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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Prince William said on Friday his wife Kate was "doing well" in a rare public comment about the Princess of Wales as she undergoes preventative chemotherapy for cancer.

Kate announced in March she was having treatment after cancer was found following abdominal surgery she underwent at the start of the year.

She said at the time she was well, but the couple's office have said they would not be providing... (continue reading...)

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's annual inflation continued to trend down but slightly less than expected in April, official data showed on Friday, in the first consumer price readings after the nation's central bank voted to reduce the pace of its interest rate cuts.

Inflation in Latin America's largest economy hit 3.69% in the 12 months through April, statistics agency IBGE said, slowing from 3.93% in the previous month, but a tad above the 3.66%... (continue reading...)

By Jonathan Stempel

(Reuters) - A U.S. judge dismissed a lawsuit in which Elon Musk's X Corp accused an Israeli data-scraping company of illegally copying and selling content, and selling tools that let others copy and sell content, from the social media platform.

U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco ruled on Thursday that X, formerly Twitter, failed to plausibly allege that Bright Data Ltd violated its user agreement by... (continue reading...)

By Karen Freifeld

(Reuters) - A new version of a bill that would restrict U.S. business with China's WuXi AppTec, BGI and other biotechnology companies of concern would allow companies until 2032 to end work with the Chinese firms, extending the amount of time to find new partners.

The latest Biosecure Act also adds WuXi Biologics to a list of biotech companies of concern. The other companies on the list are BGI, MGI, Complete Genomics... (continue reading...)

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian security forces killed at least 12 Maoist rebels in a gun battle in central India on Friday, the chief minister of Chhattisgarh state said, the third major encounter in recent weeks amid ongoing national elections.

The rebels, who follow a form of communism propagated by late Chinese leader Mao Zedong, have waged a guerrilla-style struggle against the government mainly in central and eastern India for decades, leading to... (continue reading...)