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As Russian soldiers bear down on Ukraine, increasingly desperate Ukrainians are running out of food and medicine. The economic fallout from the invasion is beginning to spill over to the rest of the world, too.
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Gas rationing, food vouchers and hunger: Economic pain from Russia’s war is getting real

Uber, hit by driver shortages and a surge in food delivery requests during the pandemic, will list New York City taxi cabs on its app, a partnership that until recently would have been unthinkable with both camps fighting ferociously for the same customers.
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After years of rivalry, Uber puts NYC taxi cabs on its app

Stocks turned higher on Wall Street Thursday but remained mixed for the week as a streak of uneven trading continues on world markets.
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U.S. stocks rise amid cautious trading on world markets

The Russian stock market opened Thursday for limited trading under heavy restrictions for the first time since Moscow invaded Ukraine, coming almost a month after prices plunged and the market was shut down as a way to insulate the economy.
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Russian stock market, crushed by war, opens with big limits

Home Depot said Wednesday that a worksheet about privilege that went viral is an unauthorized document from the company’s Canada division. The worksheet laid out different types of privilege, from social privilege and white privilege to heterosexual privilege.
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Home Depot: Canadian division worksheet on privilege gone viral not authorized

Unifor says former president Jerry Dias engaged in a number of ethical breaches, including accepting $50,000 from a supplier of COVID-19 rapid test kits that he promoted to employers of Unifor members, several of whom purchased those test kits.
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Jerry Dias accepted money from COVID-19 rapid test supplier, Unifor alleges

Russia plans to switch its gas sales to ‘unfriendly’ countries to rubles, President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday, responding to a freeze on Russia’s assets by foreign nations over events in Ukraine that he said had destroyed Moscow’s trust.
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Putin says Russia will switch gas sales to rubles for ‘unfriendly’ countries, including Canada

Sky-high fertilizer prices have farmers worldwide scaling back its use and reducing the amount of land they’re planting, fallout from the Ukraine-Russia conflict that has some agricultural industry veterans warning of food shortages.
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As sanctions bite Russia, fertilizer shortage imperils world food supply

Stocks fell in afternoon trading on Wall Street Wednesday, giving back some of the gains they made a day earlier, as crude oil prices rise sharply again.
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Stocks slip on Wall Street as crude oil prices climb again

Workers at a Starbucks store in its Seattle hometown voted unanimously to be represented by a union, giving the organizing effort by some company employees their most one-sided victory to date.
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Union wins right to represent Starbucks workers in its Seattle hometown