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The Pentagon announces that it will send four AN-TWQ-1 Avenger surface-to-air missile systems, Stinger missiles, 400 grenade launchers, 100 humvees, and other artillery rounds and small arms ammunition to Ukraine as part of its latest $400 million weapons package to support the Ukrainian military. $
2022-11-10

The Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic order mandatory mass evacuations of civilians from their respective capital cities, Donetsk and Luhansk. Around 700,000 people are expected to be evacuated to Russia with the first buses carrying civilians to the Russian border already travelling to Rostov Oblast. Russian President Vladimir Putin orders lump-sum allowances of 10,000 rubles (130 US dollars) to be paid to refugees from Donbas. $
2022-02-18

The Belgian government finalizes an agreement to buy 20,000 courses of Pfizer's Paxlovid COVID-19 drug and Merck & Co.'s Molnupiravir COVID-19 drug.
2022-01-3

The Sandiganbayan, the Philippines' anti-graft court, orders Royal Traders Holding Co. Inc., a bank formerly controlled by the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, to pay the Philippine government an estimated PHP1 billion ($32.446 million) in bank certificates that were confiscated by the United States Customs Service after Marcos was deposed in 1986. $
2021-09-29

U.S. President Joe Biden announces that Merck & Co. will produce single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine to help his administration goal for vaccinating every adult by the end of May.
2021-03-2

Merck agrees to buy "superbug"-fighter Cubist Pharmaceuticals for $9.5 billion.
2014-12-8

The Indian rupee hits new record low against the US dollar. The rupee fell to 62.03 rupees against the dollar. $
2013-08-16

Chinese meat processing company Shuanghui buys the world's largest meat processing company Smithfield Foods for $4.72 billion. $
2013-05-29

Major European stock markets record falls while the Euro suffers its biggest drop in 2 months against the US dollar. $
2010-11-29

BP sets aside $32.2bn to clean up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. $
2010-07-27