EU regulator backs wider use of AstraZeneca COVID therapy
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LONDON – Europe’s medicines regulator has backed using AstraZeneca‘s preventative COVID-19 therapy as a treatment for the disease and also endorsed another…
Pound falls to 37-year low as poor retail sales lift economic woes
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STOCK PHOTO | Image by Stefan Schweihofer from Pixabay LONDON – The pound on Friday tumbled to a fresh 37-year low on…
Philippines antitrust body orders more firms to report takeovers, mergers
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(MAY 13, 2020) Houses are dwarfed by towering buildings of the Makati City skyline on a quiet Wednesday midnight as they government…
Registered births, deaths down in first five months of 2022
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A family visits the Bagbag Cemetery in Novaliches in Quezon City. — Photo by Michael Varcas, The Philippine Star Registered births and…
Sri Lanka’s economy shrinks 8.4% amid fertilizer, fuel shortages
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JALITHA HEWAGE-UNSPLASH COLOMBO – Sri Lanka’s economy shrank 8.4% in the quarter through June from a year ago in one of the…
Japan PM’s support tumbles as anger over state funeral grows
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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida — KYODO/VIA REUTERS TOKYO – Support for Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida tumbled to its lowest level since…
IMF sees further global economic slowdown in third quarter
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REUTERS WASHINGTON – Downside risks continue to dominate the global economic outlook and some countries are expected to slip into recession in…
EU lawmakers condemn China’s live-fire exercises in Taiwan Strait
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REUTERS BRUSSELS – Members of the European Parliament backed a resolution on Thursday that condemned China’s live–fire military exercises in the Taiwan…
China’s retail, factory sectors unexpectedly perk up in August
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REUTERS/ALY SONG/FILE PHOTO BEIJING – China’s economy showed surprising resilience in August, with an unexpected pickup in factory output and retail sales…
Uber says responding to ‘cybersecurity incident’ after report of network breach
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STOCK PHOTO | Image by freestocks-photos from Pixabay Uber Technologies Inc. said on Thursday it is responding to a cybersecurity incident, after…