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AIR : Typhoon Muifa misses China’s East Coast
Muifa, once a super typhoon with winds exceeding 250 km/h (1-min sustained), made landfall near the border between China and North Korea around 12:00...
US : lost its top-tier AAA credit rating from Standard & Poor’s
The United States of America is no longer top graded AAA from Standard & Poor’s. This is an unprecedented blow to the world's largest...
Typhoon Muifa expected to hit mainland China this weekend
Typhoon Muifa is tracking across the Pacific Ocean, en route to mainland China, after delivering heavy rain to the Philippines Tuesday and Wednesday. Muifa...
US : meat firm recalls 36 million pounds of ground turkey
Major US meat processor Cargill has launched a national recall of 36 million pounds of ground turkey linked to an outbreak of drug-resistant salmonella,...
US : weekly jobless claims dip, remain high
US weekly claims for unemployment insurance remained at a high 400,000 last week, the Labor Department said Thursday, as business and government layoffs persisted...
Greece : hopes EU / private sector deal completed by October
Greek Finance Minister hopes to have completed all procedures for the new debt rescue deal, including a bond swap with private creditors, by early...
AIR Worldwide : Tropical Storm Emily set to hit Haiti and the Dominican Republic
Tropical Storm Emily is expected to hit the island of Hispaniola—shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic—with heavy rain and 50-mph winds this afternoon....
China : more Chinese plan to buy insurance as awareness of risk rises
A study released by Swiss Re shows that 72 per cent of Chinese plan to purchase insurance in the next year. The main reasons...
AIR Worldwide : Tropical Storm Emily forms in the Caribbean, heads toward Hispaniola
According to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide, late last week, a wave off the west coast of Africa, 91L, began to slowly organize as...
Mass blindness claims raise eyebrows in Greece
Greece, battling a crushing debt crisis, said it would probe a suspiciously high rate of blindness benefits claimed by hundreds of residents on one...
US : expands no-cost women’s health services
Birth control pills, breastfeeding equipment and testing for human papillomaviruses will be covered under US health plans at no cost beginning next year, officials...
US : Obama announces agreement on debt ceiling
The US President Barack Obama announced that Republican and Democratic leaders have reached an agreement to raise the government’s debt ceiling and thus avoid...
US : tropical storm Don makes landfall in Texas
Tropical Storm Don, the fourth named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, has made landfall near Baffin Bay, Texas according to modelling firm AIR...
AIA : shares hit record high on soaring profits
Shares in Asian insurance giant AIA touched a record high in Hong Kong Friday as the firm said net profit in the first six...
RMS : Lone Wolf theory and Norway terror attacks
Since 9/11, a number of terrorist plots, including those planned by right-wing extremists, have been interdicted in the western democracies. In particular, infiltration of...
AIR Worldwide : Tropical Storm Don advances towards Texas coast and oil platforms
According to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide, Tropical Storm Don is moving across the southern Gulf of Mexico toward the Texas coast near Corpus...
Japan : women remain world’s longest-lived
Japanese women remained the world's longest-living last year, although their average life expectancy edged down slightly to 86.39 years, the government said Wednesday.
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US : no link between 9/11 exposure and cancer
A US government review of scientific studies has shown no proof that exposure to the dust and rubble from the World Trade Center after...
S&P : Assuranceforeningen outlook to positive
Standard & Poor's Ratings Services has revised its outlook to positive from stable on Oslo-based marine insurer Assuranceforeningen SKULD (Gjensidig) (Skuld or the club)....
Israel : PM in hot seat over housing crisis and medics strike
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unveiled reforms to address a massive housing crisis which has sparked the biggest social protests seen in the Jewish...
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