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The Information Graphic Visionaries book series just launched on Kickstarter. Emma Willard, Florence Nightingale, and tienne-Jules Marey are the subjects of three books, ...

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TOKYO (AP) - Toyota reported Wednesday its profit more than doubled in January-March from a year earlier to 777 billion yen ($7 billion), as the Japanese automaker's sales recovered from the pandemic...

https://apnews.com/article/japan-health-coronavirus-pandemic-business-606731c835e06fee764b896e5e01a27c

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And make publishing personal data as an act of protest illegal into the bargain Hong Kongs Legislative Bureau has proposed amendments to local laws that that strengthen penalties for doxxing, and empower its Privacy Commissioner to request content removal from platforms and legally enforce ...

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TOKYO, May 12 Toyotas full-year net profit jumped 10.3 per cent even as the pandemic hit the auto industry, the Japanese firm said today, projecting growth despite the ongoing semiconductor crisis. The global pandemic has hit automakers hard,...

Toyota said it generated 2.25 trillion in the fiscal...

https://www.malaymail.com/news/money/2021/05/12/toyota-annual-net-profit-jumps-10.3pc-further-growth-forecast/1973682

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London's FTSE 100 rebounded on Wednesday,
supported by positive earnings updates from companies including
Diageo, while stronger-than expected monthly GDP data bolstered
optimism about a sharp recovery from the pandemic-driven slump
last year...

https://www.reuters.com/article/britain-stocks/ftse-100-outperforms-european-peers-on-strong-earnings-upbeat-gdp-data-idUSL4N2MZ22J

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Estonia Becomes Centre Stage Of Anti-Russia Military Exercises

Authored by Paul Antonopoulos via GlobalResearch.ca,

800 paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division of theU.S. Army departed from Fort Bragg in North Carolina last Friday morning for a Swift Response exercise. They were dropped into...

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/estonia-becomes-centre-stage-anti-russia-military-exercises

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Despite so many vaccines being developed across the globe, there is still a shortage of jabs in the world...

https://www.financialexpress.com/lifestyle/health/as-india-scrambles-to-begin-phase-3-of-covid-19-vaccination-several-challenges-plague-the-inoculation-drive/2250471/

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Preserving privacy is hard. I know because when I tried, I quickly learned not to play with weapons Column Nearly a decade ago I decided to try my hand as a cryptographer. It went about as well as you might expect. Id gotten the crazy idea to write a tool that would encrypt Twitters direct messages...

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According to Chinese media, Tibetan climbing guides are set to climb the summit and establish a line of separation between the two countries at the peak...

https://www.financialexpress.com/lifestyle/science/china-to-erect-line-separating-its-climbers-from-nepalese-climbers-on-mount-everest-summit-everything-to-know/2250487/

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TOKYO, May 12 The global microchip shortage dragging on the auto industry has put barely a dent in production at Toyota, the worlds biggest automaker, thanks to lessons it learned after Japans 2011 tsunami disaster. While the latest crisis...

Announcing its earnings today, Toyota could point to ...

https://www.malaymail.com/news/money/2021/05/12/lessons-from-2011-disaster-help-toyota-ride-out-chip-shortage/1973685

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Federal prosecutors charged three Army soldiers of lawfully purchasing 91 guns from licensed dealers in Tennessee and Kentucky, and then transferring them to Chicago.Federal prosecutors charged three Army soldiers of lawfully purchasing 91 guns from licensed dealers in Tennessee and Kentucky, and ...

https://www.npr.org/2021/05/12/996059787/3-fort-campbell-soldiers-charged-in-scheme-to-traffic-guns-to-chicago

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DUA LIPA DOUBLE WINNER AT BRIT AWARDS LONDON (AP) - Dua Lipa called for a "fair" pay raise for U.K. health workers as she was named a double winner at the Brit Awards in London last night. And she had a receptive audience for her plea...

https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-music-business-health-coronavirus-pandemic-8b887d2e079e9093e87a0b9252ac46a5

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German broadcast giant ProSiebenSat.1 Groups first quarter revenue for 2021 showed a marginal 1% uptick to 938 million ($1.13 billion), despite pandemic-related lower advertising revenues. Though the Groups year-on-year Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization (...

https://variety.com/2021/tv/global/prosiebensat-1-quarterly-results-2021-1234971221/

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Yield on benchmark 10-year
Japanese government bonds on Wednesday tracked rise in U.S.
Treasury yields overnight, while two consecutive days of
sell-off in Japanese stocks boosted safe-haven demand for debt,
limiting the fall in bond prices.
*The 10-year JGB yield rose 0.5 basis point to
0.075%.
*...

https://www.reuters.com/article/japan-bonds/yield-on-10-yr-jgb-track-u-s-treasuries-rise-safe-haven-demand-caps-gains-idUSL4N2MZ209

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Netflix has ordered Blasted, a Norwegian comedy sci-fi film inspired by the real-life UFO-phenomenon in Hessdalen, Norway. The film will be directed by Martin Sofiedal, written by Emanuel Nordrum and produced by Are Heidenstrm (The Wave) at Miso Film. Blasted”...

https://variety.com/2021/film/global/netflix-blasted-norway-film-1234971229/

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Of the approx 7,400 leases expiring in 2021, Mumbai has the highest share at about 44%, followed by Pune with a 17% share...

https://www.financialexpress.com/money/7400-office-leases-of-90-mn-sq-ft-up-for-renewal-in-top-6-cities-in-2021/2250472/

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Covid housing for the homeless has been beneficial not just for public health but for many of the individuals in the program...

