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It took a lot of time and effort, but the Russian multifunctional laboratory module Nauka is riveted to the International Space Station. That could be seen – also through spectacular images – on NASA TV. The Nauka was launched on 21 July from Baikonur in Kazakhstan and shortly afterwards ran into problems, among other things and in particular with the propulsion. Those were eventually…

Pharmaceutical Pfizer thinks it will earn more this year considerably from the sale of the corona vaccine that the company developed together with BioNTech. As a result, the company is also raising its expectations for the whole year. That vaccination turned out to be a gold mine for the company because Pfizer also experienced enormous growth in turnover and profit in the second quarter.…

Parcel delivery company UPS continues to benefit significantly from much more online shopping since the coronavirus outbreak. In addition, due to lockdowns, shops sometimes remained closed in the past quarter, causing webshops to sell more. As a result, demand for UPS's parcel services continued to increase, as did profits. The American company delivered an average of 24.2 million…

Jaguar Land Rover has made a loss in the past quarter. The global chip shortage, which plagues the entire car sector, also bothered Jaguar. Sales of the British carmaker were disappointing because far fewer vehicles could be produced than planned. Jaguar Land Rover, part of the Indian company Tata Motors, has three factories in the United Kingdom to assemble cars. However, at the end of…

China has put seven Americans on a sanctions list. Beijing is thus striking back at an earlier American decision to warn companies that doing business in Hong Kong poses dangers. For example, former Secretary of Commerce of the United States Wilbur Ross has been blacklisted. Washington issued a warning last week to companies that doing business in Hong Kong will make it harder to protect…

European Union countries have so far donated 4 million vaccines against Covid-19 to poor countries. That is less than 3 percent of the 160 million corona vaccines that would be donated to contain the pandemic. This is evident from documents from the EU. It mainly concerns doses of AstraZeneca. The European Union has committed itself to help vaccinate vulnerable people around the world,…