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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
CHICAGO (AP) — Faced with an aging American workforce, companies are increasingly navigating delicate conversations with employees grappling with cognitive declines, experts say.
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
To defeat the intertwined pandemics of obesity, hunger and climate change, governments must curb the political influence of major corporations, said a major report Monday calling for a 'global treaty' similar to one for tobacco control. Bu this will...
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
By Sunday night, firefighters in the state of Minas Gerais had confirmed 58 dead after a tailings dam broke, sending a torrent of sludge into the miner's offices and the town of Brumadinho. While the 2015 Samarco disaster dumped about five times mor...
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
China's Didi Chuxing said it had set up a joint venture (JV) with Beijing Electric Vehicle Co., a unit of state-owned BAIC, to work on new energy vehicle and artificial intelligence projects. The JV, BAIC-Xiaoju New Energy Auto Technology Co. Ltd, a...
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
The app, which includes messaging, news and other features, has users from mainly Malaysia and Indonesia, according to Hasni Zarina Mohamed Khan, managing director at Salam Web Technologies MY Sdn. “We want to make the internet a better place,” Hasn...
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
(Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc.’s main assemblers are shifting more output to India and Southeast Asia as trade tensions threaten to escalate costs in their longstanding production base of China.
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
The shares of the Kyoto-based gaming company fell as much as 2.8 percent in early trading on Monday, the most in two weeks. Shinya Takahashi, head of development, said in a video message on YouTube on Jan. 25 that Nintendo would cooperate with U.S.-...
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
Scheuer told the Bild am Sonntag newspaper he would raise the issue, and could push for changes, at the next meeting of European Union transport ministers following the publication last week of a letter in which more than 100 doctors questioned curre...
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
Loved-ones should not tell cancer sufferers they are brave because this risks putting them under pressure to appear positive, Macmillan Cancer Support has said. Six out of 10 people with cancer do not want to be described as a fighter, while many obj...
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
Maduro, 56, is confronting an unprecedented challenge to his authority after opposition leader Juan Guaido declared himself interim president citing a fraudulent election. Guaido has won wide international support and offers amnesty to soldiers who...
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
In the Chicago area, snow will begin on Sunday night. Then the "coldest air mass in years" will hit the region on Tuesday with extreme cold lasting through Friday, the weather service said. "I cannot stress how dangerously cold it will be," said Mi...
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
Fears of a second dam breach at a Brazilian mining complex receded Sunday, enabling a search to resume for the more than 300 people still missing two days after a dam collapse that has killed at least 58 people. Loudspeakers rang out at 5:30 am (073...
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
It took hours, but Germany finally agreed on a plan to close its coal power plants and rely heavily on renewable energy sources.
The country will shut down 84 coal-based power plants -- that's all of them -- by 2038 a government group decided on...