By Marta Serafinko Oct 22 (Reuters) – Anyone who has watched a manta ray glide over a reef knows how unhurried these marine animals can look. Yet researchers working off Costa Rica found their movements are varied, with juveniles staying nearby and close to shore…
QUITO, Oct 22 (Reuters) – Ecuador’s former presidential candidate Luisa Gonzalez has been arrested, the head of the leftist Citizens Revolution party, Gabriela Rivadeneira, said on Thursday. Gonzalez, an ally of former President Rafael Correa, is under investigation over alleged irregularities in political financing and…
By Christy Santhosh Oct 22 (Reuters) – AbbVie said on Thursday its experimental drug significantly reduced inflammatory lumps and abscesses in patients with a chronic skin disease, meeting the main goal of a late-stage study. AbbVie is betting on the drug, lutikizumab, to broaden its…
WASHINGTON, Oct 22 (Reuters) – The US Commerce Department said on Thursday it plans to award $389 million in research and development funding to four companies working on power semiconductor devices and critical materials, with the government receiving minority equity stakes. The department in recent months…
Oct 22 (Reuters) – A Ukrainian national has been arrested in the German state Brandenburg on suspicion of spying for Russia, a statement by federal public prosecutors said on Thursday. Germany has stepped up efforts to counter what it sees as escalating hybrid attacks from…
By Sakshi Dayal NEW DELHI, Oct 22 (Reuters) – The nephew of Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi said he was forced to remove several pieces of art documenting youth protests from his exhibition at a government-run cultural centre in New Delhi this week, as they were…
JERUSALEM, Oct 22 (Reuters) – Nine of the 10 suspects arrested in an investigation into militant settler attacks on a US journalist and European diplomats have been released from custody and placed under house arrest, a law firm that represents settlers said. Masked Israeli settlers…
CAIRO, Oct 22 (Reuters) – Israeli fire killed one person in a car in Gaza City and at least two others in other parts of the enclave on Thursday, health officials there said. A crowd gathered around the burning wreckage in Gaza City’s Tel Al-Hawa…
By Clement Bonnerot and Anait Miridzhanian DAKAR, Oct 22 (Reuters) – The World Health Organization was not told that Nigeria’s Ebola patient had travelled to Congo, the WHO’s representative in Nigeria said on Thursday, after Uganda said she had visited the country. Nigerian health authorities…
WASHINGTON, Oct 22 (Reuters) – The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits dropped to near 57-year lows last week, pointing to low layoffs and labor market stability. Initial claims for state unemployment benefits fell 6,000 to a seasonally adjusted 194,000 for the…
