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Credit Suisse banking on restructure revamp
Credit Suisse banking on restructure revamp
by  AFP

New Credit Suisse chief executive Ulrich Koerner, faced with trying to turn around the beleaguered bank following multiple scandals, is set to unveil his strategic road map on Thursday. Credit Suisse already went through a major restructuring under Tidjane Thiam, its chief executive from 2015 to early 2020.

Activists see red over Iceland's blood mares
Activists see red over Iceland's blood mares
by  AFP

On an autumn day on a lush green prairie, more than a dozen pregnant mares are waiting to be bled for the last time this year. At farms like this one, several litres of blood are collected from each horse in order to extract the PMSG hormone (Pregnant mare serum gonadotropin), also known as eCG, produced naturally by pregnant mares.

Black South Africans break into once white-only wine industry
Black South Africans break into once white-only wine industry
by  AFP

Winemaking was a profession most South African parents could never have envisioned for their children. South Africa was still under the racially segregated apartheid regime when Stevens made her first attempt to study winemaking in 1991.

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