Don’t miss a thing! Sign up to the Daily Star’s newsletter A former KGB agent has claimed despotic dictator Vladimir Putin, 69, is likely suffering from Parkinson's and early-stage dementia as well as a 'Stalin-like paranoia'. Since his invasion of Ukraine two months ago, Putin's increasingly frail and unhinged television appearances have fuelled debate that […]
By Muyu Xu and Gavin Maguire BEIJING/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – China’s job market is showing signs of recovery as firms resume operations and an easing of measures to contain a coronavirus allow hundreds of millions of people to leave their hometowns for big cities in search of work. Twenty-one of mainland China’s 31 regions have lowered […]
(Reuters) – Drugmaker Mylan NV’s <MYL.O> merger with Pfizer Inc’s <PFE.N> off-patent branded drug unit, Upjohn, will now close in the second half of this year, the companies said on Thursday, blaming the coronavirus pandemic for the delay. Due to restrictions on large gatherings, the general meeting of shareholders to approve certain matters for the […]
