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Former French president Sarkozy joins AccorHotels’ board | Reuters

PARIS Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been appointed as a director of AccorHotels (ACCP.PA) and will chair its newly created international strategy committee, Europe's largest hotels group said on Tuesday.Sarkozy, who led France for five years from 2007, lost his bid for another presidential term in November after coming third in the primaries of his center-right party.At AccorHotels the 62-year-old replaces Nadra Moussalem, the head of private equity firm Colony Europe which sold... Читать дальше...

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Global investors warn Texas to withdraw transgender restroom legislation | Reuters

By Jon Herskovitz | AUSTIN, Texas AUSTIN, Texas A group of global investors with $11 trillion in managed assets told Texas on Tuesday not to enact legislation restricting access to bathrooms for transgender people, saying it is discriminatory and bad for business.The "Texas Privacy Act," or Senate Bill 6, has been marked as a priority for Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, a Republican and conservative Christian who guides the legislative agenda in the Republican-controlled state Senate. He said... Читать дальше...

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Peugeot maker PSA says will honour existing Opel job guarantees | Reuters

By Edward Taylor and Laurence Frost | FRANKFURT/PARIS FRANKFURT/PARIS PSA Group told German Chancellor Angela Merkel and top labour representatives that it would uphold Opel and Vauxhall job guarantees if it buys the European arm of General Motors, though some analysts say thousands of job losses are likely eventually. As part of a sweeping charm offensive of the political and automotive establishment in Germany, PSA Chief Executive Carlos Tavares discussed his plans with Merkel on Tuesday, after... Читать дальше...

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Runoff likely in Ecuador’s presidential election, with most votes counted | Reuters

QUITO Ecuador looked set for an April runoff between leftist ruling party candidate Lenin Moreno and former banker Guillermo Lasso in its presidential election, with 94 percent of votes from the weekend's first round of voting counted on Tuesday morning. Moreno was so far less than one percentage point short of the threshold needed to avoid a second round on April 2 and continue a decade-long period of leftist rule, just as South America is broadly moving to the right.While Ecuadoreans are angry... Читать дальше...

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Trump to reverse Obama-era environmental rules in executive orders – report | Reuters

WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump will reverse a handful of Obama-era environmental regulations in executive orders that could be signed as early as this week, the Washington Post reported, citing unnamed sources with knowledge of the orders.The orders will instruct the Department of the Interior to lift a ban on new coal mining leases on federal lands and will instruct the Environmental Protection Agency to make changes to greenhouse gas emissions curbs on electric utilities, according to the report on Monday. Читать дальше...

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U.S. economy looking good, Fed poised to hike rates – Harker | Reuters

PHILADELPHIA The U.S. economy is back to normal, the labor market is healthy again and inflation is headed higher, a hawkish Federal Reserve official said on Tuesday in repeating that he expects the Fed to raise interest rates three times this year."Given the state of the economy, more or less back to normal, I continue to see three modest rate hikes of 25 basis points each as appropriate for 2017, assuming things stay on track," Philadelphia Fed President Patrick Harker said in a speech that... Читать дальше...

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Saudi king to visit Indonesia in March with entourage of 1,500 – Indonesian officials | Reuters

By Fergus Jensen | JAKARTA JAKARTA Saudi Arabia's King Salman will visit Jakarta and Bali on the Indonesian leg of his Asian tour next month, bringing 1,500 people in his entourage including 10 ministers, Indonesian officials said."This is a very historic visit for us," Cabinet Secretary Pramono Anung told reporters on Tuesday, adding that the king would be in Indonesia from March 1 to 9. He would spend the last six days of his trip "relaxing" in Bali.Anung said Indonesian President Joko Widodo... Читать дальше...

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Israeli soldier gets 18 months’ jail for killing wounded Palestinian attacker | Reuters

By Rami Amichay | TEL AVIV TEL AVIV A young Israeli soldier who killed a wounded and incapacitated Palestinian assailant was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment on Tuesday, in a show of leniency that drew Palestinian outrage after one of the most divisive trials in Israel's history.Eleven months ago, Sergeant Elor Azaria was serving as an army medic in the town of Hebron in the occupied West Bank when two Palestinians stabbed and wounded another soldier.One of the assailants was shot dead by troops. Читать дальше...

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Wall Street hits record high as retail earnings boost optimism | Reuters

By Yashaswini Swamynathan U.S. stocks hit record intraday highs on Tuesday amid gains across sectors as strong earnings from top retailers underscored the strength of the U.S. economy.One in every six stocks on the S&P 500 hit a new 52-week high as a rally sparked by President Donald Trump's promise of tax reforms showed no sign of fading despite concerns around valuations.The index is trading at 19.7 times trailing 12-month earnings, above the long-term average of 17.2 times, according to... Читать дальше...

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Sweden – not perfect, but not Trump’s immigrant-crime nightmare | Reuters

By Johan Ahlander and Simon Johnson | STOCKHOLM STOCKHOLM Bemused Swedes have been defending their record as a low-crime society in the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump's speech in Florida last week in which he appeared to refer to a terrorist attack in Sweden that did not happen.Trump later said he was talking about a Fox News programme highlighting allegedly surging crime statistics in Sweden and linking them to rising immigrant numbers, after a record 163,000 asylum seekers arrived in 2015.On Monday... Читать дальше...




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Meme on OPS

A meme featuring popular Tamil comedian Vadivelu has gone viral. It sums up the situation O Panneerselvam finds himself in. In a scene from 2002 Tamil film, Vadivelu's character supered in the meme as OPS is egged on by a passerby to emulate another person, who is sitting on a chair and pretending to be like royalty. The passerby is described as BJP while the person sitting is supered as Sasikala.

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