Mon 18 March 2024: The U.S. FDA has approved Madrigal Pharmaceuticals’ drug for a fatty liver disease known as non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), the first treatment to get the nod for the condition and opening up a multi-billion opportunity. The company’s oral drug, called Rezdiffra, has been approved for patients who have NASH with fibrosis, or […]
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Mon 18 March 2024: Istanbul Airport in Türkiye was named “Airport of the Year” and received Air Transport Awards for 2024 for the fourth time in a row, the airport operator IGA announced on Monday. Istanbul Airport was chosen as “Airport of the Year” in 2021, 2022 and 2023 previously by Air Transport News, the […]
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Mon 18 March 2024: In order to resolve a lawsuit brought by Australian taxi and hire car drivers who claim they lost money to the ride-hailing app, Uber has agreed to pay $178 million, a law firm has announced. The class action was filed in 2019 on behalf of over 8,000 taxi and hire vehicle […]
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Mon 18 March 2024: SpaceX is building a network of hundreds of spy satellites under a classified contract with a U.S. intelligence agency, five sources familiar with the program said, demonstrating deepening ties between billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s space company and national security agencies. The network is being built by SpaceX’s Starshield business unit under […]
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Mon 18 March 2023: President Vladimir Putin won a record post-Soviet landslide in Russia’s election on Sunday, cementing his already tight grip on power in a victory he said showed Moscow had been right to stand up to the West and send its troops into Ukraine, Reuters reported. Putin, a former KGB lieutenant colonel who […]
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Sun 17 March 2024: Russian President Vladimir Putin is leading with 87% of the vote in Russia’s presidential contest, according to exit poll results released by the Russian Public Opinion Research Center, According to the center, Nikolai Kharitonov of the Communist Party is in second place with 4.6%. The head of the Liberal Democratic Party […]
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Sun 17 March 2024: Local media in the seaside town of Grindavik, Iceland, reported on Sunday that residents had witnessed their fourth volcanic explosion in the previous three months. The Grindavikurvegur, which connects the southwest town to the rest of the Reykjanes Peninsula, has seen lava flow over it, as reported by state radio RUV. […]
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Sun 17 March 2024: Former US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that there would be a “bloodbath” in the country if he is not reelected in the upcoming presidential election. Speaking to his supporters during a rally at Dayton International Airport in Vandalia, Ohio, Trump touched on “the possibility of an increasing trade war […]
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Sun 17 March 2024: Top-ranked Novak Djokovic will skip the Miami Open saying, less than a week after a surprise loss at Indian Wells, that he needs to balance his “private and professional schedule”. Djokovic’s announcement Saturday on his social media accounts follows his 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 defeat to unheralded Luca Nardi on Monday in the third […]
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Sun 17 March 2024: The main United Nations aid agency operating in Gaza has said that acute malnutrition was accelerating in the north of the Palestinian enclave as Israel prepared to send a delegation to Qatar for new truce talks on a hostage deal with Hamas. On Saturday, the UN Relief and Works Agency for […]
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