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Global shares push higher on hopes of trade deal and China stimulus – business live | Business 0
- BUSINESS
- November 19, 2019
Good morning, and welcome to our rolling coverage of the world economy, the financial markets, the eurozone and business. The waiting game continues for the US-China trade deal. Chinese state media described the latest discussions, held by phone over the weekend, as “constructive,” but a report from CNBC suggested yesterday that the mood in Beijing
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Inaugural London Global Cancer Week 0
- HEALTH
- October 22, 2019
The inaugural London Global Cancer Week will launch at the Royal Society of Medicine on Monday 25 November. The week-long series of discussions and events will examine the impact of the rising global incidence of cancer, the challenges the cancer pandemic poses to the implementation of universal health coverage and the contribution of UK partners
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Climate strike: global protest kicks off in Australia and Pacific – live updates | Environment 0
- BUSINESS
- September 19, 2019
“In the Pacific we don’t go on strike, but we do other things,” says Patricia Mallam, a Fijian climate activist from 350.org. Over the course of the day, children and students from Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu, Kiribati, Tuvalu, Marshall Islands, Tonga, New Caledonia, the Solomon Islands, and Papua New Guinea will participate in events to mark
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Global warming ‘a death sentence’ for Greenland ice 0
- BUSINESS
- September 5, 2019
Rising global temperatures constitute a “death sentence” for Greenland as we know it, according to a scientist from the Geological Survey of Denmark. “We’re losing Greenland, it’s really a question of how fast,” said Dr Jason Box, who is studying the island’s ice sheet. One glacier he measured had shrunk 9m in depth over the
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Diaceutics appoints Derek Hosty as Head of Global Data 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- August 17, 2019
Diaceutics PLC, a provider of data analytics and implementation services to the global pharmaceutical industry, announces that it has appointed Derek Hosty as Head of Global Data with immediate effect. Derek will lead Diaceutics’ data team as it helps more patients across the world access precision medicine drugs by driving better diagnostic testing through unique
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Ebola epidemic officially declared a global health emergency 0
- BUSINESS
- July 21, 2019
On July 17, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC). A PHEIC is the highest level of alert for an infectious disease. WHO director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (known as Dr Tedros), declared Ebola a PHEIC on the advice of a
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