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IN BRIEF

Asia Europe

○ “India is ○ The Presidents Club ○ French pharmaceutical
Charitable Trust dissolved
conglomerate Sanofi
after a blistering Financial agreed to buy Bioverativ,
removing the red Times report detailed which specializes in a
numerous incidents of
hemophilia drug, for
harassment and groping
tape and laying out at its annual dinner, held $11.6b
in mid-January.

the red carpet.”

Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Prime Minister Narendra Modi
promised India would become a $5 trillion economy by 2025.
○ Turkish soldiers
streamed into Northern
Syria, attacking Kurdish
forces backed by the
U.S. Having encouraged
8 the Kurds to help defeat
Islamic State, U.S.
diplomats urged Turkey to
stand down.

ROCKET: COURTESY ROCKET LAB. MACRON: THIBAULT CAMUS/AP PHOTO. STALEY: FACUNDO ARRIZABALAGA/EPA-EFE/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK.

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○ French President Emmanuel Macron wooed about 140 Davos-bound tech
executives at the Palace of Versailles. The guest list at the opulent economic-
development event, dubbed “Choose France,” included Facebook Chief Operating
Officer Sheryl Sandberg and SAP Chief Executive Officer Bill McDermott.

○ Vietnam ○ The terrorists ○ Formula One
sentenced Trinh behind the August champion Niki Lauda
rescued Niki Luftfahrt,
Xuan Thanh, an 2017 van attack a Vienna-based
executive at its in Barcelona may discount airline named
state-owned have been planning after him. The collapse
of its parent company,
oil company, to a bombing at Air Berlin, had left
life in prison for the Eiffel Tower, the carrier insolvent.
corruption. according to a
report by Spanish
researchers.
○ Rocket Lab, a New Zealand-based
startup, launched … literally. The
company’s Electron rocket slung into
orbit three small satellites, which His trial was part of a crackdown that
would otherwise have had to hitch meted out long prison terms to several
rides on larger rockets. senior company officials.