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Covidien, a Fortune 500 pharmaceutical and medical device company, settled a whistleblower lawsuit with the U.S. Justice Department claiming the company defrauded Medicare and Medicaid. According to the the DOJ, Covidien’s payments to pharmacies…
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Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil criticized the province’s liquor corporation on Friday for a delayed delivery of a year’s worth of inoculations to employees at a lobster processing plant. The 43,000 doses of Pertussis,…
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China is now included in a list of “very high” risk areas for the devastating flu bug called pandemic flu, with the government monitoring for new cases. China’s cabinet, the State Council, reported that…
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Two men were killed and two more were injured on Sunday in a shooting at a bar in Toronto’s entertainment district, police said. About 200 people were at the Deacon’s Pub, a longtime hangout…
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It has had the weakest currency in the developing world, and the Chinese yuan has had the strongest performance of all major currencies in 2019 – except the US dollar No one expected the…
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After President Trump’s signature on a new policy statement on protecting critical infrastructure against cyberattacks, federal agencies will have just 24 hours to analyze threats to certain industries before deciding whether to disclose them…
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By Yigal Schleifer and Katharine Q. Seelye Healing from the brutal Olympics crowds are flocking to to the one place to find that kind of cocoon: Beijing’s own mountains. International ski resorts including the…
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*Bloomberg News reports the decision by Yukon’s former premier has been upheld by Yukon Court of Appeal. DENVER – The Supreme Court of Yukon (Nunavut) affirmed a lower court’s ruling today, ordering former Yukon…
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By Giulio Meotti BBC News, Tel Aviv Daniel Fried says Israel has spent more than $20bn on cyber security Israel is one of the most advanced countries in the world when it comes to…
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‘I received a phone call telling me that police had found a bleach container with something in it that looked like flares or Molotov cocktails,’ says the police chief Police in New Jersey have…
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