South Africa locks horns with rich nations over bid to waive COVID vaccine patents Reuters > By Reuters - 10 March 2021 - 19:02 World Trade Organisation head Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Image: REUTERS/Emma Farge/File Photo
GENEVA - A push to increase production of COVID-19 vaccines for poor nations hung in the balance at the World Trade Organization on Wednesday amid disagreement between richer and developing countries over the issue of patent rights.
South Africa and India planned to renew their bid at a two-day meeting to waive rules of the WTO s Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS) agreement, a move that would allow generic or other manufacturers to make more vaccines.
Banks High School building set to be demolished in July The old Banks High School in East Lake is set to be demolished in July. (Source: WBRC) By WBRC Staff | March 10, 2021 at 11:11 AM CST - Updated March 10 at 11:13 AM
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - The Birmingham City Council has approved a bid for the removal of hazardous material and demolition of the former Banks High School building in the East Lake community.
The bid, in the amount of $397,700, from South East Demolition and Environmental Services in Montgomery was approved Tuesday.
Over the last few years, we have sent out multiple Requests for Proposals (RFPs) with the intention of attracting private developers to renovate and repurpose the blighted building,” Councilor Hunter Williams said. “My office also partnered with Auburn Urban Design Studios to work on design plans to save the building and entice potential developers. These efforts have not yielded any offers from developers and the City will be keeping i
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When Ford came out with the GT500 variant of the fifth-generation Mustang back in 2007, the press mostly gave it a big thumbs-up. There were also those who found it heavy and not particularly agile through the twisty bits. Looking back, they weren’t wrong in voicing those concerns. 53 photos
It didn’t take Ford long to address those “issues,” the solution being the Shelby GT500KR, which arrived only a year after the regular GT500’s debut. Named after the original 1968 Shelby Cobra GT500KR, where KR stood for “King of the Road,” this newer model featured various performance enhancements over the standard GT500, including an extra 40 hp and 30 lb-ft (40 nm) of torque.
WASHINGTON (dpa-AFX) - An unusually closely watched auction of $38 billion worth of ten-year notes attracted roughly average demand, the Treasury Department revealed on Wednesday.The ten-year
He Owns World Famous Stamps and a Prized Coin. Now Heâs Selling.
Stuart Weitzman, who made his fortune in shoes, is parting with three of his collecting triumphs, including a block of four âInverted Jennies.â
This block of four extremely rare “Inverted Jennies” was created more than a century ago by a printing error that left the image of the plane upside down. It is to be sold at auction in New York in June.Credit.via Sotheby’s
March 10, 2021
On the day in 1918 when the Postal Service began selling stamps with an image of a newfangled airplane, a 29-year-old stockbrokerâs clerk and stamp collector went out on his lunch hour to buy some. He emerged from the nearest post office with a single sheet of 100.