LONDON, Sept 25 (Reuters) – The founder of the British anti-migrant Patriot Platform group, which has mobilised hundreds of protesters in recent weeks, on Friday denied criminal damage by slashing a small boat which had taken dozens of migrants from France. Daniel Thomas, widely known…
By Emanuele Berro and Friederike Heine BERLIN, Sept 25 (Reuters) – An East German town has approved a motion by the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and ruling centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) to reject future installation of brass plaques commemorating victims of Nazi persecution.…
Sept 25 (Reuters) – ADARx Pharmaceuticals said on Thursday it had raised $446.3 million in an upsized US initial public offering, reflecting growing investor appetite for biotech listings. The San Diego-based drug developer sold 26.3 million shares at $17 apiece, the top end of its…
By Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI, Sept 25 (Reuters) – India’s government has ordered states to crack down on the sale of nicotine pouches, which it considers a major health risk, saying globally popular brands are being widely sold illegally in the country, a letter from…
PARIS, Sept 25 (Reuters) – Pope Leo firmly reiterated the Catholic Church’s opposition to assisted dying initiatives on Friday during his visit to France, two months the country created a legal right to die for those with incurable illnesses after years of intense debate. The…
By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD, Sept 24 (Reuters) – Pakistan’s air force struck 10 locations in Afghanistan on Thursday, its second round of strikes in four days after three months of relative quiet along the two countries’ 2,600-km (1,600-mile) border. Islamabad said it struck militant hideouts…
By Anna Szymanski Sept 25 (Reuters) – Geopolitics initially took center stage this week, as the United Nations General Assembly kicked off and Chinese President Xi Jinping headed to Washington, but these meetings have ended up offering little more than talk. It was in the…
By Elizabeth Howcroft PARIS, Sept 25 (Reuters) – Crypto exchange Bitget has stopped allowing customer withdrawals following the theft of crypto worth approximately $351.6 million in a hack, it said, adding all user funds were safe. Bitget had noticed “unauthorised transfers” from some of its…
By Stine Jacobsen, Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen and Tom Little COPENHAGEN, Sept 25 (Reuters) – At a windswept gravel airstrip in eastern Greenland, a small Danish military detachment has quietly kept watch for decades. Now, under a new US defence agreement signed this week, the outpost at…
By Luc Cohen Sept 25 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump is pressing forward with an unprecedented push for his administration to obtain sensitive voter data ahead of the US midterm elections, despite repeated losses in court, in a hunt for noncitizens illegally registered to vote, though…
