Ukraine says war must be brought to just end in 2025. Ukrainian Armed Forces/Handout |
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- Investors rushed into safe-haven currencies, including the US dollar, the Swiss franc and the yen, after a warning from Russia over its updated nuclear doctrine.
- Boeing will lay off more than 2,500 workers in the US states of Washington, Oregon, South Carolina and Missouri, according to federally required filings and a union official, as part of the debt-heavy planemaker's plan to cut 17,000 jobs, or 10% of its global workforce.
- The chief executive of Airbus said that Europe's space industry needs to restructure and consolidate in the face of private US competition and investments in China and elsewhere.
- A camp of protesters opposed to the expansion of US electric vehicle maker Tesla's plant in Grueneheide near Berlin is being cleared, a police spokesperson said.
- The highest dose of an experimental pill developed by Eli Lilly dramatically lowered an inherited form of high cholesterol in a mid-stage trial, according to data presented at a medical meeting.
- Nestle will boost advertising and marketing, trim costs by at least $2.8 billion by 2027 and carve out its water and premium drinks businesses into a standalone global unit as it looks to drive growth under its new chief, the company said.
- Ireland expects a record budget surplus in 2024 thanks to a cash deluge from tech giants. In this episode of The Big View podcast, Pascal Saint-Amans, the architect of a landmark tax 2021 treaty, explains how the US's failure to ratify the deal allows havens to rake in billions.
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Trump picks Gaetz, Hegseth hold grudges against the agencies they would run |
Matt Gaetz at a campaign rally for Donald Trump. October 31, 2024. REUTERS/Mike Blake |
In Matt Gaetz, nominated as Trump's attorney general, and Pete Hegseth, Trump's choice to helm the Pentagon, the president-elect has tapped two pugnacious candidates with a MAGA-fueled mandate to gut and transform the institutions they would take over. If confirmed by the new Republican-controlled Senate, they could help Trump carry out his revenge agenda - as well as their own. |
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Pterosaurs were cousins of the dinosaurs. Illustration released on November 18, 2024. Gabriel Ugueto/Handout via REUTERS |
Aloft over the landscape of Bavaria some 147 million years ago was a pterosaur - an ancient flying reptile - with a wing span of about 7 feet, a bony crest on front of its snout and a mouthful of sharp teeth, searching for a lizard or another nice morsel to eat. Scientists have unearthed a well-preserved fossil skeleton of this newly identified species, named Skiphosoura bavarica, in a discovery that fills a major gap in the understanding of the evolution of pterosaurs - creatures that were important components of ecosystems during the age of dinosaurs. |
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