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1 week, 5 days ago

"Willful breach": Albertsons hits Kroger with massive lawsuit as merger sours

Salon

The largest proposed merger in the history of American supermarkets came to an abrupt end this week after Albertsons terminated its $25 billion merger agreement with Kroger one day after a federal judge’s ruling blocked the deal. Albertsons responded to the ruling by immediately ending the merger agreement and filing a lawsuit against Kroger in the Delaware Court of Chancery …

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3 months, 1 week ago

Iconic Candy is bringing back the good old ‘Altoids Sours’ days. Here's all you need to know

Hindustan Times

On August 30, Iconic Candy, an American candy giant known for reviving nostalgic treats, announced the launch of a new candy called Retro Sours. Iconic Candy's new line is set to revive Altoids Sours' nostalgic flavours Retro Sours are currently being sold at IT’SUGAR stores and will soon be available at Cracker Barrel locations within the next month. “The Retro …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Japan Inc. Sours on China After Long Years of Brushing Off Risks

Live Mint

Japanese companies are increasingly abandoning an approach to business in China that once seemed immune to politics, a stark shift after years when they were the biggest single investors in their neighbor’s economy. It’s a turnaround for Japanese companies that had built up an FDI stock of almost $130 billion in China through the end of last year. China took …

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4 months ago

US Man Wins Rs 42 Lakh Using License Plate Of Late Dog In Lottery

News 18

There is definitely an allure to winning a lottery prize. Your odds of ever being hit by lightning are nearly 20,000 times higher than your chances of ever winning the Mega Millions jackpot, according to statistics from the National Weather Service. In a Pick 5 lottery drawing, an Ohio man won $50,000 by using the license plate numbers of his …

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5 months ago

U.S. public rapidly sours on Project 2025 as awareness grows

Raw Story

New polling out on Tuesday suggests that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's best hope for Project 2025, the far-right policy agenda that at least 140 of his former administration officials helped craft, was that most Americans would remain unfamiliar with it. Overall, said Navigator, "the recent upsurge in conversations and news coverage about the plan" since June has resulted in …

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10 months, 2 weeks ago

Four parties hold rescue talks as mood sours over farm protests

Dutch News

The four parties trying to form a new Dutch government are holding a second day of informal meetings as they battle to meet next week’s deadline to deliver a progress report to parliament. Pieter Omtzigt, leader of Nieuw Sociaal Contract, criticised famers’ party leader Caroline van der Plas for not condemning a video posted by Mark van den Oever, leader …

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1 year ago

Palestinians struggle as a brutal war sours business. Just ask West Bank sweets makers

LA Times

What Sacher torte is to Vienna, or kouign-amann to Brittany, or cannoli to Sicily, knafeh Nabulseyeh is to Nablus. “With all that’s happening in Gaza, people just aren’t coming.” The slump in Al Aqsa Sweets’ business reflects the economic malaise gripping the Palestinian economy as the West Bank reels from an intensified Israeli security campaign in the wake of Hamas’ …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Israelis overwhelmingly are confident in the justice of the Gaza war, even as world sentiment sours

Associated Press

JERUSALEM — At a time when world sentiment has begun to sour on Israel’s devastating offensive in Gaza, the vast majority of Israelis, across the political spectrum, are convinced of the justice of the war. They have rallied to crush Hamas, which breached the country’s borders from the Gaza Strip, killing more than 1,400 people and taking over 240 hostage …

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1 year, 5 months ago

FIFA Women’s World Cup: Switzerland sours Philippines’ debut with 2-0 win

The Hindu

Switzerland made a winning start to its FIFA Women’s World Cup campaign with a 2-0 victory over debutants Philippines at Dunedin Stadium on Friday, thanks to Ramona Bachmann’s first-half penalty and a close-range effort from Seraina Piubel. Inka Grings’ side was awarded a penalty by VAR after midfielder Coumba Sow was caught by a stray boot from Jessika Cowart in …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Germany moves toward restrictions on Huawei, as Europe sours on China

NPR

Germany moves toward restrictions on Huawei, as Europe sours on China Enlarge this image toggle caption Mark Schiefelbein/AP Mark Schiefelbein/AP BERLIN — Germany's government said Tuesday it is carrying out a review of tech suppliers such as China's Huawei and ZTE, whose equipment is used in Germany's 5G networks. Mao urged Prague to "take immediate and effective measures to correct …

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2 years, 7 months ago

Once bound by trade, China-EU honeymoon sours over Ukraine war

Al Jazeera

China’s support for Russia has forced the bloc to reassess a bilateral relationship that has long been centred on economics. “It has to be China.” Instead, China abstained in a UN vote to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and denounced a “cold war mentality based on bloc confrontation,” a jab at NATO. “During the EU-China Summit, China was reluctant to …

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3 years, 2 months ago

Congress-Prashant Kishor relationship sours

The Hindu

The Congress and election strategist Prashant Kishor’s public sparring over the grand old party’s prospects of political revival triggered a war of words between Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel and the Trinamool Congress. Priyanka’s arrest Though he didn’t name any leader in his tweet, the obvious reference is to the buzz that Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s arrest in …

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4 years, 4 months ago

Warren Buffett sours on banks and likes gold