a Ukrainian military command spokesman told Reuters the situation was difficult in Bakhmut and that Russian forces were concentrating all efforts to […]

By Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) -Russian forces have very likely seized the centre of the fiercely contested city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine and are threatening a key supply route for Ukrainian forces to the west, British intelligence said on Friday. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday his troops would pull back from the small city, which has been the main focus of Russia’s assault on Ukraine for months, […]