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(Reuters) – 3M Co said on Thursday it would cut about 2,900 jobs globally and scale back on investments in slower-growing markets as part of a restructuring that is expected to lead to pre-tax savings of up to $350 million.
The company said it expects to record a pre-tax charge of $250 million to $300 million due to the move, with $120 million to $150 million to be incurred in the fourth quarter of 2020.
The truth is out there, but you wonβt hear about it from Barack Obama. The ex-US president has revealed that he asked what the government knows about aliens and UFOs while he was in office. But heβs not saying what he was told.
Obama was probed about what classified information he sought during his time in the White House in an interview on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert this week. The Democrat confirmed that he asked about extraterrestrials, but was tight-lipped about what he was told.
ROME (Reuters) – Iran is ready to engage in further prisoner swaps after last week exchanging a jailed British-Australian academic with three Iranians detained abroad, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Thursday.
he UK is set to receive its first batch of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine in the coming hours, England’s deputy chief medical officer said Thursday.
“We expect to receive [the Pfizer vaccine] very shortly in the UK, and I do mean hours, not days,”Β Jonathan Van-Tam told the BBCβs Five Live radio show.
Former French President Valery Giscard dβEstaing, who led France into the modern era and was a key architect of European integration in the early 1970s, has died at the age of 94 after contracting COVID-19.
Giscard, who had been in hospital several times in the last months for heart problems, died βsurrounded by his familyβ at the family home in the Loire region.
(CNN)There are nearly 2 billion stars in our galaxy.Β At least that’s what the most current map shows. Astronomers have mapped the most extensive atlas of our Milky Way galaxy yet, including the positions of each and every one of those stars.Β The European Space Agency’s Gaia space observatory also tracked the movement, colors and brightness of these stars as well as the first visible measurement of the acceleration of our solar system.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/03/world/milky-way-stars-gaia-scn-trnd/index.html
The number of people who have died due to the coronavirus in a single day in the United States has reached a new record as the country reported more than 2,700 deaths in the past 24 hours, the highest number since April.
The grim figure, reported on Wednesday, came as new hospital admissions went past the 100,000-mark, prompting health experts to warn that the numbers are likely to increase.
Qatar and Saudi Arabia are close to striking a preliminary agreement to end a dispute that has pitted the Gulf neighbours against each other for more than three years, sources told Al Jazeera.
The expected deal comes after United States President Donald Trumpβs adviser Jared Kushner arrived in the Gulf region as part of a last-ditch effort to resolve the Gulf crisis, before the Trump administration leaves office in January.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/12/2/hold-gulf-crisis-breakthrough-may-be-imminent-sources
