U.S. backs Moderna, says government should face COVID-19 vaccine lawsuit

By Blake Brittain (Reuters) – The U.S. government should face a patent lawsuit over COVID-19 vaccines, not vaccine maker Moderna Inc, the Department of Justice told a Delaware federal court on Tuesday. The Justice Department’s court filing said the United States should be liable for any infringement of Arbutus Biopharma Corp and Genevant Sciences GmbH’s …

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Ternium CEO says could build new $2 billion steel plant in northern Mexico

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Steelmaker Ternium is considering building a new $2.2 billion steel production plant near its current Pesqueria site in northern Mexico, the company’s chief executive said Wednesday, though a final decision has not yet been made. “We will disclose the location pretty soon,” Chief Executive Maximo Vedoya said in a call with …

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Lufthansa IT meltdown strands thousands of passengers

By Ilona Wissenbach and Hakan Ersen FRANKFURT (Reuters) -An IT failure at Lufthansa stranded thousands of passengers and forced flights to Germany’s busiest airport to be cancelled or diverted on Wednesday, with the airline blaming botched railway engineering works that damaged broadband cables. More than 200 flights were cancelled in Frankfurt, a vital international transit …

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Fitch considera adecuada liquidez de empresas peruanas, preocupa la crisis política

15 feb (Reuters) – La mayoría de las empresas peruanas evaluadas por Fitch Ratings no encara un riesgo inmediato de refinanciamiento, aunque ciertas compañías con perfiles más débiles podrían tener problemas para accceder a capital y cumplir con pagos de deuda en el corto plazo, dijo el miércoles la agencia crediticia. Solo un 20% de …

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