By Elaine Lies SHINCHIMACHI, Japan (Reuters) – A chilly dawn paints the sky magenta and purple as Japanese fisherman Haruo Ono unloads his catch of flounder, crab and sea bass from his boat at the small port of Shinchimachi. A third-generation fisherman, Ono, 71, has been putting to sea for half a century from Shinchimachi, …
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By Greg Torode and Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) -Hong Kong’s top Catholic cleric, Bishop Stephen Chow, will visit Beijing in April, the first such visit in nearly 30 years. Chow’s five-day trip, to start on April 17, follows an invitation last year by the Bishop of Beijing, Joseph Li Shan, the Hong Kong Catholic …
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By Michael Erman and Patrick Wingrove NEW YORK (Reuters) – Bayer AG plans to spend $1 billion on drug research and development in the U.S. this year as it works to double its sales in the country by the end of the decade, Bayer’s top U.S. pharmaceutical executive told Reuters. Sebastian Guth, president of Bayer’s …
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(Reuters) -New York government officials on Thursday sent a letter to pharmacy operators CVS Health Corp, Walgreens Boot Alliance and Rite Aid Corp, asking about their plans to make abortion pill mifepristone available in the state. The letter from New York Governor Kathy Hochul and Attorney General Letitia James asked the companies to respond in …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. Senate committee harshly criticized rail operator Norfolk Southern and pressed it to back safety reforms on Thursday after a devastating Feb. 3 derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, of a freight train carrying hazardous materials. Since the Ohio derailment that caused cars carrying toxic vinyl chloride and other hazardous …
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By Steve Gorman and Bill Trott LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Robert Blake, a child actor from the Depression-era “Our Gang” comedies who won adult stardom playing an undercover cop on the 1970s television series “Baretta” before fame was eclipsed by his murder trial in the 2001 killing of his wife, has died at age 89. Blake, …
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By Muyu Xu and Florence Tan SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Private Indian refiners are jostling with independents in China for Russian ESPO crude loading in April, pushing prices higher after Moscow lowered exports of its flagship grade Urals, industry sources said. China, which is set to import record volumes of Russian crude in March, typically sweeps up …
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By Sinéad Carew and Amruta Khandekar (Reuters) – Wall Street’s three major stock indexes closed lower on Thursday, with bank stocks creating the biggest drag while investors also worried that Friday’s jobs report could spur more aggressive interest rate hikes from the Federal Reserve. The S&P 500’s bank index finished down 6.6% after hitting its …
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By Pavel Polityuk and Andriy Perun KYIV/ZOLOCHIV, Ukraine (Reuters) – Russia fired a huge wave of missiles across Ukraine on Thursday as people slept, killing at least nine civilians and knocking out power in an attack Kyiv said included six Kinzhal hypersonic cruise missiles, one of Moscow’s most valuable weapons. The mass strikes on targets …
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By Stephen Culp NEW YORK (Reuters) – Wall Street slid sharply on Thursday, pulled lower by bank stocks and jitters ahead of Friday’s employment report, while Treasury yields dropped on signs that the Federal Reserve’s restrictive policy is beginning to work as intended. All three major U.S. stock indexes slid between 1.7% and 2.1% after …
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