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Uber Threatens To Cease Operations In Quebec Over New Regulations
Ride-hailing service Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] said on Tuesday it will stop operating in the Canadian province of Quebec next month, pulling out to avoid following tough new regulations announced last week. "We can negotiate with them, but not on the basis of those two things", Gaudreault said. Under the new rules, Uber driver background checks must be conducted by the police and no longer by private companies.
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Unilever to buy Korean cosmetics firm for $2.7b
Political tensions between Korea and China, however, have had an adverse effect on some Korean brands - retailer Lotte, for example, has announced it will sell a number of its Chinese stores with the possibility of withdrawing from the country completely - and analysts appear divided on how this will play out in the beauty sector.
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Uber to make concessions in an attempt to reverse ban in London
Meanwhile Reuters reports that key Uber rival Lyft could well be on their way into Britain: " Lyft , Uber's closest USA rival in the taxi-hailing business, met repeatedly with officials from London's transport regulator over the past year, a sign it may be targeting the city for worldwide expansion", it reported.
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Labour pledges to bring school PFI contracts 'in-house'
Such proposals will no doubt go down well with some voters, however the defining political issue of our time - Brexit - is the one that is arguably the most problematic for Labour given the sharp differences of opinion that exist between the leadership and some of the party's high-profile MPs.
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NFL Ratings Down Nationally in Wake of Protests, But Up Locally
After a great lineup of Week 3 games in the National Football League season, the main event will come on Monday night when the Dallas Cowboys travel to play the Arizona Cardinals in a big primetime matchup on ESPN . Almost every Oakland Raider sat on the bench as the national anthem played. Together, the pregame shows on CBS and Fox saw a 19 percent increase compared to previous year.
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Target sets goal of $15 minimum wage by 2020
Cornell said the retailer takes a market-by-market approach to evaluating and adjusting pay for its front-line workers, adding that all Target employees earn above the federal minimum wage of $7.25. Until today, that was the Target's last major wage increase. Additionally, Costco COST , Amazon AMZN -owned Whole Foods, Swedish giant Ikea, and even apparel retailer Gap Inc.