NEW YORK--Bayer, the pharmaceutical and biotechnology company, has agreed to pay$ 6.9 million to settle allegations by New York's attorney general that its Monsanto unit made false and misleading claims about the safety of the weedkiller Roundup. The sum comes on top of the billions of dollars Bayer has already paid to settle lawsuits claiming Roundup, one of the world's most widely used herbicides, causes cancer.... The lawsuit by New York Attorney General Letitia James focused on advertising

BERLIN: Weak demand for glyphosate-based weed killers led Bayer to cut its full-year earnings outlook for the second time and announce a €2. 5bil( US$ 2. 8bil or RM12. 8bil) write-down on glyphosate-related assets.In an unscheduled statement on Monday, the German drugs and pesticides maker said it was projecting 2023 earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation( Ebitda), adjusted for one-offs, to be in a range of €11. 3bil( US$ 12. 5bil or RM57. 1bil) and €11. 8bil( RM59. 7bil)

German pharmaceutical giant Bayer has lost an appeal against a US court ruling that its weed killer causes cancer. It’s the latest setback for the company which is facing thousands of lawsuits in the US.A San Francisco appeals court on Monday upheld a 2019 ruling in favour of a couple claiming they became ill after years of using the weedkiller Roundup. The court also upheld a judge's decision to sharply reduce the jury award to Alva and Alberta Pilliod from$ 2 billion( €1.71 billion) to$ 86.7 m

July wheat soared 65.75 cents, or 5.91 percent, to settle at 11. 7875 dollars per bushel.... U.S. corn ethanol was left unchanged from the current crop year at 5, 375 million bushels amid the high price of crude oil and record large U.S. gasoline demand.... China is forecast to import 99 million metric tons of old and 92 million metric tons of new crop soybeans in the current crop year. The USDA estimated the 2022 U.S. all wheat crop at 1, 729 million bushels....

RENO, Nev.... It says the colt suffered for at least 29 minutes before it was euthanized.“ It is more than disappointing that BLM will continue the charade that they care about wild horses, ” said Laura Leigh, president of the Reno-based Wild Horse Education, one of the plaintiffs. Bureau spokesman Jason Lutterman declined to comment in an email to The Associated Press. Stone-Manning said in announcing the 2022 roundup plans earlier this month the animals' population has declined since 2020 but

Sunshine ” by those who'd watched him roam wild over the years southeast of Elko.... The incident took longer than 30 minutes to resolve," she said.... She said the agency has a Department of Agriculture veterinarian assessing and monitoring animal conditions and consulting with bureau officials to ensure the health and safety of horses and people. Bureau spokeswoman Rita Henderson said injuries to wild horses and burros during roundups are rare....

by Olatunji SaliuABUJA, Nov.... 20( Xinhua)--In the crowded neighborhoods of Kano in Nigeria's northwest region, diphtheria has become a silent but deadly intruder gripping local communities in fear and anguish. Once thought to be under control, diphtheria, a serious bacterial infection that affects a person's nose, throat, and, sometimes, skin, is resurging in Nigeria, Africa's most populous country. The battle against diphtheria has taken a harrowing turn in Kano, the most populous state in N

KHARTOUM, April 25( Xinhua)--The drug Artemisinin is used as the first-line treatment for malaria in Sudan, an African country where the acute infectious disease is endemic, according to Sudan's medical specialists." Artemisinin is a chemical compound isolated from sweet wormwood( Artemisia annua), an annual herb native to China" and other temperate Asian countries, Ahmed Abdalla Khidir, a pharmacist and owner of El Nadi pharmacies group in Sudan's capital Khartoum, told Xinhua on Monday.In Suda

LOS ANGELES, March 29( Xinhua)--The U.S. Food and Drug Administration( FDA) on Tuesday authorized a second booster dose of either the Pfizer-BioNTech or the Moderna COVID-19 vaccines for older people and certain immunocompromised individuals.A second booster dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine may be administered to individuals 50 years of age and older at least 4 months after receipt of a first booster dose of any authorized or approved COVID-19 vaccine, sai

It's possible to attribute this to several reasons such as the need for residing and being seen as a financial investment in line with traditional property acquisition," Erkan explained. The economist added that home prices have fueled rent prices as well, especially in major cities, making life more difficult for households that have seen their purchasing power declining in recent years. Meanwhile, foreigners are also interested in purchasing property in Turkey.... A year later it cut the mini