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Ed Sheeran’s promoter has said Google must do more to stop secondary ticket sales for the singer’s gigs. Stuart Galbraith called for the change after Google adverts pointed fans towards secondary site Viagogo, where tickets for Ed Sheeran’s tour were

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The German industrial giant Siemens says at least two gas turbines it has supplied to a Russian company have been illegally diverted to Crimea.The firm said the turbines had been moved “against its will” and in breach of EU sanctions imposed after

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Investors dumped shares of Abercrombie & Fitch on Monday after the Ohio clothes retailer said it had broken off talks with potential buyers.The firm, which once drew teen shoppers with ads featuring scantily-clad models, has struggled more recently with falling

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BMW workers in the UK have accepted a revised offer over the closure of their final salary pension scheme, ending the threat of further strikes.The agreement follows a series of stoppages at plants making the Mini and Rolls Royce cars.More than 80% of members of the

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The drug industry is going to court to challenge the authority of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice).The public body authorises spending by the NHS on expensive new treatments.In March it announced a new policy to hold back spending on new

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UK government arms sales to Saudi Arabia are lawful, the High Court has ruled, after seeing secret evidence.The court rejected campaigners’ claims ministers were acting illegally by not suspending weapon sales to the kingdom, which is fighting a war in Yemen.The

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Shares in the infrastructure and construction firm Carillion are down 38% in early trading in the wake of a sales warning. The company has warned that its annual results would be “below management’s previous expectations”.The company said it would

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UK shoppers are “completely in the dark” about the effect Brexit will have on their weekly shop, a former Sainsbury’s boss has told BBC Panorama.Justin King, who ran the supermarket for a decade, said the “last thing” any current

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Tobacco giant Philip Morris has been ordered to pay the Australian government millions of dollars after unsuccessfully suing the nation over its world-first plain-packaging laws. In 2012, Australia legislated that cigarettes must be sold in unappealing packets with

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