Oct 5 (Reuters) – Medical device maker GE HealthCare said on Monday it would buy privately held Sofie Biosciences for $945 million in cash, in a move that strengthens its ability to manufacture and distribute PET imaging drugs. The acquisition will give GE HealthCare US…
AMSTERDAM, Oct 5 (Reuters) – German robotics maker RobCo on Monday said it had passed a $1 billion valuation and that its CEO Roman Holzl had relocated to the United States to focus on the company’s fastest-growing market. The Munich-based firm said the valuation was…
By Mohammed Ghobari and Timour Azhari Oct 5 (Reuters) – Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces have secured effective control of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, Yemen’s Information Minister Moammar al-Eryani told Reuters on Monday, though fighting continues with Houthi forces in the area. The government forces advanced…
Oct 5 (Reuters) – Gate Bioscience said on Monday it expanded a research and licensing agreement with Eli Lilly to develop treatments targeting disease-causing proteins, in a deal potentially worth more than $870 million. The companies’ original agreement, announced in July 2025, was worth up…
By Andrew Osborn MOSCOW, Oct 5 (Reuters) – A laboratory worker at a plague research institute in Siberia has fallen ill and died in undisclosed circumstances, prompting authorities to quarantine dozens of people, and the head of Russia’s health watchdog to fly to the Irkutsk…
Oct 5 (Reuters) – Swiss drugmaker Roche will pay up to $1.27 billion to license Alector’s experimental treatment for Parkinson’s disease, the US biotech said on Monday, sending its shares surging 72% in premarket trading. Genentech, a unit of Roche, will pay Alector $100 million…
PARIS, Oct 5 (Reuters) – Two men have died after a boat carrying about 90 migrants got into difficulty off the coast of Boulogne-sur-Mer in northern France and had to be assisted by coastguards, the local French authority said on Monday. The two men were…
ROME, Oct 5 (Reuters) – Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has applied to the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) to trademark her voice in a new move to protect herself against AI-generated deepfakes, records showed on Monday. Her application, dated October 5 on the…
DUBAI, Oct 5 (Reuters) – Iran executed two men arrested over January protests in Isfahan in connection with the deaths of four police officers, the judiciary’s Mizan news agency reported on Monday. Mizan said Alireza Sepahi and Alireza Raeisi were sentenced to death on charges…
By Sabine Siebold BERLIN, Oct 5 (Reuters) – Germany is at risk of entering a violent conflict as Moscow steps up an increasingly aggressive “shadow war” against European democracies, its head of foreign intelligence warned on Monday. “The confrontation we are facing with Russia has…
