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American troops and equipment reportedly exited via Jordan as Damascus moves to take over the last US-held base. The last remaining US troops in Syria left their base in Hasakah on Thursday, ending a 10-year presence in the country aimed at fighting the Islamic State group, Syrian officials told Middle East Eye. Following the withdrawal …
NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) announced today that it is voluntarily withdrawing all lots of OXBRYTA ® (voxelotor) for the treatment of sickle cell disease (SCD) at this time, in all markets where it is approved. Pfizer is also discontinuing all active voxelotor clinical trials and expanded access programs worldwide. Pfizer’s decision is based on the …
Robert Kennedy withdraws from Arizona ballot. pic.twitter.com/lz16mzIw13 — Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) August 23, 2024
At least 40 high-risk Chinese banks have been lost to mergers in the first six months of this year alone as local lenders buckle under exposure to debts, according to reports. Small and medium-sized banks, long an integral part of poor towns and villages, numbered 1,636 at the end of last year, according to government …
Niger has withdrawn the operating permit of the French state-owned company Orano for the Imouraren uranium mine, one of the largest in the world for the mineral used to make fuel for nuclear power plants, in a context of strong tensions between Paris and this African country. In a statement published on Thursday, Orano indicates that it …
São Paulo, Brazil – The Brazilian government announced on Wednesday that it has permanently removed its ambassador to Israel. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s decision to remove Ambassador Frederico Meyer comes days after an Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip city of Rafah killed 45 Palestinian civilians that were living in a refugee …
The IDF attacked a Hezbollah rocket launcher and operational infrastructure in southern Lebanon on Sunday, the IDF reported. In recent hours, Air Force fighter jets struck Hezbollah infrastructure in Kafr Kila in southern Lebanon in response to rocket launches from Lebanese territory to the area of Safed. https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-795850 “Israel has withdrawn all ground troops from …
🚨🇮🇱🇵🇸 BREAKING: “ ISRAEL has announced the WITHDRAWAL of 70% of their forces from the northern Gaza Strip due to the failure of their operations and because of resistance strikes. The withdrawal from the northern Gaza Strip began with the truce and accelerated with the… pic.twitter.com/rKN3bNfwBy — Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 (@jacksonhinklle) December 3, 2023 Netanyahu …
by confoundedinterest17 Bidenomics, the term for “Government Gone Wild! in terms of spending and EPA regulations, is a disaster for the US middle class and low wage workers. Even the 1% are now hurting if bought into Biden’s green lunacy. Ford is now down -48% since January 14, 2022 as The Fed started raising rates …
by confoundedinterest17 The wheels are coming off the Bidenomics recovery. US job openings (JOLTS) keep declining as The Fed withdraws its Covid sugar splash of monetary stimulus and raise The Fed’s target rate. For those enthralled by the narrative that AI will cause a margin-busting corporate revolution as millions of well-paid, middle-management employees are replaced …
by confoundedinterest17 The Case-Shiller home price numbers are out for May. The national home price index is down -0.46% YoY as The Fed slows M2 Money growth into negative growth territory. No doubt Biden (and Karine Jean-Pierre) will take credit for slowing home price growth, although The Federal Reserve slowing monetary stimulus is mostly responsible. …