SEOUL (Reuters) – LVMH’s top fashion brand Louis Vuitton held its first-ever pre-fall fashion show on Saturday on a bridge in Seoul, the capital of a leading luxury market. In one of the highest profile events since chairman and CEO Pietro Beccari started at Louis Vuitton earlier this year, the runway on the lower level …
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(Corrects typo in headline to read “prostate”, not “prostrate”) (Reuters) -A panel of U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisers on Friday voted for the restricted use of British drugmaker AztraZeneca Plc’s experimental treatment, jointly developed with Merck & Co, for a type of prostate cancer. The FDA panel voted 11-1 with one abstention, in favor …
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By Greg Roumeliotis NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is preparing to place First Republic Bank under receivership imminently, a person familiar with the matter said on Friday, sending shares of the lender down nearly 50% in extended trading. Â Â Â The U.S. banking regulator decided the troubled regional lender’s position …
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By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Barely five weeks after the last bout of heavy rain and snow in California’s historically wet winter, firefighters on Friday battled the state’s first large wildfire of the year in rugged foothills east of Los Angeles. The Nob fire has scorched some 200 acres of brush and grass …
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GOMA (Reuters) -The Kenyan commander of a regional force set up to tackle militia violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo said he had resigned due to obstruction and threats to his safety, adding to doubts over whether the mission can be effective. In the letter dated Thursday, Major General Jeff Nyagah said he was …
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(This April 28 story has been refiled to remove repeated word in paragraph 1) By Martin Coulter and Supantha Mukherjee LONDON/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – As recently as February, generative AI did not feature prominently in EU lawmakers’ plans for regulating artificial intelligence technologies such as ChatGPT. The bloc’s 108-page proposal for the AI Act, published two …
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By Khalid Abdelaziz KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Strikes by air, tanks and artillery rocked Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, and the adjacent city of Bahri on Friday, witnesses said, mocking a 72-hour truce extension announced by the army and a rival paramilitary force. Hundreds have been killed and tens of thousands have fled for their lives in a …
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By Kevin Buckland TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is expected to visit South Korea in coming weeks and meet with President Yoon Suk Yeol, officials said, reciprocating a Tokyo visit by the South Korean leader last month. A Japanese government official and another official from a Group of Seven government said the meeting …
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By Bernadette Christina and Fransiska Nangoy JAKARTA (Reuters) -Indonesia will allow miners Freeport Indonesia and Amman Mineral Nusa Tenggara to continue exporting copper concentrate until next year, despite a ban starting this June, to allow for their smelters to be completed, the mining minister said on Friday. The government is due to ban exports of …
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By Lucinda Elliott and Daniela Desantis ASUNCION (Reuters) – In the heart of Paraguay’s capital Asuncion, a tropical city close to the Argentine border, voters are gearing up for election day on Sunday, with the economy, corruption and Taiwan on their minds. The farming nation of just under 7 million people will go to the …
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