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Global aluminium premiums were little changed this week, with good support from steady market conditions, but premiums in South Korea moved higher due to low levels of inventory.

China urged India and Pakistan to exercise restraint.

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China donated €10,000 to the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) on Tuesday, after the Chinese ambassador to Cyprus Huang Xingyuan paid a visit to the CMP laboratory. Xingyuan underlined the support of China to the CMP’s humanitarian efforts and discussed possible areas of cooperation with CMP members, an announcement issued by the committee said. This […]

Pharmaceutical executives seemed to reach a consensus that it'll take government action to solve the conundrum of how we get to lower drug prices.

• Pharmaceutical CEOs and executives from seven companies went in front of Congress on Tuesday to testify about the high price of prescription drugs.
• Over the course of a few hours, senators grilled the executives about the role they play in setting high prices for Americans as well as what they could do to fix it. 
• Toward the end, the executives seemed to reach a consensus that it'll take government action to solve the conundrum of how we get to lower prices. 
• One government action they don't support... Читать дальше...

LEICESTER might have pulled off a masterstroke by convincing Brendan Rodgers to leave Celtic and take over as Claude Puel’s successor.

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Will this film forever change the cinema? You can’t prove it won’t!

The movies that push this artform we call “the cinema” forward aren’t always obvious from afar. Did anyone know Citizen Kane would change the language of how films are shot and edited? Was The Godfather, based on a disreputable potboiler and plagued with production problems, on anyone’s radar when it first hit theaters? Remember how 20th Century Fox had next to no faith in Star Wars?

And yet sometimes you can see... Читать дальше...

Thailand’s natural gas depletion problems are causing the southeast Asian country to make significant changes to its energy mix. The capacity of non-hydro renewables in Thailand may expand to 21 percent of the country s total power capacity mix at 14,858 MW by 2028, according to a recent report by Fitch Solutions. The report projected that capacity growth in the renewables sector to be robust over the next decade, mostly driven by the biomass and solar sectors as the country mitigates the loss of its natural gas reserves. Читать дальше...

Nigeria seeking nearly US$20 billion from international oil majors in back taxes could delay the approval of a major offshore oil project, Shell’s Upstream Director Andy Brown told Reuters on Tuesday.   Nigeria has asked the oil majors operating in the country to pay a total of almost US$20 billion in outstanding taxes and royalties that it says is owed to various Nigerian states, Reuters reported last week, citing government and industry sources.   Shell, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Total, Eni, and Equinor... Читать дальше...

Greeters have been a signature part of Walmart's store experience since the 1980s. Now the giant retailer is fast learning that changing the job can create a media and marketing firestorm.