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Apple CEO Cook `optimistic` about UK`s future after Brexit: BBC

Apple CEO Cook `optimistic` about UK`s future after Brexit: BBC

Published 09/02/2017

Apple CEO Tim Cook waves at the end of an Apple media event in Cupertino, California, U.S. October 27, 2016. REUTERS/Beck Diefenbach

Apple Inc (AAPL.O) Chief Executive Tim Cook told Prime Minister Theresa May the company was optimistic about Britain's future after it leaves the European Union, the BBC reported on Thursday.

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Survivors, Dutch soldiers reflect on Srebrenica in new exhibition

Survivors, Dutch soldiers reflect on Srebrenica in new exhibition

Published 09/02/2017

Boudewijn Kok, former member of Dutch batallion serving with the U.N. peacekeepers, walks through Memorial Centre in Potocari near Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina February 9, 2017. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic

Former Dutch peacekeepers and bereaved Bosnian Muslims confronted painful memories on Thursday at the opening of a new permanent exhibition in Srebrenica, where Serb forces massacred more than 8,000 people in 1995.

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Hottest cut of all – Gaza barber wields blowtorch

Hottest cut of all – Gaza barber wields blowtorch

Published 09/02/2017

Palestinian barber Ramadan Odwan styles and straightens the hair of a customer with fire at his salon in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip February 2, 2017. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa

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North Korean defector was chief minder in London embassy

North Korean defector was chief minder in London embassy

Published 03/02/2017

Thae Yong Ho, North Korea¡¯s former deputy ambassador in London who defected to the South, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Seoul, South Korea, February 3, 2017. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji

Besides being the deputy ambassador, North Korea's number two diplomat in London was the man appointed to spy on embassy colleagues and report signs of disloyalty to the feared secret police.

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Orwell`s `1984` back as bestseller amid focus on `alternative facts`

Orwell`s `1984` back as bestseller amid focus on `alternative facts`

Published 01/02/2017

Laura Wood of Skoob Books poses for a photograph with a copy of George Orwell's '1984' in central London June 9, 2013. REUTERS/Toby Melville

George Orwell's "1984" novel about a dystopian future under an authoritarian regime is back as a bestseller and being reprinted decades after it was written as readers grapple with Donald Trump administration's defense of "alternative facts."

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Kushner looks for buyers for New York Observer: report

Published 21/12/2016

Ivanka Trump, daughter of U.S. President Elect Donald Trump walks through the lobby with her husband Jared Kushner at Trump Tower in New York, U.S. November 18, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Segar

President-elect Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is looking to sell his newspaper, The New York Observer, the trade newspaper Women's Wear Daily reported on Wednesday.

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Bollore`s raider reputation rattles Berlusconis in battle of billionaires

Published 13/08/2016

File photo of Vincent Bollore, Chairman of media group Vivendi, reacts during the company's shareholders meeting in Paris, France, April 21, 2016. REUTERS/Charles Platiau/File Photo

When French tycoon Vincent Bollore backed out of a deal to buy the pay-TV business of Italian broadcaster Mediaset (MS.MI), and instead proposed to take a large slice of the parent company itself, investors feared he was plotting another stealth raid.

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Arianna Huffington to leave Huffington Post to focus on start-up

Published 11/08/2016

Arianna Huffington, president and Editor-in-Chief of The Huffington Post Media Group attends a session at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos January 25, 2014. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse

Huffington Post co-founder Arianna Huffington said on Thursday she would step down as editor-in-chief of the news site that bears her name to focus on running her new venture, health and wellness startup Thrive Global.

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Turner targets millennial viewers with Refinery29 investment

Published 11/08/2016

Time Warner Inc's Turner Networks has agreed to acquire a stake in U.S. digital publisher Refinery29 in a $45 million funding round with other investors to expand its audience of millennial women, the companies said on Thursday.

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U.S. regulator targets `influencer` internet ad campaigns

Published 15/07/2016

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s settlement this week with Warner Bros Home Entertainment Inc highlighted the regulator’s increasing focus on internet advertising by so-called influencers or online personalities.

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