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...Two other Icahn nominees failed to attract enough votes to win board seats, paving the way for Illumina chief executive Francis deSouza and director Robert Epstein to be re-elected....
...Argentina’s new president Javier Milei will put into practice the sharp rightward shift in foreign policy he promised on the campaign trail with visits this week to hardline leaders in Israel and Italy on...
...Javier Milei, a radical libertarian economist and first-term congressman, has won a decisive victory in Argentina’s presidential election, vowing “drastic” changes to the country’s economic strategy amid...
...“Javier admires him. He trusts him, and there is maybe chemistry between them, so he will listen to his [advice],” said one LLA insider. “But Javier will be the president.”...
...Activist investor Carl Icahn attacked the deal as reckless and pushed for the exit of Illumina’s longstanding chief executive Francis deSouza, who in June agreed to step down....
...“Francis is a man I fully respect and who has been struggling to bring peace to the world,” said the business leader....
...Javier Milei swept to victory in Sunday’s run-off election, promising “drastic changes” to the country’s economic strategy amid its worst crisis in two decades....
...Libertarian economist Javier Milei powered through the early stages of Argentina’s presidential election on the strength of a radical plan, an eccentric persona, and a chainsaw....
...The US activist investor branded the deal as reckless and pushed for the departure of Illumina’s longstanding chief executive Francis deSouza, who in June agreed to step down....
...Earlier this year, the company’s chief executive Francis deSouza resigned following a bruising proxy battle with activist investor Carl Icahn, who led a shareholder campaign criticising the “reckless decision...
...He also opposed abortion, denied climate change and attacked the Argentine-born Pope Francis, a former Buenos Aires archbishop, as a “filthy leftist” and an “imbecile”....
...Argentina’s new libertarian president Javier Milei unveiled a sweeping emergency decree last night that mandated more than 300 measures to deregulate the country’s economy....
...Icahn wants to appoint three new directors to the board and remove Illumina chief executive Francis deSouza and chair John Thompson....
...Francis is at the point of that spear.” DeSouza said Illumina would be pragmatic....
...Francis deSouza’s comments come after a US judge ruled in favour of a petition by the Federal Trade Commission to cancel its action seeking to block the deal while Brussels investigates it....
...Its former chief executive, Francis deSouza, quit the company last month after a bruising proxy battle against activist investor Carl Icahn, who criticised the deal as a “reckless decision”....
...“Reuniting Illumina and Grail will transform the detection and treatment of cancer by facilitating widespread, affordable access to Grail’s life-saving . . . test,” said Francis deSouza, Illumina’s chief...
...Additional reporting by Javier Espinoza in Brussels...
...“Owning shares in IT companies and property in Manhattan is not as sexy as owning a Premier League club,” says Francis....
...“We can get this test out around the world more quickly and affordably than Grail can on its own,” Francis deSouza told the Financial Times....
...He guides us always in the way of peace, never that of war” — Pope Francis, speaking at a world faith congress in Kazakhstan, takes apparent aim at Patriarch Kirill, the Russian Orthodox churchman who backs...
...“Just as we are now able to screen for early-stage diabetes and high cholesterol, we will soon be able to conduct multi-cancer early detection with a simple blood test in your doctor’s office,” said Francis...
...The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resourcesby Javier Blas and Jack Farchy, Random House Business £20/Oxford University Press $29.95 An entertaining history of the rise...
...(More here) EU vs TikTok The social media app TikTok has come under fresh scrutiny over its compliance with EU privacy rules, writes Javier Espinoza in Brussels....
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