LARGO, Maryland/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States has negotiated down the prices of 10 top-selling prescription drugs used by Medicare by as much as 79%, hoping to save $6 billion in the first year as part of a plan hailed yesterday by President Joe Biden with the aim to ease anger about high prices ahead of November elections.
BEDMINSTER, New Jersey, (Reuters) – Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump sought to tie his Democratic rival Kamala Harris to the Biden administration’s economic record yesterday during a meandering, 80-minute press conference at his New Jersey golf club, his latest effort to blunt her momentum.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Two doctors and three others including a personal assistant to Matthew Perry have been charged with supplying the “Friends” star with ketamine, the powerful sedative that caused his overdose death nearly a year ago, authorities said yesterday.
KYIV, (Reuters) – Ukraine has chalked up a string of victories more than a week since blindsiding Russia with a lightning cross-border assault, but the risks are piling up as its troops make plans to hold territory and Russia recovers its footing.
KOLKATA, India, (Reuters) – Holding candles, hundreds of thousands of women marched through the night in cities across India, to protest the brutal rape and murder of a young female doctor in a hospital that has fueled anger over a lack of safety for women despite tough new laws.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – The presidents of Brazil and Colombia discussed options for negotiating an end to the Venezuelan crisis in a phone call yesterday, Brazilian leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said.
CAIRO, (Reuters) – Hamas said yesterday it would not take part in a new round of Gaza ceasefire talks slated for today in Qatar, but an official briefed on the talks said mediators expected to consult with the Palestinian group afterwards.
(Reuters) – At the centre of Stonehenge lies the Altar Stone, a hefty slab of sandstone whose origin and purpose have been among the famed megalithic monument’s enduring mysteries.
(Reuters) – The World Health Organization yesterday declared mpox a global public health emergency for the second time in two years, following an outbreak of the viral infection in Democratic Republic of Congo that has spread to neighbouring countries.
TOKYO, (Reuters) – Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said today he would step down next month, succumbing to public disaffection over political scandals and rising living costs that marred his three-year term, and setting off a scramble to replace him.
TOKYO, (Reuters) – Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said today he would step down next month, succumbing to public disaffection over political scandals and rising living costs that marred his three-year term, and setting off a scramble to replace him.
BANGKOK, (Reuters) – Thailand’s Constitutional Court today dismissed Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin for “grossly” violating ethics by appointing a minister who had served jail time, raising the spectre of political upheaval and a shakeup in the governing alliance.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza, (Reuters) – Mohammed Abu Al-Qumsan had just picked up birth certificates for his newly-born twins when he found out they had been killed, along with his wife and her mother, by an Israeli strike on the Gaza apartment where they were sheltering.
KYIV, (Reuters) – Ukraine said yesterday its biggest cross-border assault of the war to date had taken control of 74 settlements in Russia’s region of Kursk and was still advancing, making gains of one to three km in the last 24 hours.
JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Israeli Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir yesterday visited the Al-Aqsa mosque compound known to Jews as Temple Mount, and said Jews should be allowed to pray there, freshly challenging rules covering one of the most sensitive sites in the Middle East.
DETROIT, (Reuters) – The United Auto Workers Union said yesterday it has filed complaints with the National Labor Relations Board against Donald Trump and Tesla TSLA.O
(Reuters) – A United Nations panel of electoral experts said that Venezuela’s electoral authority did not follow regulatory provisions when it published July election results and the lack of detailed results is without precedent in contemporary elections.
SINGAPORE, (Reuters) – A study released yesterday using data from NASA’s Mars InSight lander shows evidence of liquid water far below the surface of the fourth planet, advancing the search for life there and showing what might have happened to Mars’ ancient oceans.
(Reuters) – Ukraine said yesterday its biggest cross-border assault of the war had captured 1,000 square kilometres (386 square miles) of Russia’s Kursk region and that Russian President Vladimir Putin would have to be forced into making peace.
(Reuters) – One Israeli male hostage was killed by his guard and two women captives were seriously wounded in two separate incidents in Gaza, the spokesperson for Hamas’ armed al-Qassam Brigades, Abu Ubaida, said yesterday.