Sembcorp Marine was contending with COVID-era disruptions and a legal hangover from corruption investigations in Brazil; Keppel, meanwhile, had decided to reinvent itself as an asset manager and was eager to shed its manufacturing business.
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Nicholas Gordon,
Fortune,
23 Apr. 2026
The division in the first quarter lost 322,000 video customers, compared to 245,000 video customers shed during the fourth quarter, and Comcast lost another 65,000 domestic broadband subscribers.
Perhaps this view explains his decision to forsake previous rounds of talks over Iran’s nuclear program and wage a full-scale assault on the country.
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Arash Azizi,
The Atlantic,
9 Apr. 2026
If bigger and better opportunities come along, striking while the iron is hot is a logical course of action, even when moves sometimes appear to make more sense for financial reasons than footballing ones and forsaking the comfort of operating in a stable environment.
If the Eagles don’t fully abandon that style, Campbell could fit in nicely.
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Brooks Kubena,
New York Times,
25 Apr. 2026
Just a few years later, in the fall of 2019, mountaineer Garrett Madison abandoned an Everest expedition due to another serac causing unsafe conditions in the Khumbu Icefall.
Idle oil wells cleanup Senate Bill 47 raises the cap on how much money from the Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Administrative Fund can be spent to plug and cleanup deserted oil wells, according to the California State Senate website.
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Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado
April 22,
Sacbee.com,
22 Apr. 2026
There are 15 overall child care deserts out of 74 ZIP codes in Tarrant, and 40% of those deserts are considered to be chronic.
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Lina Ruiz
April 16,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
16 Apr. 2026
That feeling contributed to the dynamics around Swalwell and Gonzales, who resigned on the same day last week in the face of rising bipartisan support to expel them.
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Jared Gans,
The Hill,
21 Apr. 2026
Starmer has already defused one potential crisis in February, when some Labour lawmakers urged him to resign over the Mandelson appointment.
Philip Fong | Afp | Getty Images Japan renounced war under Article 9 of its post-World War II pacifist constitution.
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Sam Meredith,Lim Hui Jie,
CNBC,
21 Apr. 2026
Miami will have the ability to use multiple sizable salary cap exceptions if Wiggins opts out or if Wiggins stays but Miami renounces Powell, which remove his cap hold and eliminate his Bird rights.
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