Russian mercenary boss escalates row with top army brass with image of dead bodies

By Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) – Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin took a bitter public feud with the top army brass to a new level on Wednesday, publishing a grisly image of dozens of his fighters he said had been killed after being deprived of ammunition. Prigozhin, founder of the Wagner private military company which …

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GSK’s ViiV says study shows its long-acting HIV shot as effective as Gilead’s daily pill

By Maggie Fick LONDON (Reuters) – British drugmaker GSK’s HIV treatment division, ViiV Healthcare, published data on Wednesday showing its long-acting HIV injection is as effective as the market-leading daily pill made by Gilead Sciences Inc. GSK’s ViiV ran the so-called “head to-head” clinical study on its own injection Cabenuva, which is given every two …

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Uralchem to send second batch of free fertiliser from EU to Africa

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian fertiliser producer Uralchem-Uralkali plans to send a second humanitarian supply of fertiliser from a European Union port to Africa in March, the company said on Wednesday, this time to Kenya, after a previous shipment to Malawi in November. Uralchem-Uralkali Group said it would donate over 34,000 tonnes of its fertilisers currently …

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Israel central bank in focus as judicial reform plan hits shekel

By Steven Scheer JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel’s shekel was largely unchanged against the dollar late on Wednesday, recovering from further falls in the currency that some say could spark central bank intervention, as investors fret over a plan to overhaul the country’s judiciary. The shekel stood at 3.633 per U.S. currency at 1515 GMT, after softening …

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Meta se prepara para una nueva ronda de recortes de empleo – Washington Post

22 feb (Reuters) – Meta Platforms Inc, matriz de Facebook, planea una nueva ronda de despidos en un esfuerzo de reorganización y reducción de plantilla que podría afectar a miles de trabajadores, informó el miércoles el Washington Post. La empresa no respondió inmediatamente a una solicitud de Reuters para hacer comentarios. El año pasado, el …

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Britische Banken bekommen die trübe Konjunktur zu spüren

(Reuters) – Rückstellungen für steigende Kreditausfälle und ein schwacher Immobilienmarkt haben den Gewinn des größten britischen Immobilienkreditgebers Lloyds Banking Group auf das Vorjahresniveau gedrückt. Der Vorsteuergewinn lag im vergangenen Jahr bei 6,9 Milliarden Pfund (7,84 Milliarden Euro), wie Lloyds am Mittwoch mitteilte. Auch für das laufende Jahr zeigte sich das Geldhaus angesichts hoher Inflation und …

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London Underground drivers add to planned strike disruption in March

LONDON (Reuters) – Train drivers on London’s Underground network and ambulance workers around England will take strike action next month, their trade unions said on Wednesday, as Britain faces a fresh wave of disruption from industrial action. Britain has experienced increasingly widespread strikes since last summer in sectors ranging from transport and education to border …

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