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French pharmaceutical company Servier announced on Friday that it will acquire Day One Biopharmaceuticals for approximately $2.5 billion, strengthening its portfolio in brain tumor therapies. Deal details Under the agreement, Servier will pay $21.50 per share in cash, representing a 68% premium over Day One’s previous closing stock......
A Serbian court has sentenced three men to house arrest after they pleaded guilty to a series of hate crimes and espionage-related offenses, including placing pig heads near mosques in Paris to incite anti-Muslim sentiment. The trio also admitted to acts of defacing Jewish sites in France and Germany. Plea and sentencing The three men, part......
Swiss Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan has been deemed medically able to appear before the Paris criminal court where he is being tried on rape charges, according to a medical assessment ordered by French judicial authorities. The 63-year-old academic’s trial opened earlier this week in Paris, but the defendant did not attend the hearing......
France said dozens of its vessels are trapped in the Persian Gulf as the escalating conflict involving Iran, the United States, and Israel effectively shuts down the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most critical maritime chokepoints. French Transport Minister Philippe Tabarot said Friday that 52 French ships are currently stranded......
A new awareness campaign in France aims to normalise discussion of colon cancer and encourage more people to take part in screening. Led by La Ligue contre le cancer, the initiative is part of the “Mars bleu” month dedicated to colorectal cancer prevention and uses a deliberately provocative slogan to capture attention. The association......
Iranian director Jafar Panahi has said he intends to return to Iran immediately after attending the Oscars ceremony on March 15, despite facing a one year prison sentence imposed by a Tehran court. Speaking during an interview with Jon Stewart on The Daily Show, the filmmaker described the risks faced by artists who criticize the Iranian authorities. During......
Chanel’s N°5 remains one of the most enduring creations in modern perfumery, a fragrance that has shaped the identity of the luxury house for more than a century. First imagined in the early 1920s by Gabrielle Chanel and perfumer Ernest Beaux, the scent broke with traditional perfume formulas and introduced a new concept: an abstract......
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said Rome intends to provide air defense assistance to Gulf states affected by Iranian retaliatory strikes, joining the United Kingdom, France and Germany in pledging military support to the region. Speaking to Italian radio station RTL 102.5 on March 5, Meloni said the planned assistance would focus......
Less than a week after the United States and Israel launched a joint military campaign against Iran, divisions have emerged within NATO over how to respond to the conflict, exposing deep disagreements among European allies. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte acknowledged the fractures while speaking during a visit to North Macedonia. He said......
The United States and Israel have intensified their joint military campaign against Iran, with US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stating that American and Israeli forces are close to achieving full control of Iranian airspace as the conflict enters its sixth day. Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon, Hegseth said the two allies were on the......
Morocco’s Minister of Economy and Finance, Nadia Fettah Alaoui, appeared on the business program Le Monde Qui Bouge – L’Interview during the show Good Morning Business, hosted by Sandra Gandoin. During the interview, Fettah Alaoui addressed the potential economic consequences for Morocco resulting from the recent military......
Germany has confirmed that it will not send military forces to the Eastern Mediterranean despite recent drone strikes targeting British bases in southern Cyprus. Government spokesman Stefan Kornelius stated Wednesday that the situation is being closely monitored in light of ongoing US and Israeli operations against Iran and Tehran’s......
Chinese researchers have achieved a major milestone in space communications by maintaining a stable two way laser link with a geostationary satellite for more than three hours, demonstrating progress in high speed optical data transmission between Earth and space. The experiment, announced on March 3, connected a ground station in China’s......
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