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ISTANBUL, June 4 (Reuters) – Airbus (AIR.PA) is closing towards a potentially record deal to sell 500 narrow-body A320-family jets to India’s largest carrier IndiGo (INGL.NS), industry sources said on Sunday.The European planemaker has emerged as front-runner for an order eclipsing Air India’s historic provisional purchase of 470 jets in February, the sources said on… […]

LONDON, June 4 (Reuters) – AstraZeneca’s lung cancer therapy, Tagrisso, cut the risk of death by more than half in patients with a certain form of lung cancer who were diagnosed early enough to have their tumour surgically removed, trial data showed.Tagrisso is already the crown jewel in the Anglo-Swedish drugmaker’s portfolio, raking in $5.4… […]

ISTANBUL, June 4 (Reuters) – Airbus (AIR.PA) is closing in on a potentially record deal to sell 500 narrowbody A320-family jets to India’s largest carrier, Indigo (INGL.NS), industry sources said on Sunday.The European planemaker has emerged as front-runner for an order eclipsing Air India’s historic provisional purchase of 470 jets in February, the sources said… […]

ABUJA, June 4 (Reuters) – Nigeria’s state oil firm NNPC Ltd is winding down crude swap contracts with traders and will pay cash for gasoline imports, its chief executive told Reuters, adding that private companies could begin importing petrol as soon as this month.The move is part of new Nigerian President Bola Tinubu’s plans to… […]

ISTANBUL, June 4 (Reuters) – European planemaker Airbus (AIR.PA) is seeing a more predictable pattern in its industrial activities and what appears to be the start of a more positive trend in deliveries, Chief Commercial Officer Christian Scherer said.”The trend seems to want to be positive. We are seeing a steady increase in our ability… […]

[1/2] Pilots from United Airlines take part in an informational picket at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey, U.S., May 12, 2023. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz/File PhotoJune 2 (Reuters) – The United Airlines Holdings Inc (UAL.O) pilots union has unanimously voted to authorize a strike vote, the union chair said in a letter to pilots… […]

June 2 (Reuters) – Cancer test maker Grail Inc (GRAL.O) said on Friday that its telemedicine vendor erroneously sent letters to about 400 patients suggesting they may have developed cancer.Grail’s flagship cancer detection blood test Galleri is designed to detect more than 50 types of cancer before symptoms appear.The company, owned by Illumina Inc (ILMN.O),… […]

June 2 (Reuters) – Major U.S. wireless carriers on Friday said they not in talks with Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) to offer low-cost wireless services to its Prime members.Wireless shares fell Friday after Bloomberg News reported that Amazon was negotiating to get the lowest possible wholesale prices and could offer wireless plans for $10 a month… […]

TOKYO, June 2 (Reuters) – Japan’s privacy watchdog said on Friday it has warned OpenAI, the Microsoft-backed (MSFT.O) startup behind the ChatGPT chatbot, not to collect sensitive data without people’s permission.OpenAI should minimise the sensitive data it collects for machine learning, the Personal Information Protection Commission said in a statement, adding it may take further… […]

[1/2] The fully electric VW ID Buzz, is pictured on a production line at a Volkswagen Commercial Vehicle plant in Hanover, Germany, June 16, 2022. REUTERS/Fabian Bimmer/File PhotoFRANKFURT, June 2 (Reuters) – Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) will start selling battery-powered versions of its VW bus in North America from 2024 onwards, the carmaker said on Friday, in… […]