By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) – An experimental Alzheimer’s disease drug developed by Acumen Pharmaceuticals targeting a novel form of the toxic protein beta amyloid in the brain passed an early safety test and will advance to a larger trial, the company said on Sunday. The drug, ACI193, was well tolerated in the first trial…
(Reuters) – New York Mayor Eric Adams on Monday appointed acting police chief Edward Caban as the city’s first Hispanic police commissioner in its 178-year history, overseeing the largest police department in the U.S. Adams, a former New York City police captain, introduced Caban, 55, during a news conference and said Caban has been instrumental…
MADRID (Reuters) -Spaniards will interrupt their summer holidays to vote for a new parliament on July 23, after an election campaign in which no one party has established a decisive lead and featuring irate exchanges between the main candidates for prime minister. Polls show the conservative opposition People’s Party (PP) of Alberto Nunez Feijoo beating…
By Valerie Volcovici and David Stanway BEIJING (Reuters) -This week’s visit by U.S. climate envoy John Kerry to China after years of diplomatic disruptions could boost cooperation between the world’s two biggest greenhouse gas polluters on the key issue of methane emissions. Kerry arrived in Beijing on Sunday for talks aimed at reviving efforts by…
By Daphne Psaledakis and Anna Voitenko WASHINGTON/KYIV (Reuters) -U.S. aid chief Samantha Power on Monday announced more than $500 million in humanitarian assistance during a visit to Ukraine, where the United Nations says some 17 million people need help following Russia’s invasion. She made the aid announcement, first reported by Reuters, at the State Emergency…
By Sarah El Safty, Khalid Abdelaziz and Nafisa Eltahir CAIRO (Reuters) – A war between military factions in Sudan is putting at risk the production of staple crops this year, farmers in several states say, threatening to drive the African nation deeper into hunger and poverty. Reuters spoke to more than a dozen people including…
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Monday urged Mexican-Americans not to vote for Texas Governor Greg Abbott in response to Texas putting a barrier of orange buoys in the Rio Grande to stop migrants crossing into the United States. Mexico’s incoming foreign minister, Alicia Barcena, said last week that the barrier…
By Brendan O’Boyle MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican authorities on Sunday said they intercepted over 500 migrants in two days in the eastern state of Veracruz as authorities crack down on the transportation of migrants toward the United States in unsafe conditions. Authorities found 206 migrants abandoned in a tractor-trailer on Saturday in the town…
By Orathai Sriring and Panarat Thepgumpanat BANGKOK (Reuters) -An eight-party alliance seeking to form Thailand’s next government reaffirmed its backing for Pita Limjaroenrat to become prime minister, Pita said on Monday, despite his defeat last week in a parliamentary vote. Pita, leader of the progressive Move Forward party – the surprise winner of a May…
By Shivangi Acharya and Sarita Chaganti Singh GANDHINAGAR, India (Reuters) – The failure of the G20 to achieve a breakthrough on debt restructuring for vulnerable countries is a “grave concern”, the head of a United Nations agency said on Monday as the body seeks pauses in debt repayment for poor nations amid rising poverty. The…
