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Crude refusal: China shuns US oil despite trade war truce

China, the world's top oil importer, is set to start 2019 buying little or no crude from the United States despite a three-month truce in a trade scrap between the two nations, with relatively high freight costs and political uncertainty choking demand. Dec 21, 2018
Deadly viral diseases

Protein to combat Ebola discovered in humans

In the study, the team from Northwestern University used mass spectrometry -- a technique that identifies specific elements in a sample by mass -- to search for interactions between human proteins and Ebola virus proteins. Dec 15, 2018
wall street

Global stocks extend slump as global growth worries mount

Traders returned from the weekend to face a growing wall of worry, with the world's largest economies — the United States, China and Japan — all reporting weaker-than-expected data which pointed to moderating activity. Dec 10, 2018