BEIRUT (Reuters) – Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Friday that his group would wait for results of an investigation into the Beirut port explosion, but if it turns out to be a sabotage operation by Israel, it would “pay an equal price”. The leader of the powerful Iran-backed …
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(Reuters) – Facebook Inc (FB.O) said on Friday that Apple Inc (AAPL.O) had rejected his request to waive a 30% commission fee, the iPhone maker charges apps called on iOS devices, and made a shot at his fellow Big Tech peer when developers challenged the policy. FILE PHOTO: A 3D-printed …
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(Reuters) – Greenland’s ice sheet may have shrunk past the point of return, with ice likely to melt, no matter how fast global warming emits from global warming, new research suggests. A fishing vessel will be in the ice fjord near Ilulissat, Greenland 12 September 2017. Photo taken 12 September …
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* China, US data miss expectations * Travel shares plummet on UK quarantine movement * Review for US-China trade plan scheduled for Saturday * Graph: Global FX Rates in 2020 tmsnrt.rs/2RBWI5E (Updates pricing, changes comment, dateline; previous LONDON) By Rodrigo Campos NEW YORK, Aug 14 (Reuters) – Shares dip on …
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WASHINGTON / SEATTLE (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Justice has opened a criminal probe into whether the former head of NASA’s human spaceflight gave Boeing Co.PROHIBITION) wrong guidance during a lucrative lunar-lander contract competition, said two people familiar with the matter on Friday. PHILO PHOTO: The Department of Justice …
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