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FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — A California irrigation district with the highest-priority rights to water from a major Western river is using its power to demand federal funds to restore the state's largest lake, hoping to capitalize on one of its best...
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Brazilian state-owned bank Caixa Economica Federal is close to selling a 9-billion-real ($2.4 billion) stake it owns in oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA, two sources with knowledge of the matter said on Tuesday. The share offering of the 2.3 perce...
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Mexico's president said on Tuesday his government would push for an investigation into the hundreds of millions of dollars squandered by state oil company Pemex after its purchase of two struggling fertilizer plants during the previous administration...
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Oracle, co-founded by Chairman Larry Ellison, releases limited breakdowns in its financial disclosures, meaning that investors don’t get a clear picture of the company’s effort to move its customers to the cloud -- software stored in Oracle data cent...
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On Tuesday, Farfetch announced a strategic partnership with Harrods to provide the department store with a global e-commerce platform. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed, but the "endorsement of Farfetch’s global e-commerce model by Harrods,...
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If humanity pumps enough carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, one of Earth's most important types of cloud could go extinct. And if the stratocumulus clouds -- those puffy, low rolls of vapor that blanket much of the planet at any given moment --...
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Unusual bare circles in the grasslands of Australia and the Namib Desert called "fairy circles" aren't the work of termites, new research suggests.Fairy circles are a long-standing mystery. Some scientists have argued that they mark ter...
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When Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79, the volcano's molten rock, scorching debris and poisonous gases killed nearly 2,000 people in the nearby ancient Italian cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum.But not everyone died. So, where did the refugees,...
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Fox Searchlight is planning to remake “Sleeping With the Enemy,” the 1991 film starring Julia Roberts, as part of a new overall producer deal with Damian Jones and his DJ Films Limited, the company announced Tuesday.Jones, who first partnered with Fo...
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Bacteria lodged deep in Ella Balasa's lungs were impervious to most antibiotics. At 26, gasping for breath, she sought out a dramatic experiment — deliberately inhaling a virus culled from sewage to attack her superbug.
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Do you have a stomach bug or food poisoning? Doctors shed light on how to tell the difference.
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The sources asked that neither they nor their banks be identified because they were not allowed to speak to the media. Gunvor, formed at the start of the century by Tornqvist and his former Russian partner Gennady Timchenko, first specialized in Rus...
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Saudi Aramco's chief executive said on Tuesday the oil industry is facing "a crisis of perception" and the views of some observers that the end of oil is near with the rise of electric vehicles are illogical and not based on fact. Amin Nasser, CEO o...
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Brent oil edged up to $65 a barrel on Tuesday as Saudi Arabia and the rest of OPEC were expected to stick to their policy of cutting production, despite renewed pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump. Crude had slid on Monday, when many traders w...