Eli Lilly said its experimental drug retatrutide lowered A1C by an average of 2.2% at 80 weeks in adults with type 2 diabetes, compared with 1.8% for Novo Nordisk's Ozempic 2 mg, in the TRANSCEND-T2D-2 trial.
Africa CDC and the World Health Organization convened African health ministers on Wednesday as the Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak reached 10,172 confirmed cases and more than 4,932 deaths, according to Xinhua and Kenya News Agency.
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Frontier Airlines said third-quarter revenue rose 53% to a record $1.4B, while fare revenue per passenger climbed to $67.82 from $39.74 a year earlier, according to the company and CNBC.
Alaska Airlines said it plans to fly daily between Anchorage and Tokyo Narita from May 13 to September 7, 2027, subject to government approval, according to the airline and Aviation Week.
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Google Cloud grew 103% to $30.7B, but free cash flow was -$9.1B after $51.4B of capex.
It pays $65 a share, a 26% premium to Instacart's Oct 22 close, at least 75% in cash.
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Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee apologised on Thursday for the November 2025 fire at Wang Fuk Court in Tai Po that killed 168 people, as a judge-led inquiry report found four government bodies partly responsible and Housing Secretary Winnie Ho resigned, according to Reuters and AFP.
North Korea fired about a dozen short-range ballistic missiles from the Wonsan area toward the East Sea on Thursday, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said, and Seoul's presidential office urged Pyongyang to stop what it called provocations, according to Yonhap and The Korea Herald.
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At least 68 people were killed when a high-speed Renfe train struck a stationary Iryo train near Urda in central Spain on Wednesday, and Transport Minister Óscar Puente said a control-centre decision to let the train resume at normal speed is at the centre of the investigation, according to the BBC, The Guardian and Euronews.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said 613 drones flew toward the Moscow region between Wednesday evening and Thursday morning, with 231 destroyed on approach to the city and most of the rest neutralized farther out, according to Reuters, via Al Jazeera, and Meduza.
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In its first dollar disclosure, Microsoft said Azure grew 48% from a year earlier in the July-September quarter, about 36% of total revenue of $92.3B.
Google says the model improves coding, agentic tasks and cybersecurity.
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The Federal Reserve kept its benchmark federal funds rate in a range of 3.75% to 4% on Wednesday, with two of 12 voters dissenting in favor of a 0.25 percentage point increase.
U.S. mortgage applications rose 3.4% in the week ending Oct. 23 as the average 30-year fixed rate fell to 7.37% from 7.41%, its lowest in three weeks, the Mortgage Bankers Association said Wednesday.
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Dolores Huerta, the labor organizer who co-founded the United Farm Workers union with Cesar Chavez, died Wednesday at her home in Bakersfield, California, at age 96, her family and the Dolores Huerta Foundation announced.
Four immigrant legal services groups sued the Department of Homeland Security and ICE in federal court in Boston on Wednesday, challenging a September policy that stopped disclosing the locations of detainees who have final orders of removal.
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U.S. District Judge Loren AliKhan in Washington on Wednesday issued a temporary restraining order barring the Office of Management and Budget and the Department of Homeland Security from developing or airing a set of government-funded ads, granting a request from the Democratic National Committee.
The Defense Department estimated that the war with Iran had cost $47.1 billion as of Oct. 16, up about $3.5 billion from its previous estimate through Sept. 3, according to a document provided to Congress and reported by Stars and Stripes, CBS News and AP.
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A Tehran Revolutionary Court has sentenced Palme d'Or-winning Iranian director Jafar Panahi in absentia to five years and one month in prison and ordered his assets confiscated, his lawyer Mostafa Nili told the Iranian reformist outlet Emtedad, according to Variety and AP.
Buddy Marini, the new head of Amazon MGM Studios Japan, said Wednesday at the TIFFCOM content market in Tokyo that the company will double its investment in original Japanese content, including live-action films, series and anime, Deadline and Screen International reported.
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