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Paris mint lures tourists with treasures  

PARIS (Reuters) – After more than a thousand years of service, the Paris mint has thrown its doors open to the public with a vast exhibition of treasures, collectors’ coins and a view of the craftsmen in their workshops. On the banks of the River Seine, workers chisel, press and engrave medals and memorabilia in the factory that advertises itself as the oldest in the French capital, with a history stretching back to the year 864. Since the introduction of the euro in 2002, the mint – or the ‘Monnaie Read More  

               

BYU lifts decades-long ban on caffeinated soft drink sales  

(Reuters) – Brigham Young University has ended a 60-year ban on the sale of caffeinated soft drinks at its flagship campus in Provo, Utah, the Mormon Church-owned school said on Thursday. Students or visitors will no longer need to bring their own sodas onto the 33,000-student campus, Dean Wright, the school’s director of dining services, said on the university’s website. “This decision was not based on financial considerations,” Wright said. “We are simply working to meet the preferences of our customers.” The university is operated by the Salt Lake City-based Read More  

               

Wife of Princeton scholar jailed in Iran calls on U.S. to do more to free him

PRINCETON, N.J. (Reuters) – When Xiyue Wang sleeps in his cell in Iran’s Evin Prison, he sometimes dreams he is back at Princeton University, working in the school’s main library on his dissertation comparing governance systems in Central Asia. When he wakes, Wang often does not immediately remember where he is, his wife, Hua Qu, said in her first extensive interview since his arrest in Iran about 13 months ago while doing doctoral research. The 36-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen, who was born in China, was convicted of espionage and sentenced Read More

               

Exclusive: FDA plans new compounding pharmacy policy, agency head says  

BOSTON (Reuters) – The head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday the agency is working on a new policy that would encourage more compounding pharmacies to register under a law enacted in the wake of a deadly 2012 meningitis outbreak linked to one such company. FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb made the comments in an interview with Reuters as federal prosecutors in Boston prepare for the second criminal trial over contaminated steroids manufactured by the now-defunct New England Compounding Center (NECC). That meningitis outbreak sickened 778 patients Read More  

               

Tilney names two new financial planners  

(Reuters) – British investment management firm Tilney Group has appointed Tyrone Samsonroy and Ben Gibson as financial planners at its London office. Samsonroy joins Tilney from HSBC, where he was a premier client manager and provided financial advice to rich clients. Gibson most recently served as a business development manager at Royal London Group. Reporting by Gayathree Ganesan; Editing by Sai Sachin Ravikumar Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles. Source link #USA #News #USnews #worldnews #headlinenews #Breakingnews #weathernews #UnitedStates news #CanadianNews #weatherforecast top news #stories, #hourlyweather #Reuters

               

DACA tied to better mental health for children of immigrants  

(Reuters Health) – Protecting young undocumented immigrants known as “dreamers” from deportation may also help lower the risk of mental health problems for their U.S.-born children, a recent study suggests. The Trump administration this week announced plans to revoke the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which allowed about 800,000 undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children to remain in the country. For the study, researchers examined data on 5,653 mothers in Oregon born just before and after the cutoff for DACA eligibility. To qualify they Read More  

               

Vice President Pence meets with Harvey victims Video

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Don’t be cynical about love, director Del Toro says in adult fairytale

VENICE (Reuters) – A fairy tale in which a mute cleaner in a government laboratory falls in love with an aquatic creature facing dissection there – an appeal to embrace differences – premiered at the Venice film festival on Thursday. Mexican director Guillermo del Toro’s “The Shape of Water” stars Sally Hawkins as Elisa, the cleaner in the lab whose life changes when she befriends the amphibious creature, which has been captured by government scientists to study its breathing patterns for use in advances in space travel. “It’s a very Read More

               

Stars, virtual reality and migrants to dominate Venice film fest  

VENICE (Reuters) – A refugee documentary by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, a horror film starring Jennifer Lawrence and George Clooney’s latest directorial effort are all tipped as must-sees at the Venice film fest set to open on the Lido island on Wednesday. Top Hollywood talent and auteur directors will be vying for the Golden Lion at the world’s oldest film festival which, after a period in the doldrums, is again considered a launching pad for the industry’s award season, after it premiered Academy winners in its last four editions. Space Read More