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The Caribbean’s Groupe Antilles Glaces has become a majority shareholder of France-based desserts and savoury-snacks business Groupe Saint Aubin. Antilles Glaces, which produces dairy products, soft drinks, beer, jams and fresh produce in the French West Indies and Guyana, purchased the group from European private investment firm Capza. Financial details were not disclosed. Groupe Saint […]

Weather officials are investigating possible tornadoes that struck parts of Knox and Muskingum counties. The Muskingum County EMA Director Jeff Jadwin told WHIZ news that several people were hospitalized when a possible tornado struck the Village of Frazeysburg, located about an hour east of Columbus. The storms capped a night of watches and warnings across […]

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia has approved a project to build the first high-speed passenger railway between its two biggest cities, Moscow and St. Petersburg, to be funded with billions of dollars from the state budget, a government directive showed on Thursday. The government approved the construction of the 679 km railroad, which should allow Russian-made […]

Imagine you have a test coming up. Wouldn’t you like to know what might be on it? That may seem like a fair question, but millions of kids are sitting down for reading tests this spring with no idea what they will cover. This approach to reading tests makes the U.S. an international outlier. According […]

Man discussing prostate cancer signs with his doctor Prostate cancer is one of the most common types of cancer in men, ranking only behind lung cancer in deaths. About 1 in 8 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer during their lives, according to the American Cancer Society (ACS). Those numbers are grim, but here’s some […]

An Israeli air strike on a UN school packed with hundreds of displaced Palestinians in central Gaza has reportedly killed at least 35 people. Local journalists told the BBC that a warplane fired two missiles at classrooms on the top floor of the school in the urban Nuseirat refugee camp. Videos showed the destruction and […]

By Joey Roulette and Steve Gorman (Reuters) -Boeing’s new Starliner capsule and its inaugural two-member NASA crew were set to approach the International Space Station for docking on Thursday after helium leaks detected on the spacecraft showed fresh problems in the crucial test mission. The CST-100 Starliner, with veteran astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita […]

By Joey Roulette and Steve Gorman (Reuters) – Boeing’s new Starliner capsule and its inaugural two-member NASA crew safely docked with the International Space Station on Thursday, meeting a key test in proving the vessel’s flight-worthiness and sharpening Boeing’s competition with Elon Musk’s SpaceX. The rendezvous was achieved despite an earlier loss of several guidance-control […]

By Joey Roulette and Steve Gorman (Reuters) -Boeing’s new Starliner capsule and an inaugural two-member NASA crew safely docked with the International Space Station on Thursday, meeting a key test in proving the vessel’s flight-worthiness and sharpening Boeing’s competition with Elon Musk’s SpaceX. The rendezvous was achieved despite an earlier loss of several guidance-control jet […]

By Adrees Latif and Mary Milliken JACUMBA HOT SPRINGS, California (Reuters) – Propped up against the rusty steel slats of the border wall, migrant families who hours before crossed the U.S.-Mexico border rest under tarps and tents and await Border Patrol officers. Some of the families along this remote desert stretch in San Diego County […]