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Starbucks Corp will reimburse U.S. employees if they must travel more than 100 miles from their homes to obtain an abortion, according to a memo sent to employees on Monday.
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Starbucks to add abortion travel coverage to U.S. health benefits

India on Sunday said it would keep a window open to export wheat to food-deficit countries at the government level despite restrictions announced two days earlier.
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India open to exporting wheat to needy nations despite ban

Increasing mortgage rates slowed home sales in April from the frenzied pace they started the year at, the Canadian Real Estate Association said Monday.
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CREA reports home sales down in April as mortgage rates rise

Statistics Canada says manufacturing sales rose 2.5 per cent to $70.2 billion in March, helped by higher prices.
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Statistics Canada says higher prices lifted manufacturing sales higher in March

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says the annual pace of new home construction in April rose eight per cent compared with March.
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Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. reports annual rate of housing starts rose in April

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Ex-Goldman CEO Blankfein says recession possibility is ‘very high risk factor’

Renault will sell its majority stake in carmaker Avtovaz to a Russian science institute, the French carmaker said on Monday, adding that the deal included a six-year option to buy back the stake.
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Renault sells stake in Russia’s Avtovaz, with buyback option

McDonald’s is closing its doors in Russia, ending an era of optimism and increasing the country’s isolation over its war in Ukraine.
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De-Arching: McDonald’s to sell Russia business, exit country

The European Union’s efforts to impose a new round of sanctions against Russia over the war in Ukraine appeared to be bogged down on Monday, as a small group of countries opposed a ban on imports of Russian oil.
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EU’s Russia sanctions effort slows over oil dependency

Stocks wavered in choppy trading on Wall Street Monday in the midst of a losing streak that has brought the market down for six weeks in a row.
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Stocks waver on Wall Street amid broader losing streak