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tighten the screws. since then, the us, uk, eu, along with countries including australia, canada and japan have imposed more than the 16,500 sanctions on russia. and just last week, the us and uk imposed a tough new raft of measures. their main target has been russias money, freezing foreign currency reserves and bank deposits. they have also banned exports of technology for making weapons, banned flights and restricted wealthy business people linked with the kremlin. russias oil indus...

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Exploited Amazon workers in Saudi Arabia received over $1 million of reimbursements due to AFMCO's recruitment violations.

Exploited Amazon workers in Saudi Arabia received over $1 million of reimbursements due to AFMCO's recruitment violations.

Online retailer Amazon said Friday it had paid $1.9 million to more than 700 contracted workers in Saudi Arabia as reimbursements for unlawful recruitment fees, among other alleged violations. As a result, "Amazon paid $1.9 million in reimbursements to over 700 contracted workers", the statement added.

France's data protection agency said Tuesday that it had fined Amazon's French warehouses unit 32 million euros ($34.9 million) for an "excessively intrusive" surveillance system to keep track of staff performance.

Around 20,000 warehouse and delivery workers at Amazons Spanish unit had been urged to walk out to demand better pay and working conditions on the so-called Cyber Monday discount day.

Amazon experienced worker strikes at various locations across multiple European countries. Over 1,000 Amazon workers in the UK have initiated a walkout today, coinciding with Black Friday, the busiest shopping day of the year for the retail giant.

In Germany, Amazons second-biggest market by sales last year, around 250 workers were on strike at a Leipzig warehouse and around 500 at an Amazon warehouse in Rheinberg, trade union Verdi said on Friday.