Amazon’s ‘biggest ever’ Prime Day boosts US online sales to $12.7 billion

By Granth Vanaik (Reuters) -U.S. online sales during Amazon.com’s Prime Day shopping event rose 6.1% to $12.7 billion from last year, as inflation-hit Americans hunted for discounts on the e-commerce platform, Adobe Analytics data on Thursday showed. Shoppers spent $6.3 billion on the second day of the big sale as deep discounts on products such…

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Brawl erupts at Kosovo parliament after lawmaker throws water on PM

PRISTINA (Reuters) – Fistfights broke out at the Kosovo parliament and water was thrown on the prime minister after a heated three-day public debate over an audio recording between a ruling party member and an official from the Serb-majority north. Kosovo’s opposition has long accused nationalist Prime Minister Albin Kurti’s handling of tensions in the…

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US FDA reviewing concerns over Logan Paul’s PRIME energy drink

(Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Wednesday it is reviewing concerns raised by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer against a popular influencer-created energy drink. Schumer said earlier this month that PRIME, a beverage brand started last year by YouTube stars Logan Paul and KSI, should be investigated due to the high…

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Factbox-Sudan’s RSF: from Arab militia to force battling the army for power

DUBAI (Reuters) – The U.N. human rights office said on Thursday at least 87 people including women and children had been buried in a mass grave in Sudan’s West Darfur, saying it had credible information they were killed by the country’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF). RSF officials denied any involvement, saying the paramilitary group was…

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Sensodyne toothpaste-maker Haleon planning job cuts – The Guardian

(Reuters) -Haleon, the world’s biggest standalone consumer health business, is planning to cut hundreds of roles in the UK and potentially thousands worldwide, the Guardian reported on Thursday. The company behind the Sensodyne toothpaste and Advil painkillers was spun off from GSK last year and has more than 24,000 staff globally. Staff were informed about…

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Italy’s Meloni draws fire over food aid aimed at families with children

By Federica Urso ROME (Reuters) – A new Italian government scheme to help people with rising food bills is under attack from charities, sociologists and opposition politicians because it limits the type of households that can benefit and the types of food that can be bought. From July 18, Giorgia Meloni’s rightist government will distribute…

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Factbox-Analysts guarded as AI-driven US stock rally faces earnings test

(Reuters) – Analysts are cautiously optimistic as second-quarter reporting season rolls out amid this year’s rally in U.S. stocks fueled by optimism over artificial intelligence (AI) and a resilient U.S. economy. Strategists expect profit at S&P 500 companies to have dropped 6.4% in the second quarter from a year earlier, according to Refinitiv data. Several…

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