Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin on Thursday launched six people to space, including the first from Egypt and Portugal, on the company's sixth crewed flight. A Blue Origin spokeswoman confirmed all six crew were paying passengers -- though Sabry's seat was sponsored by nonprofit Space for Humanity.
The United States and the European Union remain far from resolving a gridlock on their trade in metals, even as both sides agreed to extend a truce this week ahead of a year-end deadline. - "If the United States wants to maintain global influence in setting the rules of international trade, it needs partners on its side," Manak noted.
Paris hoteliers were up in arms on Tuesday over a government plan to triple the tax paid by visitors on nights at hotels next year when the capital hosts the Olympics. The government is to triple that fee as part of its 2024 budget, which it plans to ram through parliament without a vote before Christmas.
Pharmaceutical firms Pfizer and BioNTech are suing the governments of Poland and Hungary alleging they failed to pay for vaccines ordered during the Covid pandemic, lawyers said Tuesday.
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