Blake Lively's sexual harassment claims against Justin Baldoni over the movie "It Ends With Us" were dismissed Thursday by a federal judge who left intact three claims, including retaliation, that will let a jury hear many of the allegations anyway.
Blake Lively's sexual harassment claims against Justin Baldoni over the movie "It Ends With Us" were dismissed Thursday by a federal judge who left intact three claims, including retaliation, that will let a jury hear many of the allegations anyway.
A pharmacist takes medication from a shelf at a pharmacy in Provo, Utah, U.S. Photo: VCG Chinese pharmaceutical makers are positioned to comfortably evade a sweeping new 100% U.S. tariff on patented drugs, insulated by their reliance on exporting raw materials and a booming strategy of licensing domestic drug rights to overseas partners. The long-brewing U.S. barrier on pharmaceutical imports has ...
A pharmacist takes medication from a shelf at a pharmacy in Provo, Utah, U.S. Photo: VCG Chinese pharmaceutical makers are positioned to comfortably evade a sweeping new 100% U.S. tariff on patented drugs, insulated by their reliance on exporting raw materials and a booming strategy of licensing domestic drug rights to overseas partners. The long-brewing U.S. barrier on pharmaceutical imports has officially landed. In a fact sheet released April 2, the White House announced that Donald Trump is authorizing a 100% tariff on patented drugs and their underlying components. The aggressive levies will go into effect in 120 days for large enterprises, while small and medium-sized businesses have a 180-day grace period. Patented drugs typically encompass original brand-name therapeutics and their modified iterations.
Turkey’s annual inflation slowed in March more than economists expected, despite economic pressures stemming from the Iran war. Annual price growth came in at 30.9%, according to data released on Friday by the national statistics agency TurkStat. The rate in February was 31.5%, and the median forecast in a Bloomberg survey of 20 analysts was 31.4%. Monthly inflation slowed to 1.94% from 2.96% the ...
Turkey’s annual inflation slowed in March more than economists expected, despite economic pressures stemming from the Iran war. Annual price growth came in at 30.9%, according to data released on Friday by the national statistics agency TurkStat. The rate in February was 31.5%, and the median forecast in a Bloomberg survey of 20 analysts was 31.4%. Monthly inflation slowed to 1.94% from 2.96% the prior month, falling well short of the median forecast of 2.34% in a separate poll of 16 analysts. The economic effects of the war in the Middle East, including surging energy prices, threaten a disinflationary trend that had already begun slowing late last year. Turkey is especially vulnerable to such shocks because it neighbors Iran and is a major oil and gas importer. In response, the country’s central bank put the brakes on a rate-cutting cycle last month, even delivering a veiled interest-rate hike. Central bank Governor Fatih Karahan told local media earlier this week that the monetary authority would continue to maintain a tight policy for disinflation. But despite government measures to cushion the impacts of the war, rising energy costs are still expected to have inflationary effects. Ahead of the release of the data, economists with ING Groep NV said rate cuts are probably not on the table “at least for the next few months.”
From controlling the weight of aircraft to sending more flights to Europe via Russian airspace, Chinese airlines have adopted a range of measures in response to the surge in oil prices resulting from the Middle East conflict that threatens to crimp their razor-thin margins. A number of carriers, including China Eastern Airlines, have been enforcing more precise and complex cost management measures...
From controlling the weight of aircraft to sending more flights to Europe via Russian airspace, Chinese airlines have adopted a range of measures in response to the surge in oil prices resulting from the Middle East conflict that threatens to crimp their razor-thin margins. A number of carriers, including China Eastern Airlines, have been enforcing more precise and complex cost management measures in recent weeks to save fuel, according to industry insiders. They include stricter load and weight...
The star returns as wealthy neighbourhood thief Coop in this rich dessert of a show. But as he tackles middle-age malaise, there’s a lot of heart – plus a guest appearance by James Marsden Does Your Friends & Neighbours love its unhappy, very wealthy characters, or despise them? Does it laugh at the 1%, envy them, pity them? It does all of the above at once and, as we return to the fictional encla...
The star returns as wealthy neighbourhood thief Coop in this rich dessert of a show. But as he tackles middle-age malaise, there’s a lot of heart – plus a guest appearance by James Marsden Does Your Friends & Neighbours love its unhappy, very wealthy characters, or despise them? Does it laugh at the 1%, envy them, pity them? It does all of the above at once and, as we return to the fictional enclave of Westport, New York – an obvious stand-in for real financiers’ playground Westchester – this mischievous US dramedy is still a rich dessert of a show, unhealthy but oh so moreish. Jon Hamm is Andrew “Coop” Cooper, a role that, if it were given to any other actor, would require them to do their best Jon Hamm impersonation. Sturdy, smooth – this is a man made of oak and mahogany, when the rest of us are bags of twigs and jelly – and seemingly always with a tumbler of $500 whisky in his fist, he is blessed with the ability to charm any man/woman into a deal/his bed. Other men have been handed their place in the banking elite and are now drifting through a life of luxury; Coop is better at playing the game than they are because he is sharp enough to see what a sham it all is. He has that trademark deep Hamm gaze, a tension behind the eyes. Continue reading...
Writer-directors Marcio Reolon and Filipe Matzembacher talk about the ‘assimilation myth’, why Wim Wenders is wrong and how they’re developing queer western and horror movies You wait for ever for a visually electrifying Brazilian film featuring scenes in a gay cruising ground, then two come along at once. First, the Oscar-nominated The Secret Agent showed nocturnal trysts in Recife being violentl...
Writer-directors Marcio Reolon and Filipe Matzembacher talk about the ‘assimilation myth’, why Wim Wenders is wrong and how they’re developing queer western and horror movies You wait for ever for a visually electrifying Brazilian film featuring scenes in a gay cruising ground, then two come along at once. First, the Oscar-nominated The Secret Agent showed nocturnal trysts in Recife being violently interrupted by a rampaging disembodied leg. Now hedonists in the queer thriller Night Stage flock to a park in the southern city of Porto Alegre where they can openly make the beast with two or more backs. “It’s the year of gay Brazilian cruising!” says Marcio Reolon, mock-triumphantly. Reolon co-wrote and co-directed Night Stage with his partner, Filipe Matzembacher, who is seated beside him this morning in their Berlin apartment. The couple’s look is best described as exchange-student punk: studded bracelets, silver earrings thick as curtain rings. Reolon, who is 41 with sharp cheekbones and a cockatoo quiff, wears a padlock on a chain around his neck. The 37-year-old Matzembacher, cherubic and curly-haired, sports a barbed-wire tattoo on his left hand. Continue reading...