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AstraZeneca reports 38% jump in pre-tax profits to $8.7bn
AstraZeneca has reported a jump in annual profits boosted by strong sales of its cancer, lung and immunology treatments, a week after it
decided not to go ahead with a planned £450m investment
in Merseyside, prompting a series of recriminations with the government.Britain’s biggest drugmaker, which …
Riverford employees to share £1.3m payout as veg box firm’s profits jump
Employees of Riverford will share in a payout of £1.3m after the organic vegetable box company more than doubled profits last year.
More than 1,000 staff at the Devon-based group, which began making deliveries from an old Citroën in 1993, will receive about £1,000 each as the employee-owned company nearly …
Thursday briefing: The outlandish plan to turn Gaza into a ‘riviera of the Middle East’
Owner of spyware used in alleged WhatsApp breach ends contract with Italy
Paragon Solutions, whose military-grade hacking software was allegedly used to target
90 people, including journalists and members of civil society,
in two dozen countries, has terminated its client relationship with Italy, according a person familiar with the matter. …Tech firms, publishers and Which? raise fears over new boss at competition regulator
British conman accused of ramming police with car goes on trial in France
British conman who featured in a Netflix documentary
will go on trial on Thursday accused of deliberately ramming two French police officers with his car as he attempted a getaway.Robert Hendy-Freegard, 53, nicknamed the Puppet Master because of his career as a serial swindler, made …
Bank of England poised to cut interest rates amid UK economic gloom
Bank of England policymakers are poised to cut interest rates and downgrade forecasts for economic growth, underlining the risks facing Rachel Reeves’s budget plans.
, the nine-member monetary policy committee (MPC) is widely expected to cut rates by a quarter point to 4.5% …Parts of Japan blanketed by thick snow during strongest cold front for years
Large parts of Japan have been blanketed with snow, as the lowest temperatures this winter disrupted rail and air travel, amid warnings that more heavy snowfall was expected through the weekend.
Residents struggled to dig out cars that had been buried by snow in just a few hours, with the …
‘It’s about togetherness’: Waitangi Day captures a new audience
Twenty-year-old Keshaan Te Waaka stands – for the first time – on the narrow bridge connecting New Zealand’s far north coastal town Paihia to the Waitangi treaty grounds, where 185 years ago, Māori chiefs and the British Crown forged a nation state.
Above her, the red, black and white flags …
Ukraine war briefing: Bomber dies in attack on army recruitment centre
A person died setting off an explosion at an army recruitment centre in western Ukraine on Wednesday, officials said
, amid a string of attacks against the mobilisation effort. The explosion at the Kamianets-Podilsky recruitment centre wounded four other people, said Sergiy Tyurin, the regional administrator. Ukrainian police said …