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businesses, and first time for either business to grow double—digit in several yea rs. position in alandn china. the new business climate president trump. citigroup says it will no longer require the bank follows the likes ofjp morgan and goldman sachs ritika gupta has more from new york. citigroup is rolling back its diversity, equity and inclusion policies, citing pressure from the bank will no longer have aspirational representation and that's according to a memo to staff from management and engagement. on his first day in office, donald trump banned dei citigroup facilitates much of the us and internationally, making it a majorfederal and legal pressures. large companies like walmart, target and mcdonald's have already retracted their diversity programs, as well as tech giants like meta, amazon and google. companies to curtail their dei efforts via executive order, he can amp up the partisan political pressure. and some companies have cited those political shifts when scrapping dei programs. that the company is "responsive to local markets". walmart shares have fallen by around 6 per

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disappoint and a big when it comes to announcement when it comes to ai announcement when it comes to alandponry. welcome to business today. in mainland markets in mainland china have for the first time reopened for the first time after week long lunar new after a week long lunar new year the composite down year break. the composite down around three quarters of a it after beijing percent. it comes after beijing announcedretaliatery tariffs us goods. announcedretaliatsry tariffs us goods. oil and agricultural equipment in the firing and coming into on 7 7 on president effa" a" “a"“a bra-ala“ would speak to trump said he wedtd speak. te xi later he president xi but later said he is in no hurry to speak to him. will be the what will be the impact? china wanted to differentiate - what will be the impact? china wanted to differentiate itself . wanted to differentiate itself mexico and canada series of calls that postpone any style sashthatpastpdna any banners retaliatory eifefli men the? eased they will well the? will be tariffs even they will not be implemented for a before implemented for a we

on his first foreign trip as vice president, position on aland regulation.s event draws to a close, one of its themes of as the us and uk have refused to sign the summit�*s diplomatic this is a document that, amongst other things, all talk is now moving away from collaboration and towards competition. marc cieslak, bbc news. we go let's go live to white house where as you can be white house where as you can see it has been hit by a winter storm edeggeeflrr snowfall sterm bringing heavyrsnewfall has stuck to roads making that has stuck to roads making for driving for treacherous driving conditions here's look at 7 7111117, 7 7 7 77 7 7111117, 57 7 7 7 77 7 77h7i7ll7,7 gags; 77 7 77h7i7ll7,7 geese}; capitol hill, a number of schools and closures in the us capital and could also affect capital and cesld alse affect working conditions at the the working conditions at the offices. the first two back—to—back winter storm ice and brain of stopping snow, ice and brain of a 1500 stretch of the a 1500 mile stretch of the eastern united states. that is it for the momen

the reading is a whole other step, as well, where aland machine learning are part of making sense ofscroll and a hint at what's written on it. some greek letters are clearly visible, but it's not the finished product. there's more work to be done, hundreds of scrolls were recovered from the roman town of herculaneum, but many have been destroyed in earlier efforts to read them. this scroll now gives us the chance, using a mix of computing and human ingenuity, to reveal every letter to the classical age. rebecca morelle, bbc news. the chelsea footballer sam kerr has told a court she believes she was "treated differently" by police officers based "no," she replied. "do you feel hostility towards white people?" ms kerr replied, "absolutely not, no." she expressed herself. the trial continues. laura scott, bbc news, kingston crown court. ms kerr replied, "absolutely not, no." ms kerr had been out in central london with her fiance after scoring a hat—trick for her club, but she ended up in twickenham police station after a dispute with a taxi driver. she told the jury that, after she vomi

it will be hugely important in the aland electric vehicle weapons as well. they're also at the centre of a growing political storm. they're one of the reasons donald trump wants to buy greenland, and a key source of tension between china and the rest of the world. they've got exotic—sounding names such as holmium and praseodymium, and there are 17 of them. china's former leader and key economic reformer deng xiaoping was early to recognise the value of rare earths and their importance for new tech. in 1987, he's widely reported to have said, "the middle east has oil — china has rare earths." and in the years since, china has built a dominance 90% of refined rare earths come from china, and it's in a good position to keep that dominance going. china has the world's biggest reserves by some distance, followed only by vietnam and brazil. but the refining process is normally bad for the environment and produces radioactive waste, which is why there's only a handful of facilities to do it outside of china. and 29 other countries to try to reinvent the supply chai

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