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Boeing Starliner completes key test mission to ISS, with some hiccups
Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) was the last hurdle for Starliner to clear before it carries humans in another test flight due to take place by the end of this year. If that succeeds, the spaceship will begin regular service
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China premier issues warning on Covid-hit economy
In some ways, the challenges now are "greater than when the pandemic hit hard in 2020", Premier Li Keqiang told a State Council meeting on Wednesday, according to a readout by the official Xinhua news agency
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Pfizer offers to sell medicines at cost to poorest countries
"An Accord for a Healthier World" focuses on five areas: infectious diseases, cancer, inflammation, rare diseases and women's health—where Pfizer currently holds 23 patents, including the likes of Comirnaty and Paxlovid, its Covid vaccine and oral treatment
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Oil, gas firms use Ukraine war to resist climate efforts: report
As Western countries that import Russian hydrocarbons looked for alternatives in order to cut ties with Russia, London-based think tank, InfluenceMap, detected "an active effort from the US oil and gas industry to capitalise on the war in Ukraine"
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The refinery standing between Germany and an oil embargo
Germany relies on Russia for about one-third of its oil, and Robert Habeck, the economy minister and vice chancellor, has spent weeks preparing for an embargo, jetting from the United Arab Emirates to Washington to Warsaw, Poland, to line up alternative sources of crude
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Seeking new start, Russian professionals set up shop in Dubai
Entrepreneurs, lawyers and art dealers are among those flocking to the financial hub in the oil-rich United Arab Emirates, which frustrated Washington and other Western allies by refusing to join a UN Security Council vote condemning Russia's war
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Why isn't new technology making us more productive?
Seemingly small percentage gains in productivity can make a big difference in a country's wealth and living standards over time
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How climate change is fuelling a heat wave in India and Pakistan
The relentless heat, with temperatures soaring beyond 100 degrees Fahrenheit for days, particularly in northwestern India and southeastern Pakistan, has killed at least 90 people, led to flooding from glacial melting in the Himalayas, contributed to power shortages and stunted India's wheat crop, helping to fuel an emerging global food crisis
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The era of borderless data is ending
Driven by security and privacy concerns, as well as economic interests and authoritarian and nationalistic urges, governments are increasingly setting rules and standards about how data can and cannot move around the globe
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Russia intensifies Donbas offensive as war enters fourth month
Since Moscow's invasion in late February, Western support has helped Ukraine hold off its neighbour's advances in many areas—including the capital Kyiv—but Russia is now focused on securing and expanding its gains in Donbas and the southern coast
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How a French bank captured Haiti
Far from an instrument of Haiti's salvation, its central bank was, from its very inception, an instrument of French financiers and a way to keep a suffocating grip on a former colony into the next century