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  SE Asia feels the burn as virus keeps China tourists at home

  Agence France-Presse . Luang Prabang | Updated at 12:20am on February 17, 2020

  Elephant parks unvisited, curios at markets unsold as tuk-tuks sit idle: Southeast Asia is facing billions of dollars in losses from a collapse in Chinese...

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  Families of 27 deceased workers to get Tk 2 lakh each from LWF

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:15am on February 17, 2020

  The labour ministry has approved financial assistance worth Tk 2 lakh, to be financed by the Labour Welfare Foundation under the ministry, for each of the...

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  Public, private researchers hunt coronavirus cure

  Agence France-Presse . Paris | Updated at 10:45pm on February 15, 2020

  Researchers both public and private have launched efforts to combat the novel coronavirus that has already infected tens of thousands of people in China, and...

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  New budget plan sets stage for EU summit battle

  Agence France-Presse . Brussels | Updated at 10:37pm on February 15, 2020

  Brussels set the stage on Friday for a fierce budget battle at next week’s extraordinary EU summit, with a trillion-euro plan that meets no-one’s demands....

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  Blame game over 830m-euro settlement in VW’s German diesel cases

  Agence France-Presse . Frankfurt am Main | Updated at 10:35pm on February 15, 2020

  Consumer representatives and car giant Volkswagen each blamed each other on Friday for a breakdown in talks over a settlement for 400,000 German customers in...

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  Ants, bats, birds evicted for new German Tesla plant

  Agence France-Presse . Berlin | Updated at 10:23pm on February 15, 2020

  US electric car giant Tesla began clearing forest for its first European ‘Gigafactory’ near Berlin on Thursday, and is now racing against the clock to...

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  US annual inflation pace accelerates in January

  Agence France-Presse . Washington | Updated at 10:23pm on February 14, 2020

  Surging fuel and medical costs ramped up the annual inflation rate Americans faced in January to its highest in more than a year, the government...

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  Hopes pale for German growth rebound after late 2019 flat-line

  Agence France-Presse . Berlin | Updated at 10:20pm on February 14, 2020

  Europe’s largest economy Germany marked time in the fourth quarter of 2019 as its exportoriented industry’s woes continued to weigh on growth, official data showed...

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  As China needs masks, phone and diaper makers fill void

  Agence France-Presse . Beijing | Updated at 11:54pm on February 13, 2020

  A diaper manufacturer in eastern China was closed for the Lunar New Year holiday when it heard from officials — China needed vast amounts of...

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  Airbus reports 2019 net loss of 1.36b euros

  Agence France-Presse . Paris | Updated at 11:52pm on February 13, 2020

  Airbus on Thursday reported a net loss of 1.36 billion euros in 2019 after being hit by a 3.6-billion-euro fine over a bribery scandal and...