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2021/05/homeless-reflect-on-life-in-a-new-york-city-hotel-room-one-year-later.html

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Big Blue hopes to create the ImageNet of training resources for AI-powered programming tools Think IBM has assembled a massive silo of source code for teaching machine-learning programs about programming...

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[Daily Maverick] People who are over 60 and have registered to receive the vaccine on the government's system will soon receive a message to schedule their appointments as the Minister of Health Dr Zweli Mkhize said they were still on track to start the next phase of vaccinations by Monday next week...

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TOKYO :SoftBank Group Corp on Wednesday reported a 4.027 trillion yen (US$36.99 billion) fourth-quarter profit at its Vision Fund unit after booking a gain on investment Coupang, underscoring its recovery a year after a record loss...

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/business/softbank-posts-us-37-billion-vision-fund-profit--eyes-further-ipos-14794248

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The BP share price is still way down on pre-pandemic levels, despite strong Q1 figures. Can it ever recover its previous strength?
The post Will the BP share price ever get back to 500p? appeared first on The Motley Fool UK.

For much of 2018, BP (LSE: BP) shares were trading at above 500p, reaching...

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SINGAPORE:Veteran journalist Patrick Daniel will be the newinterim CEO for SPH Media Trust, the new entity that will be formed after Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) restructures its media business.

Mr Daniel was former deputy CEO of SPH and previously editor-in-chief of the companys English...

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/patrick-daniel-interim-ceo-for-sph-media-trust-media-veteran-14794114

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The Greggs share price has been rising. But can it climb further from its current level? Heres my view after recent results.
The post The Greggs share price is up 40% in 2021. Should I buy now? appeared first on The Motley Fool UK.

The Greggs (LSE: GRG) share price has been rising this year. It ...

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The UKs economy contracted by 1.5 per cent between January and March as a result of lockdown restrictions, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has said...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/uk-economy-2021-covid-impact-b1846054.html

SINGAPORE: Nine contracts worth about RM1 billion (S$320 million) were recently awarded for systems works on the Johor Bahru-Singapore Rapid Transit System (RTS) Link, said operator RTS Operations.

RTS Operations - formed in 2020 as a joint venture between Singapores SMRT and Malaysian rail...

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/320-million-contracts-rts-link-14794292

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The 2019 Isle Of Man Senior TT winner Dean Harrison has announced a switch to Dunlop tyres for his road racing programme with Silicone Engineering Racing Kawasaki.
The post Dean Harrison to race on Dunlop appeared first on Tyrepress...

https://www.tyrepress.com/2021/05/dean-harrison-to-race-on-dunlop/

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Consolidating and securing working from home remains a focus

Research among 120 UK IT leaders by Computing Delta found that the majority of organisations increased their IT budgets in 2021, in part to cope with the pandemic, with most expecting levels to remain static (42 per cent) or rise (36 per...

https://www.computing.co.uk/research/4031106/spending-priorities-dominated-cloud-end-user-compute-security-research

Malaysia on Wednesday said the U.S. Department of Justice has returned 1.9 billion ringgit (US$460.22 million) of funds recovered from assets related to state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB...

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/business/malaysia-says-us-returns-us-460-million-in-recovered-1mdb-funds-14794296

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Japanese stocks ended lower on
Wednesday, tracking an extended sell-off in Asian shares, as
investors refrained from placing big bets amid the Bank of
Japan's absence in supporting the market despite a sharp drop in
the previous session...

https://www.reuters.com/article/japan-stocks-close/japanese-shares-extend-losses-as-bojs-lack-of-action-disappoints-idUSL4N2MZ1P1

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"The pre-pandemic requirement for medical oxygen in India was about 700 tonnes a day. In wave one, the demand went to about 3,000 tonnes a day and in wave two, it's now 8,000 tonnes a day."The second wave of Covid-19 in India quickly went from being a healthcare crisis to a humanitarian crisis when ...

https://qz.com/india/2006925/indias-largest-oxygen-maker-inox-explains-why-theres-a-shortage/

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The merger of American Lithium and Plateau Energy Metals has been completed, creating an Americas-focused developer of energy metals at a time when securing a sustainable supply of critical minerals is a global priority.

The merger combined two large lithium development projects TLC, in Nevada, and...

http://www.miningweekly.com/article/american-lithium-completes-plateau-acquisition-2021-05-12

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Le Pen Warns Macron "Danger Of Civil War" Looms If He Doesn't Handle Islamist Problem

The French government and much of the public has reacted with outrage after another open letter issued by military personnelhas warned that France is headed for "civil war" if it doesn't handle its Muslim ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/le-pen-warns-macron-danger-civil-war-looms-if-he-doesnt-handle-islamist-problem

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LONDON (AP) - Official figures show that the British economy contracted by 1.5% in the first quarter of 2021, a relatively modest contraction given that the country was in the midst of a strict lockdown to combat a second wave of the coronavirus...

https://apnews.com/article/europe-economy-global-trade-health-coronavirus-pandemic-9cfbb6bac2de18266ed80e70f724fd6f

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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - Maine has decided to hand its "School Nurse of the Year" award to all the school nurses in the state.Gov. Janet Mills, a Democrat, and the Maine Department of Education said Wednesday they and the Maine Association of School Nurses are recognizing all school nurses as the "...

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