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NEW YORK (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration has approved Lemtrada, a treatment for relapsing multiple sclerosis made by the drugmaker Genzyme. The drug has already been approved by the European Medicines Agency for…
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VIVIAN SALAMA Associated Press IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — Goran Mohammed had just completed his second year of university in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil when he dropped out to help his father run the…
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VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that Western sanctions against his country could backfire. Speaking in an interview with German ARD television broadcast Saturday as he was attending…
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NEW YORK (AP) — A media report says that talks between Hasbro and DreamWorks Animation have faded and the toy company is unlikely to buy the animation studio known for movies such as “Shrek” and…
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DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — In a tiny, windowless storeroom, elderly women sort through items normally destined for the trash. It’s an unlikely place to be saving lives. The women volunteer at…
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TOM MURPHY AP Business Writer Early enrollment for the health overhaul’s small business insurance exchanges fell far short of the 2 million workers who were expected to sign up this year. The shortfall calls into…
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The Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Oilfield-services company Baker Hughes Inc. said Friday that rival Halliburton Co. plans to nominate candidates to replace the entire board of directors of Baker Hughes after negotiations about a…
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HAROLD HECKLE Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain’s navy rammed into a Greenpeace dinghy during a protest in the Atlantic Ocean against oil exploration near the Canary Islands on Saturday, injuring four of its activists,…
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ROME (AP) — Heavy rains across an already water-logged north-central Italy have flooded towns anew, burst riverbanks and forced limited evacuations. News reports said one man near Genoa was unaccounted for after his car got…
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DINA CAPPIELLO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress inched closer to a possible showdown with President Barack Obama over the Keystone XL oil pipeline as the Republican-controlled House approved the project. Supporters in the Democratic-run…
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BILL DRAPER Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Turkey production is at its lowest level in nearly three decades and wholesale prices are at an all-time high, but Thanksgiving cooks probably won’t see much…
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BERNARD CONDON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks ended mostly higher on Friday as major indexes extended gains for a fourth week in a row, a rare stretch for this year. After flitting…
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DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Virgin America made a successful takeoff in its public trading debut Friday. The shares opened at $27, $4 higher than the price that the airline set, and ended the day…
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JEFF HORWITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hong Kong’s stock market on Friday prohibited investors from making speculative bets about the stock of a Chinese chemical company backed by U.S. banking giant Morgan Stanley for…
November 15, 2014
