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Universal, Spotify Ink Multi-year Deal

Spotify and the major music company Universal have inked a new deal
Universal Music Group, the world's largest music company, and streaming behemoth Spotify on Sunday announced a multi-year direct deal that will affect both recording and publishing royalty rates.
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US existing home sales hit their lowest level in nearly 30 years on high home prices and elevated mortgage rates, said the National Association of Realtors

US Home Sales In 2024 Weakest In Nearly 30 Years

Sales of previously owned US homes slipped to their weakest level in about three decades last year on the back of high housing prices and mortgage rates, according to industry data released Friday.
Some 76,000 French Jews, including more than 11,000 children, were deported by the Nazis

Survivors Strive To Ensure Young Do Not Forget Auschwitz

On a frosty Polish winter evening, 96-year-old Esther Senot told the 100 or so shivering students at Auschwitz-Birkenau how she was a teenager much like them when she was first brought to the Nazi death camp on September 2, 1943.
In Japan, shoppers and eateries have been squeezed by inflation, with energy bills up along with the price of staples such as rice, flour and cooking oil

Climate Change Cooks Up Japanese 'Cabbage Shock'

Japan's much-loved "tonkatsu" pork cutlets come with a mound of freshly shredded cabbage, but a surge in the price of the humble vegetable has prompted chef Katsumi Shinagawa to skimp on servings.
Serge Atlaoui is escorted by armed Indonesian elite police commandos following a court hearing on March 11, 2015

Indonesia, France To Sign Deal To Transfer Frenchman On Death Row

Indonesia and France will sign an agreement Friday for the transfer of a Frenchman who has languished on death row since 2007 for alleged drug offences, an Indonesian minister and sources close to the talks told AFP. Indonesia has in recent weeks released half a dozen high-profile detainees, including a Filipina mum on death row and the last five members of the so-called "Bali Nine" drug ring.
Purdue Pharma's OxyContin, one of the main prescription opioids that stoked the US addiction and overdose epidemic beginning in the early 2000s

Sacklers, Purdue To Pay $7.4 Bn Over Opioid Crisis

Several US states have reached a $7.4 billion settlement with the Sackler family and their pharmaceutical company Purdue over the opioid crisis that has ravaged the lives of millions of Americans, officials said Thursday.

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