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Pharmacy benefit managers — like CVS Caremark, Optum Rx and Express Scripts — act as middlemen overseeing prescriptions for more than 200 million Americans. They’re meant to reduce drug costs. But instead, they steer patients toward pricier drugs, charge steep markups on otherwise inexpensive medicines and extract billions in hidden fees,

Tsingshan, one of the world's leading nickel producers, has made significant investments in Zimbabwe in recent years. Apart from the steel plant, Tsingshan also has ferrochrome, coking coal and lithium mining businesses in the southern African country. #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press | #PLEBchaiN | #News | #CornyNews…

Armenia officially recognized a Palestinian state on Friday in a move strongly condemned by Israel and welcomed by the Palestinian Authority. #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press | #PLEBchaiN | #News…

Serbia said it could leave the Euro 2024 football championship if its governing body UEFA doesn’t punish Croatia and Albania for anti-Serbian chants during a match. #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press | #PLEBchaiN | #News | #CornyNews…

A Russian-American woman arrested earlier this year while visiting family in Russia went on trial for alleged treason after authorities accused her of raising money to send to the Ukrainian army #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press | #PLEBchaiN | #News…

🔊 Today on Reuters World News • Vietnam’s ‘bamboo diplomacy’ put to test with Putin’s visit • Houthi attacks in Red Sea add to global seafarer shortage • South Africa’s new coalition government faces tricky path #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press | #PLEBchaiN | #News…

Ecuador was plunged into a nationwide blackout on Wednesday afternoon, the country’s public work minister said, blaming the emergency on a failure of a key transmission line. #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press | #PLEBchaiN | #News…

A civil war is ripping apart Sudan. Tens of thousands have been killed, millions displaced and an enormous famine looms, setting off one of the world’s biggest humanitarian crises. The city of El Fasher, home to 1.8 million people, is now at the center of global alarm. The…

A major expansion underway inside Iran’s most heavily protected nuclear facility could soon triple the site’s production of enriched uranium and give Tehran new options for quickly assembling a nuclear arsenal if it chooses to, according to confidential documents and analysis by weapons experts. Inspectors with the International…

Russian President Vladimir Putin is using his first trip to North Korea in nearly 25 years to bring Pyongyang further into his geopolitical embrace. #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press | #PLEBchaiN | #News…

Gordon Black, a 34-year-old U.S. staff sergeant, was detained on May 2 in Russia’s far eastern city of Vladivostok after an argument with his girlfriend, Alexandra Vashchuk, whom he had met while in South Korea. #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press | #PLEBchaiN | #News…

The Biden administration is divided over what to do with $687 million in assets a French company forfeited after pleading guilty to aiding terrorist groups like the Islamic State, according to people familiar with internal deliberations. The administration is considering whether it can or should funnel some of the money…

The Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) has proposed to fund newspaper subscriptions for readers aged 16-30 in a bid “to combat fake news.” #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press | #PLEBchaiN | #News | #CornyNews…