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Australia to force Google and Facebook to pay news publishers

Facebook and Google logos Peter Foley / Bloomberg | fake pictures Google and Facebook may be forced to pay Australian news publishers to distribute their content, in a landmark regulatory move by the country’s competition regulator. Australia’s Competition and Consumer Commission was tasked with the government earlier this year to …

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euro area earnings and GDP in focus

European stocks traded higher on Friday morning as investors monitored corporate earnings and economic data in the last trading session of the month. The pan-European Stoxx 600 Index rose 0.35% with tech and bank stocks leading the way. BNP Paribas reported a decrease in net income of around 7% for …

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Obama warns that Trump’s actions threaten American democracy

But Thursday’s extraordinary speeches by two presidents, whose legacies will be intertwined forever, suddenly underlined how this election, in the words of the quadrennial cliche, will truly be the most important of our lives. Obama’s praise was not just his most public intervention in the 2020 campaign or his most …

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