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(Reuters) -The UK Health Security Agency has identified 34 confirmed hepatitis cases in children since Monday, bringing the total number to 145 amid a series of unexplained cases among children around the world. The agency said 10 children had received…

LONDON (Reuters) -Russia’s defence ministry on Friday released a video showing an injured British man captured in Ukraine being questioned by unidentified Russian forces. The man, who said his name was Andrew Hill and spoke with a British accent, was s…

By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Friday imposed a lifetime prison sentence on a member of an Islamic State militant group nicknamed “The Beatles” that beheaded American hostages, at a hearing where one victim’s mother told the defend…

By Stephanie Kelly NEW YORK (Reuters) -Oil prices rose for a fourth day on Friday as fears over Russian supply disruption outweighed the impact of COVID-19 lockdowns in China, the world’s biggest crude importer. Brent crude futures rose $1.99, or 1.9%,…

By Natalia Zinets KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine acknowledged on Friday it was taking heavy losses in Russia’s assault in the east, but said Russia’s losses were even worse, as U.S. President Joe Biden called on Congress to send as much as $33 billion to help…

MILAN (Reuters) – Intesa Sanpaolo Chief Executive Carlo Messina said he remained committed to hitting targets set under the Italian bank’s business plan through 2025 after being appointed for another term. Shareholders named a new board at Italy’s bigg…

By Valentina Za and Gianluca Semeraro MILAN (Reuters) – Philippe Donnet kept his job as chief executive of Italian insurer Generali on Friday, surviving a challenge from rebel domestic investors who retained board seats and vowed to keep up the pressur…

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Shareholders of Bayer on Friday voted to reprimand the German drug and farming supplies maker for its top management pay scheme, after one leading proxy advisory group said it did not adequately reflect Bayer’s litigation burden. …

(Adds missing word ‘banks’ in lede) By Yoruk Bahceli (Reuters) -British homebuilder Miller Homes raised 815 million pounds in a bond sale on Friday, a lead manager said, but banks had to offer investors a higher yield than originally planned to reopen …

MANCHESTER (Reuters) – The consortium led by LA Dodgers part-owner Todd Boehly is in exclusive negotations to buy Premier League club Chelsea for $3 billion, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday. Boehly’s consortium was one of a num…