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6 08, 2021

Wildfires Rage Anew Near Athens, Forcing More Evacuations in Southern Greece

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Wildfires rekindled outside Athens and forced more evacuations around southern Greece Thursday as weather conditions worsened and firefighters in a round-the-clock battle stopped the flames just outside the birthplace of the ancient Olympics. As additional support arrived from Greece’s military …

10 08, 2021

Deadly Rise in Speeding That Began During Pandemic Still Hasn’t Stopped

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Motorists put the pedal to the metal during the pandemic and police are worried as roads get busy with the final stretch of summer travel. The latest data shows the number of highway deaths in 2020 was the greatest in …

10 08, 2021

Supreme Court Last Hope for Bayer As It Loses Another Weedkiller Cancer Appeal

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Bayer lost a third appeal against U.S. court verdicts that awarded damages to customers blaming their cancers on use of its glyphosate-based weedkillers, leaving the German drugs and pesticides group to pin hopes for legal relief on the U.S. Supreme …

9 08, 2021

U.N. ‘Code Red’ Report Warns of ‘Irreversible’ Impact on Climate

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The U.N. panel on climate change sounded a dire warning on Monday, saying the world is dangerously close to runaway warming – and that humans are “unequivocally” to blame. Already, greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere are high enough to …

30 07, 2021

CDC Describes Delta Variant as Highly Contagious – Report

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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has described the Delta variant of the coronavirus as being as transmissible as chickenpox and cautioned it could cause severe disease, the Washington Post said, citing an internal CDC document. The …

30 07, 2021

85% of Flight Attendants Report Incidents With Unruly Passengers

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Incidents with unruly passengers have become an everyday occurrence for flight attendants. A national survey of nearly 5,000 flight attendants found that more than 85 percent of all respondents had dealt with unruly passengers as air travel picked up in …

9 08, 2021

Judge Tosses Patent Infringement $308M Jury Verdict Against Apple

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Apple Inc. persuaded a federal judge to throw out a $308.5 million jury verdict it lost to a privately-held licensing firm for infringing a patent associated with digital rights management. In a Thursday night decision, U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap …

9 08, 2021

Tokyo Olympics Warns Sharing Videos on Social Media Is Not Allowed

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Sharing videos from the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games on social media is not allowed, even for athletes, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Thursday as it looked to protect broadcasters’ rights. Jamaican double gold medallist sprinter Elaine Thompson-Herah was …

30 07, 2021

Bayer Books Additional $4.5 Billion for Roundup Litigation

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Bayer said on Thursday it would book an additional provision of $4.5 billion related to litigation which alleges that its weedkiller Roundup can cause cancer. Bayer made the announcement in an update to investors on how it plans to deal …

9 08, 2021

5 Key Takeaways From Latest United Nations Report on Climate Change

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Today, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change delivered its latest comprehensive report on the state of global climate science—just the sixth in the body’s more than 30-year history. The report’s 200-plus authors distilled 14,000 individual studies to produce …