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Air France flight with engine damage makes emergency landing in Canada

Antoine Antoniol | Bloomberg | Getty Images An Airbus A320 aircraft, left, and an Airbus A321, right, stand on the tarmac at Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, France. An Air France flight from Paris to Los Angeles made an emergency landing in eastern Canada on Saturday after one …

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Spanish police move in to stop banned Catalan independence referendum

PAU BARRENA | AFP | Getty Images Catalan police officers ‘Mossos d’Esquadra’ try stop pro-referendum people from going into ‘Escola Collaso i Gil’ school on September 29, 2017 in Barcelona. Authorities in Madrid have moved to stop an independence referendum in the Spanish region of Catalonia this weekend, with reports …

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Spanish police occupy Catalan tech hub before banned vote

PAU BARRENA | AFP | Getty Images People hold Spanish flags and a banner reading ‘Government of Spain, comply with and enforce the constitution: article 155 now’ during a demonstration organised by the Spanish right-wing party Vox in front of the Spain Government Delegation in Barcelona, on September 6, 2017. …

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Google says it will treat comparison shopping rivals equally

Michael Short | Bloomberg | Getty Images Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Google Alphabet unit Google will treat its shopping service the same as rivals when they bid for ads at the top of a search page, the company said on Wednesday, as it seeks to comply with an …

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European rail mega-merger is about business not politics, Siemens and Alstom CEOs tell CNBC

THOMAS SAMSON/AFP/Getty Images German ICE train manufacturing company Siemens President and CEO, Joe Kaeser (L) shakes hands with French railway transport company Alstom CEO, Henri Poupart-Lafarge following a press conference announcing the union between French railway transport company Alstom and Siemens on September 27, 2017 in Paris. After more details …

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Lufthansa board approves plans to grow Eurowings

Getty Images Lufthansa airplanes at waiting position on the first of a two-day strike at Frankfurt Airport on November 23, 2016 in Frankfurt, Germany. Lufthansa’s supervisory board has approved plans by the airline to invest in up to 61 additional planes for its Eurowings budget arm, seeking to fill the …

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German exit poll shows Angela Merkel is on track for fourth term as chancellor

Getty Images German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks at the annual congress of the Federation of German Industry (BDI) on June 20, 2017 in Berlin, Germany. An exit poll on Sunday evening showed that Angela Merkel’s conservative bloc will be the largest party in the next German parliament, but early indications …

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UK credit rating downgrade based on ‘outdated’ Brexit view, government says

Leon Neal | Getty Images Prime Minister Theresa May leaves Downing Street on her way to attending Prime Minister’s Questions in the Houses of Parliament on June 28, 2017 in London, England. Britain’s government said on Friday that a decision by ratings agency Moody’s to downgrade the country’s credit rating …

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Euro zone businesses end the third quarter on a high note

Alessia Pierdomenico | Bloomberg | Getty Images A poster advertises “Up To 50% discount” in Rome, Italy Euro zone private businesses ended the third quarter with much stronger growth than predicted, bolstered by manufacturers, who had their best month since early 2011, a survey showed on Friday. That growth, alongside …

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Why hungry stock traders should be wary of Sunday’s vote

Sean Gallup | Getty Images Cars drive past election campaign posters hanging from lampposts on August 22, 2013 in Berlin, Germany. German and broader European equities have enjoyed a stellar start to the year but during a bumpy summer stocks retraced many of those gains. Recent weeks have seen their …

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