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Suzanne Kreiter | The Boston Globe | Getty Images Employees at Biogen in Cambridge, Mass. Biogen said on Monday it will buy Nightstar Therapeutics for about $800 million in cash as the company looks to tap into a potentially lucrative gene therapy market. Biogen’s offer of $25.50 per share, represents …

Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images US President Donald Trump boards Air Force One prior to departure from Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, February 25, 2019, as he travels to Hanoi, Vietnam for a second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. President Donald Trump unleashed another Twitter …

Lluis Gene | AFP | Getty Images Vodafone Chief Executive Officer Nick Read speaks at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona on February 25, 2019. The CEO of the world’s second-largest mobile operator warned excluding Huawei from Europe’s 5G networks could be “hugely disruptive” to national infrastructure and consumers, …

Ahmad Al-Rubaye | AFP | Getty Images Members of the Shiite Mehdi army militia carry Lebanese Hezbollah flags as they rally in Baghdad’s neighborhood of Sadr City in 2006. Britain said on Monday it would ban Hezbollah, adding the Lebanese Shi’ite group in its entirety to its list of banned …

Paul Hackett | Getty Images Pedestrians walk past the Bank of England in the City of London, Britain June 28, 2016. Britain and the United States said on Monday that their regulators are taking every step needed to ensure that trillions of dollars in derivatives contracts traded across the Atlantic …

Antoine Antoniol | Bloomberg | Getty Images Societe Generale SA headquarters stand in Paris, France French bank Societe Generale is planning to cut thousands of jobs at its global banking and investor solutions unit, as it looks to offset cost pressure from regulation, Bloomberg reported on Friday, citing people familiar …

REUTERS | Marco Bello TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido, who many nations have recognized as the country’s rightful interim ruler, reacts during a meeting with volunteers to coordinate humanitarian aid in Caracas, Venezuela February 16, 2019. Venezuela’s opposition lawmakers are forging ahead with plans to …

Franziska Krug | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images Karl Lagerfeld attends the ‘Corsa Karl Und Choupette’ Vernissage on February 03, 2015 Karl Lagerfeld’s cat Choupette is reportedly set to inherit some of the Chanel designer’s estimated $195 million fortune. Chanel confirmed on Tuesday that Lagerfeld, who had been the …

Chesnot | Getty Images Facebook’s founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks to participants during the Viva Technologie show at Parc des Expositions Porte de Versailles on May 24, 2018 in Paris, France. Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg is meeting with a British official Thursday to discuss internet regulation and fake …

Sean Gallup | Getty Images News | Getty Images British Prime Minister Theresa May departs after speaking at a press conference after attending a special session of the European Council over Brexit on November 25, 2018 in Brussels, Belgium. Three U.K. lawmakers from Britain’s ruling Conservative Party have quit to …