Image copyright Getty Images In Spring 2016, Tata Steel’s loss-making Long Products division, based at the steelworks which dominates Scunthorpe, was on its knees. The news that private equity group Greybull Capital would buy it for a token £1 was hailed as a new dawn. The deal came with a promise to invest £400m in […]
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Romanians living abroad faced long queues at polling stations across Europe. West Midlands Police said they were called to a polling station in Birmingham, England due to the size of the crowd. Romanian voters received three voting slips – one for the EU parliamentary vote, two for a national referendum. The country’s state broadcaster said
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PALERMO, Sicily — The stands overflowed with Sicilian blood oranges and almonds. Mediterranean mussels gleamed black. Taut yellow strings connected the tail fins to the grim mouths of sea bream, their silver backs curved like commas. Vendors interrupted their Sicilian warbling (“It’s her that I miss”) to tempt passers-by with traditional cartilage salads or spoon
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One month after the top editor was ousted from The Markup, a fledgling nonprofit investigative tech news site, amid disagreements with the other two founders, more turbulence followed. On Friday, Craig Newmark, the Craigslist founder and the site’s biggest backer, said in a statement that the site’s other two founders had departed. “I’ve been informed
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Brandon Woodruff allowed a solo homer but was otherwise perfect over eight innings, Christian Yelich hit his NL-leading 21st home run and the Milwaukee Brewers went deep five times in a 9-1 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Sunday. Woodruff (7-1) retired his first 15 batters before Andrew Knapp opened the sixth with his first
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BURLINGTON, Iowa — As Senator Cory Booker swept through Iowa on a four-day visit over Memorial Day weekend, he called on his often overflowing crowds to approach the presidential primary campaign through a new paradigm. “This election, I get a little frustrated, I have to admit to everybody,” he told a crowd of about 200
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Here are the 10 highest-paid female CEOs for 2018, as calculated by The Associated Press and Equilar, an executive data firm. The AP’s compensation study covered 340 executives at S&P 500 companies who have served at least two full consecutive fiscal years at their respective companies, which filed proxy statements between Jan. 1 and April
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More than 30 migrants have tested positive for influenza at a major processing center where a flu-stricken teenage boy died, the latest evidence of growing public health threats posed by inadequate facilities to deal with a surge of families and children reaching the U.S. border. It was unclear if anyone ill came in contact with
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Atlantics director Mati Diop and (l-r) actors Mame Sane, Nicole Sougou and Mariama Gassama. The first black female director in competition at the Cannes Film Festival has said she was inspired by her “need to see black people on screen”. French-Senegalese star Mati Diop made history on Thursday when
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The Commonwealth Games netball final had a dramatic conclusion Netball burst dramatically into the UK sporting consciousness last year, when England stunned huge favourites Australia to grab the Commonwealth Games gold medal with a memorable last-second victory. Now the triumphant Roses are hosting this year’s Netball World Cup (NWC2019),
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