What Uganda calls modernity is a byword for bandit economy run by refugees, ‘imported’ criminals

What Uganda calls modernity is a byword for bandit economy run by refugees, ‘imported’ criminals

Unfortunately, integration of an African country in the WTO does not favour local industrialisation but instead, as a tool of globalisation and modernisation, sustains the dependency syndrome on goods and services of foreign origin with strings attached.

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Banks in US treat social media as pariah on back of $1-million-per-second withdrawals before SVB eventual collapse

Banks in US treat social media as pariah on back of $1-million-per-second withdrawals before SVB eventual collapse

Lenders are taking action, rethinking social media’s role as a potential risk rather than marketing tool, after tweets questioning SVB’s financial health prompted nervous customers to pull $1 million per second from their accounts before the bank failed on March 10.

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Shunned and stunned: Man United faithful furious Red Devils boss Ten Hag snubbed from Premier Manager of the Year list

Shunned and stunned: Man United faithful furious Red Devils boss Ten Hag snubbed from Premier Manager of the Year list

The candidates who made the six-man shortlist are Mikel Arteta, Pep Guardiola, Eddie Howe, Roberto De Zerbi, Unai Emery and Marco Silva. However, the Red Devils are to be on course, barring any further slip-ups, to achieve a top-four finish.

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Pundits rate Man City’s first 45 minutes vs Madrid best ever by an English club in Champions League

Pundits rate Man City’s first 45 minutes vs Madrid best ever by an English club in Champions League

Dressed in his turtle-neck and blazer, Guardiola turned to the crowd and whirred his arms around and asked for noise. It came at 0-0 when Rodri had just gone close with a shot across goal and the noise levels went up. City fans can be accused of being quiet, but not on evenings like this.

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Champions League: How Pep Guardiola’s hounds turned Real Madrid into dinner before raucous Manchester crowd

Champions League: How Pep Guardiola’s hounds turned Real Madrid into dinner before raucous Manchester crowd

After the match, Man City manager Pep Guardiola revealed how the Noisy Cityzens achieved the feat. He said, “We spoke just before we went to the pitch. We said, ‘Do you want to play against Inter or not? Do you want to play against Inter? Ask yourself. If you play 90 minutes thinking, I want to play against Inter, you will beat Madrid.’ They played in that spirit.”

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New report accuses Big Pharma of ‘rampant corporate lawlessness’ that cost Americans $40b in 2019

New report accuses Big Pharma of ‘rampant corporate lawlessness’ that cost Americans $40b in 2019

The report highlights 10 illegal anticompetitive schemes that US pharmaceutical companies deploy to juice their profits and keep prices high, including horizontal collusion, patent fraud, no-generics agreements and sham citizen petitions aimed at convincing regulators to delay approval of potential competitor drugs.

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‘Dogs are better suited for cancer studies than lab mice as they’re exposed to similar living environments as humans’

‘Dogs are better suited for cancer studies than lab mice as they’re exposed to similar living environments as humans’

Dogs also respond to treatments in similar ways to humans, as several clinical studies in recent years have shown. In 2019, scientists at Colorado State University completed a trial of 28 dogs with osteosarcoma that had spread to the lungs. In addition to a commercially available cancer drug, they prescribed the dogs a common blood pressure drug, losartan, which acts on the immune system by blocking the recruitment of a type of white blood cell that stimulates tumour growth.

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