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U.S. senators ask Amazon about employee tracking and union-blocking allegations NATO

U.S. senators ask Amazon about employee tracking and union-blocking allegations

(Reuters) — Four Democratic U.S. senators on Thursday sent a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, demanding answers over its alleged moves to track and monitor employees and limit efforts to form unions. Democratic senators Brian Schatz, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Kirsten Gillibrand asked the company for details on…
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October 16, 2020
Hong Kong stocks post third week of gains on upbeat China data, policy support China's Social Credit System

Hong Kong stocks post third week of gains on upbeat China data, policy support

* HK->Shanghai Connect daily quota used 1%, Shanghai->HK daily quota used 6.6%* HSI +0.9%, HSCE +1.6%, CSI300 -0.2%* FTSE China A50 +0.3%Oct 16 (Reuters) - Hong Kong stocks ended higher on Friday to post their third weekly gain in a row, as investors cheered fresh policy support and upbeat data…
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October 16, 2020
Protests in Thailand are a ‘double whammy’ for the economy, which is reeling from Covid-19 Hongkong

Protests in Thailand are a ‘double whammy’ for the economy, which is reeling from Covid-19

SINGAPORE — Recent protests in Thailand will be a "double whammy" for growth in the country, which has already suffered a blow from the Covid-19 pandemic, analysts say.Furthermore, the protesters will not go away until they see a "new" Thailand, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, a professor at Chulalongkorn University, told CNBC on…
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October 16, 2020
Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell Divided on Stimulus, Teeing Up Potential Clash Donald Trump

Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell Divided on Stimulus, Teeing Up Potential Clash

President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) look set to clash over stimulus as the White House seeks to secure a deal on a further relief package.Trump has expressed his desire to sign off an agreement, while Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin continues talks with House Speaker Nancy…
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October 16, 2020
Albums of the Week: Song To A Refugee, Shiver, Charles Ives Moravec‘s Paradox

Albums of the Week: Song To A Refugee, Shiver, Charles Ives

This week’s three releases include Diana Jones’s beautiful new album, Jónsi’s first full-length solo record in a decade and Gustavo Dudamel’s recordings of Charles Ives’s symphonies with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.Diana Jones: Song To A Refugee The US folk revival that began in the 1940s “had as its figurehead a refugee”,…
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October 16, 2020
Facebook and Twitter’s no-win situation over Biden Times Square

Facebook and Twitter’s no-win situation over Biden

After months of experts’ expecting another hack-and-leak operation in the lead-up to Election Day, a strange story appeared in the New York Post on Wednesday morning. It claimed to maybe reveal emails to Joe Biden’s son Hunter, which could possibly indicate that Hunter introduced his father, then vice president, to a Ukrainian energy executive.  Despite…
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October 16, 2020
Johnson must fold on fishing rights to avoid no-deal Brexit, Macron warns Brexit Negotiator

Johnson must fold on fishing rights to avoid no-deal Brexit, Macron warns

EU leaders led by Emmanuel Macron have “disappointed” UK negotiators by insisting that Boris Johnson must back down in a row over fishing rights in order to get a Brexit deal, Lord David Frost said yesterday. The prime minister’s chief negotiator spoke out after Macron called “Johnson’s bluff on his threat to…
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October 16, 2020