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The United States approves the sale of 600 MIM-104 Patriot air defense missiles to Germany worth US$5 billion (€4.6 billion) to improve German national defense and the overall security of NATO.
2024-08-15

American spaceflight company Virgin Galactic successfully launches Galactic 01, its first private spaceflight, from Spaceport America in New Mexico, United States.
2023-06-29

The United States sends 2.5 million doses of Moderna's vaccine to Taiwan.
2021-06-20

Brazil surpasses 200,000 deaths of COVID-19, becoming the second country to do so after the United States, as a record 87,843 cases are reported in the past 24 hours.
2021-01-7

In a strategy claimed as "towards healthier products", Nestlé sells its United States confectionery business, number 4 on the market, to Ferrero SpA for $2.8 billion.
2018-01-16

A massive two mile wide tornado strikes south of the US city of Oklahoma City, causing widespread damage and causing the National Weather Service to issue a rare tornado emergency. 24 people are killed.
2013-05-20

Shinzo Abe, the Prime Minister of Japan, meets with the President of the United States Barack Obama at the White House to discuss trade, economic, and security issues including North Korea and the Senkaku Islands dispute with China.
2013-02-22

A woman kills two people and injures another at a shooting incident at a Kraft baking plant in the United States city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
2010-09-9

Cadbury chairman Roger Carr says layoffs will be an "inevitability" following the acquisition.
2010-01-19

Warren Buffett who through Berkshire Hathaway controls a significant block of the shares of Kraft came out in opposition to Kraft's proposal to float 370 million shares in order to fund its bid for the UK based confectioner Cadbury.
2010-01-5