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Retailers already hit by coronavirus board up as U.S. protests rage

Retailers already hit by coronavirus board up as U.S. protests rage

Retail giant Target shuttered stores across the U.S. as retailers already reeling from closures due to the coronavirus pandemic shut stores amid protests that included looting in many U.S. cities on Sunday.



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Amazon's Jeff Bezos invests in UK digital freight forwarder Beacon

Amazon's Jeff Bezos invests in UK digital freight forwarder Beacon

Amazon.com Inc Chief Executive Jeff Bezos has picked British startup Beacon, a digital freight forwarder, for his latest investment.



6 years ago
Embraer negotiating $600 million bank financing for exports

Embraer negotiating $600 million bank financing for exports

Brazilian planemaker Embraer SA , the world's third largest commercial jet builder, should obtain $600 million in credit lines from Brazil's state development bank BNDES and private banks in June, government sources said on Sunday.



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Exclusive: Mexican broadcaster Televisa to launch mobile phone service, challenging Slim

Exclusive: Mexican broadcaster Televisa to launch mobile phone service, challenging Slim

Mexican broadcaster Televisa said on Sunday it will start offering mobile phone service, a bid to challenge billionaire Carlos Slim's America Movil, which has long dominated the country's telecommunications market.



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Russia has no objection to earlier OPEC+ meeting: sources

Russia has no objection to earlier OPEC+ meeting: sources

Russia has no objection to the next meeting of OPEC and its allies, known as OPEC+, being brought forward to June 4 from the following week, three OPEC+ sources familiar with the meeting's preparations told Reuters on Sunday.



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Renault chairman dismisses fears over potential Maubeuge closure

Renault chairman dismisses fears over potential Maubeuge closure

Renault has no plans to close its Maubeuge plant in northern France, Chairman Jean-Dominique Senard said on Sunday, two days after the carmaker announced 15,000 job cuts globally as part of a major restructuring.



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Without the coronavirus pandemic, these jobs probably wouldn't have existed

Without the coronavirus pandemic, these jobs probably wouldn't have existed

As the virus has forced businesses, restaurants, stores and theaters across the country to shut down, a quarter of American workers have filed for unemployment benefits. Yet the public health crisis has also created some new jobs.

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With SpaceX’s first astronaut launch, a new era of human spaceflight has dawned

With SpaceX’s first astronaut launch, a new era of human spaceflight has dawned

Space | Mike Wall | May 30, 2020 Momentum is building in the private sector We've gotten our hopes up before. The success of NASA's Apollo moon missions half a century ago, for example, made Mars seem very much within reach for human explorers. Indeed, the space agency drew up plans to put boots on

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Here's how retirement communities are adapting to a post-Covid 19 world

Here's how retirement communities are adapting to a post-Covid 19 world

Given the outsized risk that the coronavirus poses to older individuals, age-restricted communities — i.e., those for the 55-plus or 60-plus demographic — are retooling how they operate.

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EU trade commissioner Hogan mulling candidacy for WTO chief

EU trade commissioner Hogan mulling candidacy for WTO chief

European trade commissioner Phil Hogan is considering putting his name forward as a candidate to be the next director-general of the World Trade Organization, his spokesman said on Sunday.



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Workers nervously eye return to Lear's coronavirus-hit plant in Mexico

Workers nervously eye return to Lear's coronavirus-hit plant in Mexico

Lear Corp is implementing costly safety measures that may hurt productivity at its operations in Mexico after suffering the deadliest known factory-related coronavirus outbreak in the Americas, but the U.S. auto parts maker still faces a battle to win back workers' trust.



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Amazon removes racist messages after they appear on some product listings

Amazon removes racist messages after they appear on some product listings

Amazon.com Inc said it was removing certain images after messages using extremely strong racist abuse appeared on some listings on its UK website when users searched for Apple's AirPods and other similar products.



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Google postpones Android 11 unveiling amid U.S. protests

Google postpones Android 11 unveiling amid U.S. protests

Alphabet Inc's Google on Saturday said it has postponed next week's planned unveiling of the beta version of its latest Android 11 mobile operating system in light of protests and unrest in the United States.



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Lufthansa accepts tweaked demands by Brussels over state bailout

Lufthansa accepts tweaked demands by Brussels over state bailout

Lufthansa's management board has accepted a more favourable set of demands from the European Commission in exchange for approval of a 9 billion euro ($10 billion) government bailout, the carrier said on Saturday, paving the way for its rescue.



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University of Michigan is taking steps to bring students back on campus this fall

University of Michigan is taking steps to bring students back on campus this fall

The University of Michigan said it is taking steps to bring students back on campus, although going to football games might be harder to imagine.

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