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Life after sumo: Retired wrestlers and their fight for new careers
Athletes in many sports can struggle to reinvent themselves after retirement, but the challenge is particularly acute for those in the ancient world of sumo
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Johnson & Johnson investors reject proposal to end global talc sales
More than 40,000 lawsuits have been filed against the company, about the baby powder's potential links to cancer and claims that the talc in the product can be contaminated by asbestos. While it has been pulled from shelves in North America, sales continue in Asia and South America
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Apple growth slows but more resilient than tech peers
The company reported Thursday that profit rose 6% to $25 billion in its second fiscal quarter, a slowdown from the double-digit growth in each of the previous five quarters. Sales increased 9% to $97.29 billion
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India woos semiconductor makers in quest to become key player
Currently, the bulk of the world's chip output is limited to places such as Taiwan and the United States, and amid global shortages thwarting supply chains from automobiles to gadgets, India PM Narendra Modi hopes to make the country a key player
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Delhi's burning hill of trash chokes capital's poorest
The blaze on the 60-metre (200-feet) high rubbish hill began Tuesday and lit the night sky up in an apocalyptic orange, belching out noxious black fumes. It was still smouldering Friday, sending grey smog curling skywards as firefighters hosed it with water for a fourth day
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Bitcoin not a panacea for Africa's economic woes: IMF
This week, the Central African Republic adopted bitcoin as its legal tender, becoming the second country in the world after El Salvador to do so
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US tells Taiwan room exists for further progress on chip supplies
Tightness in semiconductor supplies over the past two years have in some cases caused auto and consumer appliance production lines to shut down, and the United States has repeatedly urged Taiwan, as a major chip producer, to do more
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Russia strikes Kyiv during UN chief's visit
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres decried the "absurdity" of war in the 21st century
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Evaluate BP stake in Rosneft: Govt tells state-run energy companies
The call on Indian companies to explore buying the stake in Rosneft came after BP CEO Bernard Looney met Indian oil minister Hardeep Singh Puri in March. While Western nations have imposed sanctions against Russia over the war in Ukraine, India has not explicitly condemned Moscow's actions there
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Musk offloads $4 billion in Tesla shares after Twitter deal
Following these sales, Musk, the world's richest person, holds just over 168 million shares in Tesla, via a trust
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Europe approves new tech laws, US falls further behind
The United States may be the birthplace of the iPhone, Google, and even the so-called metaverse, but global leadership on tech regulations is taking place more than 3,000 miles from Washington, by European leaders who have been able to agree on basic online protections for their 450 million or so citizens of the bloc