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By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The Bank of England has confounded market expectations and held interest rates steady. It said Thursday that it wanted to see more information about what happens to unemployment after the government recently ended a program that subsidized worker pay during the coronavirus pandemic. The decision to keep
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By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government is facing allegations of favoritism and corruption after a backlash from lawmakers and the public over efforts to rewrite lobbying rules and shield a member of Johnson’s party from censure. The Conservative Party lawmaker at the center of the dispute resigned
Continue Reading By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government is facing allegations of favoritism and corruption after a backlash from lawmakers and the public over efforts to rewrite lobbying rules and shield a member of Johnson’s party from censure. The Conservative Party lawmaker at the center of the dispute resigned
Continue ReadingBy Charles Riley, CNN Business OPEC and its allies have disregarded calls from US President Joe Biden to do more to tame soaring energy prices that are fueling inflation and hurting vulnerable households. Energy ministers from major oil and gas producers, including Saudi Arabia and Russia, decided during a virtual meeting on Thursday to stick
Continue Reading By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has watched from the sidelines as the government that toppled him after 12 years in power passed a national budget, dealing a major blow to his hopes of a swift comeback. The man whose shadow loomed so large for
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By Megan Marples, CNN A spectacle of light will shine Thursday evening as the South Taurid meteors shoot across the sky. The meteor shower peaks in the late hours of November 4 through the dawn of November 5, according to EarthSky. The exact peak of the shower is 1 a.m. ET, or 5 a.m. GMT,
Continue ReadingBy Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN The UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency said Thursday it had authorized Merck and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics’ oral antiviral, molnupiravir, to treat mild-to-moderate Covid-19 in adults at risk for severe illness. It is the world’s first oral antiviral to be authorized anywhere for the treatment of Covid-19. The drug comes in
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Mariana Toro (CNN) — La vacuna contra el VPH de primera generación redujo las tasas de cáncer de cuello uterino entre algunas mujeres en un 87%, informaron investigadores británicos. El estudio publicado el miércoles en la revista The Lancet estima que a mediados de 2019, había 450 casos menos de cáncer de cuello uterino y
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By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Barcelona faces an important match at Celta Vigo while its club officials are busy negotiating in Qatar to sign Xavi Hernández as its new coach. This week appears key to Barcelona’s aspirations to secure the release of Xavi from his current club Al-Sadd. Saturday’s match at
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore, CNN Business Moderna fell short of profit and sales expectations for the third quarter, and the Covid vaccine maker warned that its full year shipments of the vaccine will not meet its forecasts. Shares of Moderna plunged nearly 20% at their low point of the day Thursday and closed down 18% for
Continue Reading By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Moderna is scaling back expectations for the number of COVID-19 vaccine deliveries it expects to make this year and the revenue it will record from them. Issues including longer delivery lead times for exports and a temporary impact from expanding the company’s capacity to fill vials with vaccine and
Continue Reading By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Moderna is scaling back expectations for the number of COVID-19 vaccine deliveries it expects to make this year and the revenue it will record from them. Issues including longer delivery lead times for exports and a temporary impact from expanding the company’s capacity to fill vials with vaccine and
Continue ReadingJulia Buckley, CNN Paris, Rome, Barcelona… Europe’s cities are bucket list destinations, and rightly so. But the continent’s small towns are a dream, too, with all the beautiful architecture and much of the culture you’ll find in the big hitters, only with fewer crowds to share them with. Here are some of the prettiest small
Continue ReadingBy Madeline Holcombe, CNN Now that health officials in the US have issued emergency use authorization for a vaccine for younger children, the next step in vaccinating children is families finding the nearest dose. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended Tuesday that children ages 5 to 11 get a version of Pfizer-BioNTech’s
Continue Reading By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — The number of bodies recovered from a collapsed high-rise apartment building in Nigeria’s most populous city has risen to 36, an emergency official told The Associated Press. Ibrahim Farinloye of Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency said 15 bodies more bodies have been recovered from the site
Continue ReadingBy Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business MGM Resorts is putting the Mirage resort and casino in Las Vegas up for sale, ending a 21-year ownership of one of the strip’s most famous properties. The company made the announcement in its earnings call late Wednesday, explaining to analysts that it doesn’t want to invest more money into
Continue ReadingBy Michelle Toh, CNN Business Nintendo has become the latest victim of a global chip shortage that is battering supply chains. The Japanese company reduced its forecast Thursday for sales of its popular Switch console by about 6%. It now expects to sell 24 million units by the end of the fiscal year, which concludes
Continue ReadingCNN, CNNBUSINESS By Michelle Toh, CNN Business Nintendo has become the latest victim of a global chip shortage that is battering supply chains. The Japanese company reduced its forecast Thursday for sales of its popular Switch console by about 6%. It now expects to sell 24 million units by the end of the fiscal year,
Continue ReadingCNN By Patrick Oppmann, CNN A skinny, bespectacled, left-leaning playwright whose works until recently were promoted by the government would seem an unlikely candidate to become Cuba’s public enemy number one. But Cuban officials are increasingly taking aim at Yunior Garcia Aguilera and his proposal to hold a peaceful political march later this month —
Continue ReadingBy Patrick Oppmann, CNN A skinny, bespectacled, left-leaning playwright whose works until recently were promoted by the government would seem an unlikely candidate to become Cuba’s public enemy number one. But Cuban officials are increasingly taking aim at Yunior Garcia Aguilera and his proposal to hold a peaceful political march later this month — for
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