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WTO seeks to lift global vaccine IP rights
However, serious objections remain from some of the countries that host major pharmaceutical companies, like Britain and Switzerland—a problem at the WTO, where decisions are taken by consensus rather than by majority
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Volkswagen faces Brazil hearing over dictatorship-era slavery claims
The German automaker is facing allegations of human-rights violations including torture and killings, at a farm it ran during the country's military dictatorship
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Families of overdose victims demand action from Snapchat, other social media platforms
Sam Chapman, part of a group that staged a protest Monday in front of Snapchat's Santa Monica headquarters, told AFP his son died in February 2021 after a pill he purchased through Snapchat was laced with the extremely powerful opioid fentanyl
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Why India's robust economy is not churning out jobs
Even as India is projected to have the fastest growth of any major economy this year, the rosy headline figures do not reflect reality for hundreds of millions of Indians: That growth is still not translating into enough jobs for the waves of educated young people who enter the labour force each year and a far larger number of Indians eke out a living in the informal sector
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Offshore methane gas leak spotted from space
The new study in the journal Environmental Science and Technology Letters identified a plume from an oil and gas production platform in the Gulf of Mexico that spewed some 40,000 tonnes over a 17-day period in December
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America's inflation is at a four-decade high. Here's what you need to know
Americans are confronting more expensive food, fuel and housing, and some are grasping for answers about what is causing the price burst, how long it might last and what can be done to resolve it
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Russia earns $98 billion from fuel exports in 100 days of Ukraine war: report
The EU took 61 percent of Russia's fossil fuel exports during the war's first 100 days, worth about 57 billion euros ($60 billion). Some countries have upped their purchases from Moscow, including China, India, the United Arab Emirates and France
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Macron's majority in doubt after first-round of parliament vote
Macron's "Ensemble" (Together) alliance ran neck-and-neck with the left-wing NUPES grouping in Sunday's first round, with the former netting 25.75 percent of the popular vote compared to the latter's 25.66 percent
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Lessons from Henry Ford about today's supply chain mess
Ford bought his own coal mines in Kentucky and Virginia, along with railroads to carry their output to his factories. He amassed a fleet of ships that plied the Great Lakes, bearing a steady supply of iron ore and lumber harvested from Michigan's Upper Peninsula. And he erected an enormous plant outside Detroit on the River Rouge, a complex of factories engineered to handle every stage of turning raw materials into a finished automobile
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NASA plans to join UFO research efforts with 'open mind'
The study would try to scientifically examine identifying available data, ascertain how to best collect future data, and how NASA can use these data to move scientific understanding Unidentified Aerial Phenomena
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Asteroid samples contain 'clues to origin of life': Japan scientists
Pristine material from the asteroid Ryugu was brought back to Earth in 2020 after a six-year mission to the celestial body around 300 million kilometres away