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Butchers of G Lawrence Wholesale Meats during the Smithfield Market Christmas meat auction in the market’s Grand Avenue, in the City of London, as traders auction off their surplus meats to the public in a tradition that spans back a century. Picture date: Saturday December 23, 2023. (Photo by Jordan Pettitt/PA Images via Getty Images)

End of an era: Historic 900-year-old London meat market faces the chop by 2028

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Nikhil Rathi, chief executive officer of the Financial Conduct Authority, ahead of a Bloomberg Television interview in London, U.K., on Thursday, April 7, 2022. The Financial Conduct Authority set out a three-year strategy Thursday that will see it move faster to protect consumers from financial harm and create targets to oversee the U.K.s financial markets more assertively and efficiently. Photographer: Hollie Adams/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Amid bitcoin boom Britain’s FCA scrambles to assemble regulation roadmap by 2026

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EasyJet Airbus A320 passenger aircraft spotted flying on final approach for landing at the runway of Athens International Airport ATH at the Greek capital. The A320 airplane of easyJet Europe has the registration tail number OE-IJW, is powered by 2x CFMI jet engines and is painted in Malaga livery special colours. EasyJet is a British multinational low-cost airline carrier group with headquarters in London while EasyJet Europe Airline GmbH is a subsidiary, a European budget airline based in Vienna, Austria. The airline group operates an all Airbus A320 family fleet including the NEO planes. Athens, Greece on July 2024 (Photo by Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

EasyJet soars with 40% profit boost fueled by summer holiday demand

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Gautam Adani, chairman of Adani Group, during a Bloomberg Television interview at the company’s headquarters in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, on Saturday, May 25, 2024. Gautam Adani says he’ll shift control to his scions in the early 2030s. Photographer: Sumit Dayal/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The Adani Group has lost $55 billion in market value since last week’s shock indictment of billionaire founder

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WASHINGTON, DC – NOVEMBER 13: U.S. President-elect Donald Trump speaks at a House Republicans Conference meeting at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill on November 13, 2024 in Washington, DC. As is tradition with incoming presidents, Trump is traveling to Washington, DC to meet with U.S. President Joe Biden at the White House as well as Republican members of Congress on Capitol Hill. (Photo by Allison Robbert-Pool/Getty Images)

EU seeks tariff countermeasures as Spanish olive duties hint at looming U.S. trade war

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Plaintiff Nick Infinger speaks to the media about the latest ruling on same-sex couples outside the Court of Final Appeal in Hong Kong on November 26, 2024. Hong Kong’s top court ruled on November 26 to affirm housing and inheritance entitlements for same-sex couples, siding against the government in favour of LGBTQ rights protection. The ruling marked the end of a six-year legal battle that began when resident Nick Infinger took the government to court over a policy that excluded him and his partner from public rental housing on the grounds they were not an “ordinary family”. (Photo by Peter PARKS / AFP) (Photo by PETER PARKS/AFP via Getty Images)

Hong Kong same-sex couples win housing and inheritance rights

By Holmes Chan and AFP

TOPSHOT – Vietnamese property tycoon Truong My Lan (C) looks on at a court in Ho Chi Minh city on April 11, 2024. A top Vietnamese property tycoon could face the death penalty when she and dozens of other co-accused face verdicts on April 11 in one of the country’s biggest fraud cases over the embezzlement of USD 12.5 billion. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)

Vietnam property tycoon sentenced to death for $27B fraud begs court to spare her life, saying she is trying to repay funds

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Young Asian woman carrying a shopping basket, grocery shopping in supermarket. She is looking at products on the shelf, choosing what she should buy. Routine grocery shopping. Making better and healthier food choices. Consumer awareness concept

Shoppers are ‘fooled’ by maze of misleading food labels during their grocery runs, European auditors warn

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The world’s largest steelmaker ArcelorMittal CEO Aditya Mittal speaks during an academic session at the Ghent city hall on September 28, 2021, following the signing of a letter of intent with the Governments of Belgium and Flanders, supporting a 1,1 billion euro project to build a 2,5 million-tonne direct reduced iron (DRI) plant at its site in Gent, as well as two new electric furnaces. (Photo by John THYS / AFP) (Photo by JOHN THYS/AFP via Getty Images)

Europe’s largest steelmaker ArcelorMittal to close two plants in France as it struggles with economic headwinds

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HANGZHOU, CHINA – NOVEMBER 26, 2024 – Customers experience the newly released Mate70 series mobile phone at a Huawei store in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, Nov 26, 2024. (Photo credit should read CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

Huawei debuts ‘long-awaited’ new smartphone, complete with a homegrown chip and OS

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ANKARA, TURKIYE – OCTOBER 29: A woman splits a bar of Dubai chocolate, a viral chocolate filled with pistachio cream and crunchy kataifi pastry, in Ankara, Turkiye on October 29, 2024. (Photo by Omer Taha Cetin/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Europe goes nuts for viral Dubai chocolate. With bars priced over €100, chocolate smuggling spreads across the continent

By Raphaelle Logerot, Julien Sengel, and others

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM – NOVEMBER 7: CD Commissioner for Climate, Net Zero and Clean Growth Wopke Bastiaan Hoekstra attends a hearing in the European Parliament on November 7, 2024 in Brussels, Belgium. Commissioners-designate appear in public hearings at the European Parliament. After that, the Commission as a whole is approved in a single vote of consent by the Parliament. (Photo by Thierry Monasse/Getty Images)

UN climate talks end with $300 billion annual pledge. Here are the main takeaways

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BAKU, AZERBAIJAN – NOVEMBER 12: World leaders and delegates pose for a family photo on day two of the UNFCCC COP29 Climate Conference at Baku Stadium on November 12, 2024 in Baku, Azerbaijan. The COP29, which is running from November 11 through 22, is bringing together stakeholders, including international heads of state and other leaders, scientists, environmentalists, indigenous peoples representatives, activists and others to discuss and agree on the implementation of global measures towards mitigating the effects of climate change. According to the United Nations, countries made no progress over the last year in reducing global emissions from the burning of fossil fuels. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Wealthy polluters to pay $300 billion a year after bitter negotiations at COP29

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Northvolt’s CEO and co-founder Peter Carlsson announces his resignation during a press conference in Stockholm on November 22, 2024. This decision follows the company’s recent filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States. (Photo by Christine OLSSON / TT News Agency / AFP) / Sweden OUT (Photo by CHRISTINE OLSSON/TT News Agency/AFP via Getty Images)

Swedish battery champion Northvolt facing financial meltdown as CEO resigns

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The Harper Collins book trade stand during the third and final day of the London Book Fair at the Olympia Exhibition Hall, on 14th March 2024, in London, England. The three-day international London Book Fair (LBF) is an annual publishing industry expo and Europe’s largest spring book fair that typically attracts 25,000 visitors; exhibitors from across the publishing sector; authors hoping for their book ideas to be commissioned and where international publication rights deals are made for foreign editions. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)

HarperCollins strikes AI training deal with unnamed company amid rising copyright tensions between publishers and AI firms

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