WARSAW (Reuters) – Suggestions that Ukrainian authorities supported by Poland were behind planning and executing the sabotage attack on Nord Stream gas pipelines in 2022 are groundless, the Polish president’s aide said on Sunday. Germany’s former intelligence chief August Hanning told Die Welt this week he believed there were agreements between presidents of Poland and Ukraine to carry out the attack. “These are completely groundless insinuations,” Mieszko Pawlak, head of the international policy bureau at … Read more…

KYIV (Reuters) – Russia launched on Sunday its third ballistic missile on Kyiv in August, with preliminary data showing that all the air weapons were destroyed on their approach to the city, the military administration of the Ukrainian capital said. “This is already the third ballistic strike on the capital in August, with exact intervals of six days between each attack,” Serhiy Popko, the head of the Kyiv military administration, said on the Telegram messaging … Read more…

By Jasper Ward WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Three of the 11 victims of the 1921 race massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma, who were exhumed on Friday, were found with gunshot wounds, the city said. Two of those three victims were found to have wounds from two different firearms and one had “evidence of possible burns,” the city said in an update of its investigation into the massacre. “The people we are searching for are not just names … Read more…

By Jasmine Patterson and Nicola Muirhead BERMUDA (Reuters) – Hurricane Ernesto was weakening as it closed in on Bermuda early on Saturday, downgraded to a Category 1 storm but still threatening the British island territory with powerful winds, a dangerous storm surge and potentially deadly flooding. The storm was slowly making its way toward the Atlantic archipelago, its center due to pass near or over Bermuda on Saturday morning, with the worst of the storm … Read more…

By Praveen Paramasivam SRIPERUMBUDUR, India (Reuters) – Foxconn’s chairman on Saturday defended its hiring practices after New Delhi ordered investigations following a Reuters report that the Apple supplier rejects married women from iPhone assembly jobs. “Foxconn hires regardless of gender, but women make up a big part of our workforce here,” Young Liu said during the opening ceremony for a hostel complex for its workers near Chennai in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. … Read more…

By Nathan Layne and Joseph Ax WILKES-BARRE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) – Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Kamala Harris will hold dueling campaign events this weekend in Pennsylvania, the political battleground that may be the most critical state in the Nov. 5 presidential election. Trump, the former president, will hold a Saturday rally in Wilkes-Barre in the northeastern section of the state. Vice President Harris will conduct a bus tour of western Pennsylvania starting in Pittsburgh on … Read more…

By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – Bayer won a legal victory in its fight to limit liability from claims that its Roundup weed killer causes cancer, as a U.S. appeals court on Thursday said federal law shields the German company from a lawsuit by a Pennsylvania landscaper. The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia rejected plaintiff David Schaffner’s claim that Bayer’s Monsanto unit violated state law by failing to put a cancer warning on … Read more…

By Patrick Wingrove and Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Biden administration said on Thursday it has negotiated down the prices of 10 top-selling prescription drugs used by Medicare by as much as 79% and hopes to save $6 billion in the first year, aiming to ease Americans’ anger about high prices ahead of elections. President Joe Biden’s signature Inflation Reduction Act, signed into law in 2022, allows Medicare to negotiate prices for some of the … Read more…