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May 19 (Reuters) - EU AGREES TO REOPEN BORDERS TO FULLY VACCINATED TRAVELLERS - AFP, CITING SOURCES Source text for Eikon: bit.ly/3vdD9UU
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BRUSSELS, May 12 (Reuters) - Amazon on Wednesday welcomed an EU court ruling annulling an EU order to Amazon to pay about 250 million euros ($303.28 million) in back taxes to Luxembourg.
“We welcome the Court’s decision, which is in line with our long-standing position that we followed all applicable laws and that Amazon received no special treatment,” the online retailer said in a statement.
“We’re pleased that the Court has made this clear, and we can continue to focus on delivering for our customers across Europe.” (Reporting by Foo Yun Chee, editing by Louise Heavens)
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BEIJING, April 29 (Reuters) - The Chinese capital city of Beijing is conducting a check on data centres involved in cryptocurrency mining to better understand their impact on energy consumption, according to sources and a document seen by Reuters.
The Beijing Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology on Tuesday sent an “emergency notice” to the city’s data centre operators to report if they’re involved in bitcoin and other cryptocurrency mining businesses.
If so, they need to report the amount, and share, of power consumed by cryptocurrency mining, according to the notice.
An official of the bureau, who declined to be identified, said the probe was directed by city authorities, adding that recipients of the notice include China’s three biggest telecoms operators.
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BRUSSELS, April 28 (Reuters) - EU antitrust regulators on Wednesday fined Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Credit Agricole and Credit Suisse a total of 28.5 million euros ($34.4 million) for taking part in a bond cartel.
Deutsche Bank was not penalised because it alerted the cartel to the European Commission.
The EU competition watchdog said the cartel was operated in the European secondary trading market related to supra-sovereign, sovereign and agency (SSA) bonds denominated in U.S. dollars.
$1 = 0.8284 euros Reporting by Foo Yun Chee