Thai retail giant Central Group is teaming up with Austrian property firm Signa to buy British luxury department store chain Selfridges, the companies said Friday. In July Canada’s Weston family put up the British department store chain for sale with a ?4.0 billion ($5.5 billion, 4.7 billion euros) asking price, according to media reports. Central …
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World stock markets wavered Friday in subdued Christmas Eve trade as investors mulled receding Omicron coronavirus fears, with European bourses wrapping up early before the long holiday weekend. Asian equities mostly rose in thin volumes after Wall Street finished its trading week Thursday with strong gains on solid economic data. The London and Paris stock …
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Cuban security forces encircled the home of a leading dissident Sunday ahead of planned anti-government rallies, as Washington slammed Havana’s “intimidation tactics” and called for a ban on the demonstrations to be lifted. “We call on the Cuban government to respect Cubans’ rights, by allowing them to peacefully assemble and use their voices without fear …
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December 28, 2020 By Lidia Kelly MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Sydney, one of the world’s first major cities to welcome each New Year with a public countdown featuring a fireworks display over its well-known Opera House, has banned large gatherings that night amid an outbreak of the coronavirus. A mid-December resurgence of COVID-19 in the city’s …
FILE PHOTO: Medical workers administer tests at the Bondi Beach drive-through coronavirus disease (COVID-19) testing centre in the wake of an outbreak in Sydney, Australia, December 22, 2020. REUTERS/Loren Elliott/File Photo December 27, 2020 By Lidia Kelly MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Sydney’s COVID-19 outbreak continued on Sunday with more than a quarter million people in lockdown …
Michelle Lopez, 24, sits with her luggage at the airport in Norfolk, Va., on Tuesday Dec. 22, 2020. Lopez flew in from Houston to visit her boyfriend who serves in the U.S. Navy. (AP photo/ Ben Finley) OAN NewsroomUPDATED 7:05 PM PT – Friday, December 25, 2020 As people packed the airports during Christmas time, …
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order that closes all federal agencies and departments for their employees on Christmas Eve. “The heads of executive departments and agencies may determine that certain offices and installations of their organizations, or parts thereof, must remain open and that certain employees must report for duty on Dec. 24, 2020, …
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