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(Reuters) -Nestle Health Science will buy the rights to Seres Therapeutics' Vowst, the companies said on Thursday, gaining access to the first ever pill alternative to fecal transplants for a deadly infection.

Nestle's unit will pay an undisclosed payment to Massachusetts-based Seres, and the drug maker will also receive capital infusions, the companies said.

Vowst fits within Nestle Health Science's expertise, Moreno Perugini, president... (continue reading...)

BERLIN (Reuters) - The German parliament's budget committee is expected to decide on a procurement proposal to purchase two more frigates for 3.18 billion euros ($3.46 billion) on Wednesday, according to a parliamentary source.

German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius announced the government's plans to order the frigates, which requires parliament's approval, at a keel-laying ceremony in northern Germany on Monday for the first of now six F126... (continue reading...)

KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine's Ukrhydroenergo said on Thursday it had initiated international arbitration seeking damages for Russia's destruction of the Kakhovka Dam and power station in June 2023.

The state-run hydro-electric company estimated the damage at 2.5 billion euros ($2.72 billion), it said.

The Kakhovka dam, one of six dams on the Dnipro river that carves through central and southern Ukraine, was captured at the start of Moscow's... (continue reading...)

By Sam Tobin

LONDON (Reuters) - Government officials would be acting unlawfully by implementing Britain's plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda in breach of an order from Europe's human rights court, a civil servants' trade union told London's High Court on Thursday.

The FDA union is taking legal action against the government over guidance issued to civil servants on how to implement decisions to remove people to Rwanda. It says this... (continue reading...)

LA PAZ (Reuters) - Scientists in Bolivia are hoping to track glacial changes at lightning speed.

New scientific equipment being installed at the country's Huayna Potosi mountain peak will provide real-time measurements of glaciers' mass compared to much slower older methods.

Edson Ramirez, a glaciologist at Bolivia's Higher University of San Andres, said the equipment could make hourly measurements of glacial mass compared to classic... (continue reading...)