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- PoliticsHuffPost
Ron DeSantis Predicts Success In Iowa, Pledges To Replace Obamacare
“We’re going to win Iowa,” the Florida governor said. “I think it’s going to help propel us to the nomination."
- BusinessAFP News
Gold hits record high as equities weaken
Gold hit a record high Monday as growing optimism that the Federal Reserve will cut US interest rates in the new year has dented the dollar in recent weeks."Plus, expectations for Fed rate cuts next year have put downward pressure on the US dollar which is trading around three-month lows, adding to gold's attractiveness."
- LifestyleHuffPost
I'm 70 And I've Lived Alone My Entire Adult Life. Here's What Everyone Gets Wrong About Single People.
"For people like me who are single at heart, the risk is not what we'll miss if we do not organize our lives around a romantic partner, but what we'll miss if we do."
- BusinessReuters
Intel, Siemens to collaborate on improving manufacturing, energy efficiency
Intel and Siemens on Monday announced a three-year deal to collaborate on improving factory efficiency and automation with a special focus on improving energy efficiency and sustainability. "Intel has big plans with our expansions, but we want to make sure that we do that with the utmost focus on efficiencies of natural resources and our commitments to the net zero," Intel's global operations chief Keyvan Esfarjani said in an interview with Reuters. Seeking to better compete with industry lea
- PoliticsHuffPost
Donald Trump Fires Back At Liz Cheney With Unexpected Confession About Eating
The former president tore into the former Republican lawmaker and appeared to dismiss a Kevin McCarthy claim at the same time.
- BusinessReuters
Brazilian lender Itau launches crypto trading
Brazilian bank Itau Unibanco on Monday launched a cryptocurrency trading service for clients of its investment platform, making the nation's largest lender the latest local player to enter the market for the digital asset's exchange. Initially, Itau's new service will allow trading of bitcoin, the most popular cryptocurrency, as well as ether, but the lender aims to later add others, said digital asset head Guto Antunes in an interview. "It starts with bitcoin, but our overarching strategic pl
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Rains pound southern India ahead of cyclone
Rains lashed southern India's city of Chennai on Monday ahead of the landfall of a powerful cyclone, with a crocodile spotted swimming the streets and cars floating away.Tamil Nadu government official Supriya Sahu warned people not to approach a crocodile, after one was spotted on the streets after being been washed out by the rains.
- NewsAFP News
Venezuela: vote shows 'overwhelming' support for claim on region of Guyana
Venezuelan electoral authorities on Sunday claimed that 95 percent of voters in a nonbinding referendum approved of the nation's territorial claim on a huge chunk of neighboring oil-rich Guyana.Maduro, who will seek reelection next year amid a punishing economic crisis, hopes the outcome of the referendum will strengthen his nation's century-old claim to the oil-rich Essequibo territory governed by Guyana.
- BusinessReuters
Rupee ends down on importers' dollar buys, recovery in greenback
The Indian rupee fell on Monday as a slight recovery in the U.S. dollar and strong dollar demand from local companies blunted positive cues that boosted equity indexes to record highs. The dollar index was last quoted higher at 103.43. Indian equity indexes rose to fresh record highs following wins for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party in state elections.
- HealthAFP News
Chasing weight loss dream, many in US seek Ozempic alternatives
Like many Americans struggling to lose weight, Marissa Montanino felt compelled to try Ozempic or one of the other new so-called "wonder drugs" described as revolutionary in the fight against obesity.Over 40 percent of Americans suffer from obesity, reflecting a major health crisis and the massive market for new Ozempic-type drugs.
- BusinessAFP News
What we know about Evergrande's financial future
A Hong Kong court on Monday gave Chinese property giant Evergrande until the end of January to put together a restructuring plan, offering the embattled firm much-needed breathing room as it teeters on the brink of bankruptcy.Evergrande has until January 29 to come up with a detailed repayment plan, with a Hong Kong judge urging its lawyers to seek "more direct discussion with relevant authorities" to confirm that the company's restructuring proposal was doable.
- NewsAFP News
US high court to hear challenge to $6bn Purdue opioid settlement
The US Supreme Court is to hear a challenge on Monday to Purdue Pharma's $6 billion opioids settlement immunizing the family that controlled the drugmaker from future litigation.At the same time, the settlement, which was approved by a lower court, gave the families of Raymond Sackler and Mortimer Sackler protection from all future civil claims, effectively protecting their other assets from opioid-related lawsuits.
- NewsAFP News
Hikers evacuated as Indonesia volcano spews ash tower
A volcano in western Indonesia erupted Sunday, belching a column of ash around three kilometres into the sky and forcing the evacuation of dozens of hikers, officials said.There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties after the eruption at 2:54 pm local time (0754 GMT), but earlier in the afternoon officials said several dozen hikers were "unaccounted for".
- BusinessReuters
AstraZeneca, AI biologics firm Absci tie up on cancer drug
Absci's collaboration with AstraZeneca aims for a zero-shot generative AI model designed to create new and improved antibody therapeutics, the company said. It did not say what kind of cancer they plan to target. Absci applies generative artificial intelligence to design optimal drug candidates based on target affinity, safety, manufacturability and other traits.
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German tourist stabbed to death in Paris 'terror' attack
A person known to the French authorities as a radical Islamist with mental health troubles stabbed a German tourist to death and wounded two people in central Paris on Saturday before being arrested, officials said.The attacker was known to authorities as a radical Islamist and was being treated for mental illness, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said at the scene by the River Seine,adding that the man had shouted "Allahu Akbar" ("God is greatest") before being arrested.
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Burkina, Niger to quit G5 anti-jihadist force
The military leaders of Burkina Faso and Niger said Saturday they would quit the G5 anti-jihadist force in Africa's Sahel region,?the latest blow to the fight against insurgents in one of the world's most troubled zones.Burkina and Niger "have decided in full sovereignty to quit all instances of the G5 Sahel, including the joint force" as of November 29, the two countries said in a statement.
- ScienceHuffPost
Greasy Yet Adorable Mole Resurfaces After Hiding Out For 8 Decades
Guess who's back, back again? The De Winton's golden mole.
- NewsAFP News
Nuclear power has role to play, atomic energy head tells AFP at COP28
It would be a mistake to reject nuclear power because of problems at a handful of projects, Rafael Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said in an interview with AFP. Grossi was speaking at the COP28 conference in Dubai, where on Saturday a group of large countries are expected to call for nuclear power capacity to be tripled by 2050 as part of the fight against global warming.But rejecting all nuclear projects because of these setbacks would be "an error", Grossi insisted.
- NewsHuffPost
Parents Who Killed Son They Adopted From China Are Sentenced
John and Katherine Snyder were sentenced in the death of 8-year-old Adam, one of five Chinese children the Ohio couple had adopted.
- NewsAFP News
Spaniard accused of helping N.Korea evade US sanctions arrested
Spanish police on Friday said they had arrested a man wanted by Washington for allegedly conspiring with cryptocurrency experts to help North Korea evade US sanctions over its nuclear programme.?US federal prosecutors last year charged Cao de Benos and a British businessman, Christopher Emms, of conspiring to violate and evade US sanctions.
