TOKYO :Seven & i Holdings’ planned listing of its North American operations would enable the Japanese convenience store operator to take on additional debt for more aggressive growth than currently planned, its chief executive said on Wednesday.The listing, billed for the second half of 2026, would allow for faster store…
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WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday (Aug 5) announced it would terminate 22 federal contracts for mRNA-based vaccines, questioning the safety of a technology credited with helping end the COVID-19 pandemic and saving millions of lives. The announcement, made by Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, marks his latest effort to weave vaccine skepticism into the core of US government policy. “We reviewed the science, listened to the experts, and acted,” Kennedy said in a…
KUALA LUMPUR: British insurance giant Prudential has reached an out-of-court settlement on a long-running shareholding dispute…
LAGRASSE, France: A wildfire in southern France slowed overnight into Wednesday (Aug 6) after injuring…
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Mr Pitchai Udaiyappan Subbiah, the foreman of the construction site where the sinkhole appeared, told reporters that there was a lot of gratitude to him and his workers, with people thanking them for their actions. Speaking to the media through a translator, the workers said they were proud to have…
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SAN FRANCISCO: Meta on Tuesday (Aug 5) said it shut nearly 7 million WhatsApp accounts linked to scammers in the first half of this year and is ramping up safeguards against such schemes. “Our team identified the accounts and disabled them before the criminal organisations that created them could use…
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SAN FRANCISCO :OpenAI’s GPT-5, the latest installment of the AI technology that powered the ChatGPT juggernaut in 2022, is set for an imminent release, and users will scrutinize if the step up from GPT-4 is on par with the research lab’s previous improvements.Two early testers of the new model told…
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Gallium nitride (GaN) is a semiconductor that conducts electricity more efficiently and generates less heat than silicon-based chargers. This allows them to charge multiple devices faster and have more compact designs. Sockets: Check that your travel charger includes US, EU, AU and UK sockets so you’re covered wherever you travel…
