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TikTok and WeChat: US to ban app downloads in 48 hours
TikTok and WeChat will be banned from US app stores from Sunday, unless President Donald Trump agrees to a last-minute deal.The Department of Commerce said it would bar people in the US from downloading the messaging and video-sharing apps!-->…
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Lego to ditch plastic bags after children call for change
Lego will start replacing plastic packaging with paper bags from 2021 as the toy brick maker aims to become more sustainable.
Lego said it had been prompted by letters from children asking it to remove the single-use plastic bags.
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Eat Out to Help Out drives UK inflation to five-year low
The UK's inflation rate fell sharply to a five-year low of 0.2% in August as the effect of the Eat Out to Help Out scheme pushed down restaurant prices.
July's Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation figure had been 1%.
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Singapore becomes hub for Chinese tech amid US tensions
Some of China's biggest technology firms are expanding operations in Singapore as tensions rise between Washington and Beijing.
Tencent and Alibaba are increasing their presence in the city state while TikTok owner ByteDance is reported!-->!-->!-->…
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Coronavirus: Tui to clear refund backlog by end of September
Travel company Tui has promised to clear a backlog of refunds by the end of the month following an investigation by the UK's competition authority.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) had received thousands of complaints from!-->!-->!-->…
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Thomas Cook: ‘I wish the business well’
Former flight attendant Grace Fletcher says she and some former colleagues would do anything to get back into aviation.
She loves her current job, helping vulnerable children in the prison service, but would also do anything to "reverse!-->!-->!-->…
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Coronavirus: Could UK adopt German pay top-up scheme?
Unlike the UK, the Germans didn't have to invent a job support programme from scratch when the pandemic struck: they already had one oven-ready.
While British companies were getting to grips with the novelty of furloughing workers at!-->!-->!-->…
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Small firms thrown lifeline in insurance test case ruling
Small businesses have been thrown a lifeline after the High Court ruled some insurers should have paid out for losses caused by lockdown.
Judges ruled that the disease clauses in some business interruption policies should have meant!-->!-->!-->…
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Asia sees first regional recession in 60 years
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) says the Covid-19 pandemic has pulled the region's developing economies into recession.
It is the first time in six decades that "developing Asia" - a designation that includes 45 countries - has seen a!-->!-->!-->…
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Women lose state pension age appeal against government
Two women affected by controversial changes to the state pension age have lost their Court of Appeal challenge.
Julie Delve, 62, and Karen Glynn, 63, backed by campaign group BackTo60, challenged the changes after losing a High Court!-->!-->!-->…
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