Biden and Trump each had 40% support among registered voters. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid and Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo |
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- A bond market crisis that rocked Britain's economy two years ago has cast a long shadow over the country's July 4 election which will likely linger as a new government finds its feet.
- Germany's VDA auto association has urged the European Commission to drop its planned tariffs on China-made electric vehicles in a last-ditch effort to influence negotiations ahead of the tariffs kicking in.
- India has asked power companies to order equipment worth $33 billion this year to fast track capacity additions of coal-fired power in the years ahead, as the South Asian nation struggles to meet booming electricity demand, two government officials said.
- Lufthansa won EU antitrust approval to buy 41% of Italy's ITA Airways for $350 million after ceding routes and slots in a deal that will boost its presence in the lucrative southern European market.
- China is far ahead of other countries in generative AI inventions like chatbots, filing six times more patents than its closest rival the United States, U.N. data showed. Generative AI is exploding with more than 50,000 patent applications filed in the past decade.
- Sanofi and partner Regeneron won European Union approval for wider use of their Dupixent injection in patients with a chronic lung disease, a rare case of the EU clearing a drug faster than the United States.
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Online betting companies offer incentives to lure new customers such as bonus bets, which are credits that can be used for wagering. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration |
Amid a US boom in betting online, the European companies behind FanDuel and BetMGM are using features in America that they dropped in Britain after acknowledging them as risks to gamblers. |
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A carpenter ant caring for the leg wound of the other ant. Bart Zijlstra/Handout via REUTERS |
Limb amputations are performed by surgeons when a traumatic injury such as a wound from war or a vehicle accident causes major tissue destruction or in instances of serious infection or disease. But humans are not alone in doing such procedures. New research shows that some ants perform limb amputations on injured comrades to improve their survival chances. |
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