OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma and family members who own the company have agreed to pay up to $7.4bn in a new settlement to end lawsuits over the toll of the powerful prescription painkiller, New York Attorney General Letitia James says.
The deal announced on...
President Donald Trump has begun scaling back equal-opportunity programmes through two executive orders on his first day in the White House. Through these, he has also rescinded the 60-year-old executive order which originally implemented equality and diversity programmes in the United States.
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After weeks of speculation, Marmoush agrees to a deal with the Premier League champions that runs until 2029.Manchester City have announced the signing of Eintracht Frankfurt forward Omar Marmoush for a reported initial fee of about $72.6m.
“The 25-year-old Egyptian striker has completed a...
Here are the key developments on the 1,064th day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.Here is the situation on Thursday, January 23:
Fighting
The Ukrainian air force said Russia launched 99 drones towards Ukraine overnight in what has become a daily volley of strikes. The...
The deployment is part of Trump’s executive action to declare a ‘national emergency’ at the US’s southern border.The United States military has started to send 1,500 active-duty troops to the country’s southern border with Mexico, as part of President Donald Trump’s long-promised crackdown...
The process of nominating a new prime minister led to widespread disorder and clashes.Lawmakers in the Republic of Ireland have abandoned an effort to appoint a new prime minister amid bitter wrangling over parliamentary procedure.
The chaotic scenes in the parliament on Wednesday mean...