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...“They’re fighting the fight now but no one is going to win for a few years,” said Goldberg....
...Whoopi Goldberg, who sits on the Academy’s board of governors, said on the Monday edition of ABC’s The View that “we’re not going to take that Oscar from him”....
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...What else we’re reading Rocco Commisso’s football woes The US cable billionaire purchased ACF Fiorentina, the well-known but underachieving Italian club, for €170m. The emotional cost?...
...Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine has an efficacy rate of 97.6 per cent, its developers said, based on data from almost 4m people....
...The EU drug regulator will launch an investigation next week into whether clinical trials of Russia’s Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine contravened ethical and scientific standards....
...Jeremy KingCo-Founder and Chief Executive, Corbin & King Nick JonesSoho House UK; Babington House Arjun WaneyRestaurateur Yotam OttolenghiChef and Restaurateur Sir Rocco ForteChairman, Rocco Forte Hotels...
...Vladimir Putin said he would be vaccinated with the Sputnik V jab on Tuesday....
...Slovakia’s prime minister said he was ready to stand down to defuse a crisis over his decision to purchase Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine, which has not been approved by Europe’s regulator....
...Russia is seeking to manufacture its Sputnik V vaccine in Italy to meet a surge in overseas contracts....
...The developers of Russia’s Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine have demanded an apology from Europe’s drug regulator for comments made by the head of the agency likening having the jab to “Russian roulette”....
...Almost two-thirds of Russians are unwilling to receive the Sputnik V vaccine and about the same number believe Covid-19 was created as a biological weapon, a pollster said on Monday....
...The African Union will pay three times more for Russia’s Sputnik V jab than it is paying for the Oxford/AstraZeneca and Novavax vaccines, undermining Moscow’s claim that it is supplying poor countries with...
...(FT) Coronavirus digest Russia will supply 300m doses of its Sputnik V vaccine to the African Union....
...Tehran is struggling to convince Iranians to take Russia’s Sputnik V jab. The west should heed Moscow and Beijing’s use of vaccines to court poorer nations, writes Anne-Sylvaine Chassany....
...Russia’s Sputnik V jab has shown 91.6 per cent efficacy against symptomatic Covid-19 in clinical trials, a Lancet peer review confirmed....
...Hungary is the only EU member to have approved both the Chinese-made Sinopharm and Russian-made Sputnik V vaccines....
...India, which passed 5m cases, will buy 100m doses of Russia’s Sputnik-V vaccine candidate. Eli Lilly’s antibody treatment reduced hospitalisations....
...Nicholas II of Russia, Edward VII and George V of Great Britain, Chulalongkorn of Siam and the Duc d’Orléans were among its early patrons....
...More loans were allegedly given by Cox & Kings to V Hotels, a struggling beachfront property bought by Peter and Urrshila’s father, Ajit, in 2001....
...(FT) Recovery, brought to you by the letter V, or maybe W Mapping economic output to familiar shapes makes a good deal of sense....
...“What you’re seeing is an expectation of a V-shaped recovery and that may prove to be too optimistic,” said one equity analyst....
...“So far, retail sales data are painting a picture of a V-shaped recovery in consumer spending, but it is doubtful this momentum can be sustained,” said Jefferies economists Aneta Markowska and Thomas Simons...
...The scale of the rebound should lead to upward revisions to otherwise dismal second-quarter GDP estimates, with the report “clearly boosting hopes of a more V-shaped recovery”, according to ING chief international...
...(FT) The risk of a US double-dip depression With the US economy in effect already in depression, the temptation to go for a V-shaped recovery before the November election looks too great for Donald Trump...
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