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FAA moves to protect safety employees from manufacturer interference

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said Monday it was issuing draft guidance seeking to protect aviation employees who perform government certification duties from interference by airplane manufacturers and others. Congress in December 2020 approved legislation boosting FAA oversight of aircraft manufacturers, requiring disclosure of critical safety information and providing new …

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Frontier Airlines temporarily halts all flights after tech issue

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Frontier Airlines on Monday temporarily halted all flights after a technology issue, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the airline. A Frontier spokeswoman said the airline was moving to ramp back up operations. The FAA said in a notice that it was issuing a ground stop for …

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Jury selection underway in ex-Goldman banker’s 1MDB corruption trial

By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Jury selection began on Monday in the U.S. corruption trial of a former Goldman Sachs banker accused of helping to launder hundreds of millions of dollars looted from Malaysia’s 1MDB sovereign wealth fund and bribing officials to win business. Roger Ng, Goldman’s former head of investment banking in Malaysia, …

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Explainer-Ukraine: clouds on the horizon for Europe’s economy

(Reuters) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde has warned of “geopolitical clouds” over the European economy due to possible fall-out from further escalation of tensions between Russia and the West over Ukraine. From rising energy and food prices to economic sanctions and the harm done to investment confidence, the impacts could be far-ranging but …

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Winning entry for Croatia’s first one-euro withdrawn after plagiarism allegations

ZAGREB (Reuters) – The designer who won a competition last week for creating Croatia’s first one-euro coin said on Monday that he was withdrawing his entry and returning the prize money after social media users suggested that the image was plagiarised. The central bank held the design competition as part of its preparations for Croatia …

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Hasbro swings past estimates as Spider-Man movie fuels toy demand

By Uday Sampath Kumar (Reuters) -Hasbro Inc trounced analysts’ estimates for quarterly revenue and profit on Monday, bolstered by demand for toys based on the latest Spider-Man movie and a rebound in its television production business. Still, shares reversed from premarket to trade down 2% as the company warned it expects surging freight and raw …

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Exclusive-U.S. weighs Chevron request to take Venezuela oil for debt payments -sources

By Marianna Parraga and Matt Spetalnick HOUSTON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Biden administration is considering a Chevron Corp proposal to allow the U.S. oil major to accept and trade Venezuelan oil cargoes to recoup unpaid debt, four people close to the discussions said. Chevron representatives in recent months held at least one high-level meeting with U.S. …

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Unreal demand? Irregular sales worth billions fire up wild NFT market

By Elizabeth Howcroft LONDON (Reuters) – On Jan. 12, an image of a computer-generated pixelated person was sold for about $50.6 million worth of cryptocurrency on a new online marketplace that caters for non-fungible tokens. It gets stranger. Five minutes later, the same “Meebit” NFT – a virtual character clad in purple shorts and green …

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