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Heidi Harley
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4 years ago
For the past six weeks, Algerians have marched to unseat not only President Abdelaziz Bouteflika but also the whole ruling elite -- veterans of an independence war against France, plus their allies in the army, business, legislature and unions. Some...
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Heidi Harley
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4 years ago
AstraZeneca will pay the Japanese drugmaker Daiichi Sankyo Co. $1.35 billion upfront to jointly develop and commercialize the cancer therapy trastuzumab deruxtecan, with as much as $5.6 billion in additional payments subject to sales milestones and o...
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Heidi Harley
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4 years ago
Extreme weather events, supercharged by climate change, affected some 62 million people around the world in 2018, the United Nations' weather agency said Thursday.
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
Thousands of protesters gathered in central Algiers on Friday, piling pressure on President Abdel Aziz Bouteflika to resign days after the country's powerful military called for his removal. The army chief of staff, Lieutenant General Ahmed Gaed Sal...
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
Volkswagen has selected Siemens as its integration partner to help connect its 122 plants to Amazon's cloud in an effort to raise efficiency in production, the two German companies announced on Friday. "Siemens will play a key role in ensuring that...
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
For the first time in U.S. history, an all-woman team of astronauts — Anne McClain and Christina Koch — were scheduled to step out into space to repair batteries on the International Space Station on Friday. The spacewalk, or extravehicular activit...
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
AstraZeneca Plc and Daiichi Sankyo Co Ltd signed a deal to develop and sell Daiichi's cancer drug trastuzumab deruxtecan that could see the British drugmaker pay as much as $6.9 billion to its Japanese partner. The news sent Daiichi's shares soaring...
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
Despite being at the center of global scrutiny, Huawei is winning customers for its equipment as it contends with Apple Inc. for the mantle of world’s No. 2 smartphone label. "In 2019, we are cautiously optimistic about the growth in 5G business,” G...
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An Australian appeals court on Friday dismissed a bullying case brought by an engineer who accused his former supervisor of repeatedly breaking wind toward him.
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
African conglomerate Naspers Ltd. revealed this week that it plans to list a portfolio that includes a range of tech investments, from food delivery to online platforms for second-hand goods. The new Amsterdam-based company will also hold a massive...
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
Rocket Lab executed its first launch of the year from New Zealand today, sending an experimental satellite into orbit for the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The company’s Electron launch vehicle lifted off from Launch Complex 1...
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
ING balked because a single tenant, WeWork Cos., would be responsible for paying all the rent. Increasingly, lenders in Europe are cooling toward the co-working giant, which started with six floors in a tenement-style building in New York’s SoHo dis...
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
From June, all such apps will have to install a “youth mode” feature for parents that can limit what children watch and for how long, according to a note published on the website of the Cyberspace Administration of China. While the regulator didn’t...
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
Young Germans are making themselves heard with demonstrations over climate change on Friday, marking a passionate engagement with politics not seen since reunification in the fast-ageing nation. Inspired by Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunbe...
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
The app was developed by Living Hope Ministries, a Christian group started some 30 years ago, which says it serves people feeling conflicted about their faith and sexuality. Among mainstream medical professionals, conversion therapy is considered ps...