Blog Verité

Keepin’ News Real

Fairytale Of New York rings out as mourners say goodbye to Shane MacGowan

A rousing rendition of Shane MacGowan’s best-loved hit Fairytale Of New York rang out during his funeral in Co Tipperary, Ireland – as stars including Johnny Depp, Bono and Nick Cave led the tributes to the singer.

Read More

Putin tells soldiers: I will run for president again in 2024

By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday told soldiers who had fought in the Ukraine war that he would run for president again in the 2024 election, a move that will allow the former KGB spy

Read More

Honeywell to Buy Carrier Unit for $5 Billion

The security business makes products including electronic locks for big companies, hotels and hospital chains.

Read More

The Obvious Solution to Loss-and-Damage Fund Distribution

Leaders gathered in Dubai for the United Nation’s (U.N.) COP28 Climate Summit are fiercely debating loss-and-damage funding—money pledged to low-emission countries due to the costs of extreme weather and slow-onset disasters caused by high-emission countries. The central question is how

Read More

Bidenomics Is Real Economics

When President Joe Biden first promised to “grow the economy from the bottom up and the middle out” through public investments, empowering workers, and promoting competition, critics scornfully derided his agenda as “Bidenomics.” And when the president defiantly embraced this

Read More

$19 Billion in a Week: AbbVie Makes Two Big Bets

The drugmaker is doubling down on cancer and neurology as it seeks to replace falling revenue from its top sellers.

Read More

FTX Customers Fight for What’s Left of Their Crypto

Cryptocurrency prices have been on a wild tear this year. But thousands of FTX customers, whose tokens have been trapped on the exchange for more than a year, are missing out on the action.

Read More

Russia’s Vladimir Putin says he will run for president in 2024 elections: State media – CNBC

Russia’s Vladimir Putin says he will run for president in 2024 elections: State media  CNBC Russia’s Vladimir Putin says he will run for president again in 2024 election  CNN Russia announces dates for presidential poll, but who’s going to run against Vladimir

Read More

Putin to Seek Another Presidential Term in Russia, Extending Rule of Over Two Decades

Vladimir Putin on Friday moved to prolong his repressive and unyielding grip on Russia for at least another six years, announcing his candidacy in the presidential election next March that he is all but certain to win, according to state

Read More

Robot Dogs and AI: Is This the Future of EV Factories?

At Hyundai’s electric-vehicle plant in Singapore, robotic arms assemble cars in specialized cells while robot dogs monitor the procedure. It’s a new method of automaking taking place in smaller, more flexible “microfactories.”

Read More