Month: January 2020

(Photos: Getty Images) We’re only three days into 2020 and already the world is (literally) burning around us. First, there are the severe bushfires that continue to ravage parts of Australia; and now World War III is trending on Twitter and Google. Jan 1st: New decade going fairly well, all things considered. Jan 2nd: Australia appears to
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FILE PHOTO: The logo of Amazon is seen at the company logistics centre in Boves, France, November 5, 2019. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol BERLIN (Reuters) – Amazon.com (AMZN.O) is considering opening stores in Germany, its second biggest market after the United States, the ecommerce company’s head in the country was quoted as saying on Saturday. “The fact
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While the festive period does have its upsides (admittedly mostly food and booze-related), it also has a tendency to leave us all feeling a little sartorially sapped come 1 January. When you’ve spent the past month flitting between questionable novelty jumpers, cocktail attire and literally anything with an elasticated waistband in the days following Christmas,
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SYDNEY/MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Bushfires were burning dangerously out of control on Australia’s east coast on Saturday, fueled by soaring temperatures and strong winds that had firefighters battling to save lives and property. Heavy smoke shrouds yachts moored at Batemans Bay, New South Wales, Australia January 4, 2020. AAP Image/Dean Lewins/via REUTERS Authorities have said conditions
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SAN DIEGO/BALTIMORE (Reuters) – Federal Reserve policymakers who last year were frequently at odds over where to set U.S. borrowing costs opened 2020 telegraphing confidence in the state of the economy and signaling broad agreement that monetary policy is right where it should be. FILE PHOTO: Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond President Thomas Barkin poses
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