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...Envision Healthcare, a KKR-owned company that employs doctors who staff emergency rooms and anaesthesiology departments in hundreds of US hospitals, sued UnitedHealthcare in 2018 in a dispute over billing...
...America’s storied disease fighting agency has taken the lead during every previous public health emergency since its inception in 1946....
...The annual bill for tackling the epidemic is estimated at $79bn by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....
...The price of dealing with the increase in overdose deaths is just one line in an ever-expanding list of costs associated with the US opioid epidemic, which was last month declared a national emergency by...
...(Financial Times) “Shopping mall giant Westfield said on Thursday it would buy the remaining 50 percent interest in New York’s World Trade Center for $800 million, which will make the company the sole owner...
...(Financial Times) Elite Syrian unit scatters chemical arms stockpile: “A secretive Syrian military unit at the center of the Assad regime’s chemical weapons program has been moving stocks of poison gases...
...passengers and crew were stranded on an South Korean island after a court ordered their Chinese cruise ship detained in a $58 million debt dispute.“ (Bloomberg) “Westfield, the world’s biggest shopping-center...
...(New York Times) The UN Security Council held an emergency meeting on Thursday evening to discuss the situation in Egypt. Diplomats said the council was unlikely to issue a statement after the meeting....
...percentage point reduction from the previous forecast, and a drop from 3.1% in 2011. http://on.wsj.com/VjUJzW Treaty with Japan covers islets in China spat The uninhabited islets in the East China Sea at the center...
...Not since the attack on the World Trade Center in September 2001 has the stock market been closed for more than two days....
...New York governor Andrew Cuomo ordered the state’s Office of Emergency Management to prepare for possible impact from Irene....
...On Thursday, Irene was still a category 3 storm, with wind speeds of up to 125 miles per hour, according to the National Hurricane Center, making it potentially the largest to hit the east coast since 1985...
...The Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) estimates that the U.S. will run out of cash some time between Aug. 2 and Aug. 10....
...’s debate about how effective it’s been, but there’s no doubt that the way schools operate today is dramatically different than eight or nine years ago,” said Andrew White, director of the New School’s Center...
...Just eight days later, the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center sent the world reeling....
...The US Centers for Disease Control reported that the number of confirmed infections in the US had risen to 64....
...“One lesson from history is that if you start extending the public purse to institutions, it comes with more regulation,” says Don Ogilvie, chairman of the Deloitte Center for Banking Solutions, part of...
...The deal comes a day after two other Macquarie-managed investment funds announced they had agreed to buy Airwave, the telecoms network used by the UK emergency services, for $3.8bn (£1.9bn)....
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