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Trump admin sows doubt over vaccines in 'Make America Healthy Again' report
AFP, Published on 23/05/2025
» WASHINGTON - A highly anticipated White House report outlining Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s agenda devotes significant space to raising alarm over vaccines, while touching on environmental and nutrition concerns that remain at odds with broader administration actions.
iCon boss cries as he learns of devastated investors' deaths
Online Reporters, Published on 14/10/2024
» The iCon Group founder and CEO Warathaphon Waratyaworrakul cried and promised full compensation while facing relatives of investing partners who lost their money and died after his company's products failed to sell.
US jury orders Monsanto to pay $857m over chemicals in school
AFP, Published on 19/12/2023
» LOS ANGELES - A US jury on Monday ordered chemical company Monsanto to pay $857 million to seven people at a school in the western state of Washington who said they were sickened by chemicals leaking from light fittings.
EU aims to require halving pesticide use
Bloomberg News, Published on 22/06/2022
» The European Union is sticking with a plan to halve the use of the pesticides by 2030 even as agriculture comes under pressure from shortages sparked by Russia’s tactics in its war against Ukraine.
US high court denies Bayer bid to block Roundup weedkiller lawsuits
AFP, Published on 22/06/2022
» WASHINGTON: The US Supreme Court on Tuesday declined an appeal from Bayer-owned Monsanto that aimed to challenge thousands of lawsuits claiming its weedkiller Roundup causes cancer -- a potentially costly ruling.
Los Angeles suing Monsanto for chemicals in waterways
AFP, Published on 08/03/2022
» LOS ANGELES - Chemical company Monsanto found itself in the horns of yet another lawsuit Monday, as Los Angeles sued the firm for allegedly knowingly polluting waterways in one of the biggest cities in the United States.
Bayer loses another appeal against Roundup cancer verdict
AFP, Published on 11/08/2021
» SAN FRANCISCO: German pharmaceutical and chemical giant Bayer lost another appeal against a verdict that found its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer, the latest setback in its bid to end thousands of lawsuits over the product.
Bayer campaign against glyphosate ban revealed
Published on 18/09/2020
» The chemicals giant Bayer and the US government cooperated closely last year to lobby Thailand to reverse its ban on glyphosate, used in the company’s controversial weedkiller Roundup, documents obtained by an environmental group and reviewed by Reuters show.
Bayer loses appeal in California Roundup cancer verdict
AFP, Published on 21/07/2020
» LOS ANGELES - Bayer on Monday lost an appeal challenging the outcome of the first case to go to trial in the US over the company's weedkiller Roundup, though the court reduced the punitive damages awarded to the plaintiff.
Bayer pays $10bn to settle weedkiller cancer cases
AFP, Published on 25/06/2020
» FRANKFURT: German chemical giant Bayer said on Wednesday it had agreed to pay more than US$10 billion to end a wave of lawsuits from Americans who say their cancers were caused by its Roundup weedkiller.