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Massachusetts says states probing TikTok’s effects on young people
(Reuters) - Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey announced on Wednesday a bipartisan, nationwide probe of TikTok, focusing on whether the popular video-sharing app causes physical or mental hea...
Mar 02, 2022
‘Star Trek: Picard’ romantically going where Picard hasn’t gone before
By Rollo Ross LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - After a successful first season, sci-fi drama series "Star Trek: Picard" returns to see its titular hero, played by British actor Patrick Stewart, boldly going wh...
Mar 02, 2022
House oversight panel postpones Big Oil hearing amid Ukraine crisis
By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives oversight panel has postponed its hearing on oil companies' climate change disinformation due to the crisis in Ukraine but has ...
Mar 02, 2022
German carmakers warn fallout from Ukraine invasion on production to get worse
By Ludwig Burger FRANKFURT (Reuters) -German carmakers association VDA said that the fallout from Russia's invasion of Ukraine was disrupting transport routes as well as financial transactions and tha...
Mar 02, 2022
Wintershall Dea stops payments to Russia, writes off $1.1 billion Nord Stream 2 loan
By Christoph Steitz FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German oil and gas firm Wintershall Dea said on Wednesday it would stop payments to Russia and write off its 1 billion euro ($1.1 billion) financing in the No...
Mar 02, 2022
Lebanon’s Bank Audi says UK court order will leave some depositors out of pocket
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Complying with a London court order requiring Lebanon's Bank Audi and SGBL to pay a depositor $4 million of money stuck in the nation's crisis-hit banking sector will result in othe...
Mar 02, 2022
Sweden’s H&M temporarily suspends sales in Russia
By Helena Soderpalm STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Swedish fashion group H&M is temporarily pausing all sales in Russia, it said on Wednesday, joining a growing list of companies shunning the country since it i...
Mar 02, 2022
Canada’s low-cost carrier WestJet to buy rival Sunwing Airlines
(Reuters) - Canadian airline WestJet Group, owned by private equity firm Onex Corp, said on Wednesday it would buy leisure rival Sunwing Airlines for an undisclosed amount as it looks to tap into a re...
Mar 02, 2022
U.S. lawmakers push Treasury to ensure Russia cannot use cryptocurrency to avoid sanctions
By Hannah Lang (Reuters) - Senator Elizabeth Warren and three other Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday urged the Treasury Department to ensure the cryptocurrency industry is complying with sanctions im...
Mar 02, 2022
Russian banking liquidity shortage widens to 7 trillion roubles, central bank says
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Russian banking system's liquidity shortage widened to 6.9 trillion roubles ($68.25 billion) on Wednesday, the central bank said, up from 5.4 trillion roubles a day before as pe...
Mar 02, 2022
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