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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Four more states have joined a lawsuit filed by Texas and others against Alphabet Inc s Google that accuses it of breaking antitrust laws to boost its already dominant advertising business, the Texas attorney general said on Tuesday.
Joining the lawsuit filed in December are Alaska, Florida, Montana, Nevada and Puerto Rico, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said. This brings the number of plaintiffs in the lawsuit to 15 states and territories.
The lawsuit was one of three filed last year by the federal government or states against Google.
In announcing Tuesday s amended complaint, Paxton and the other attorneys general also divulged details about Google s relationship with Facebook Inc.
Global health experts came under increasing pressure on Tuesday to clear up questions over the safety of AstraZeneca s COVID-19 shot, as Sweden and Latvia joined countries suspending their use in. | March 18, 2021
By Bojan Pancevski and Jenny Strasburg BERLIN Germany, France and Italy joined a group of smaller European countries that have temporarily stopped administering Covid-19 vaccines made by AstraZeneca PLC, saying the move was precautionary amid a small number of cases of blood clotting reported on the continent. Denmark last week said it had paused AstraZeneca shots for two weeks following reports of blood clotting, and several other European countries quickly followed suit, saying they were doing so out of an abundance of caution. Norway, Ireland and the Netherlands are among countries that have paused vaccinating with AstraZeneca s shot. Health regulators in the U.K. and Europe, along with AstraZeneca and its vaccine development partners at the University of Oxford, say there is no known connection between severe clotting and the shot. AstraZeneca has said the number of cases of blood clotting among the roughly 17 million people in the European Union and U.K. w
Congress state General Secretary Diganta Chaudhury on Sunday said that two community-based parties - the Jimochayan (Deori) People s Party (JDPP) and the Adivasi National Party (ANP) joined the grand alliance. The Congress, which was in power in the state for 15 years from 2001 until it was unseated by the BJP-led alliance in 2016, has formed a Mahagathbandhan or Mahajot with three Left parties - the CPI-M, the CPI and the CPI-ML as well as the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF), the Anchalik Gana Morcha (AGM), the Bodoland People s Front (BPF) and the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD).The
Congress state General Secretary Diganta Chaudhury on Sunday said that two community-based parties - the Jimochayan (Deori) People s Party (JDPP) and the Adivasi National Party (ANP) joined the grand alliance. The Congress, which was in power in the state for 15 years from 2001 until it was unseated by the BJP-led alliance in 2016, has formed a Mahagathbandhan or Mahajot with three Left parties - the CPI-M, the CPI and the CPI-ML as well as the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF), the Anchalik Gana Morcha (AGM), the Bodoland People s Front (BPF) and the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD).The