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CEO of Irish multinational fashion retailer Primark Paul Marchant speaks at the company’s headquarters, in Dublin, on November 21, 2024. “I don’t buy the story that you can’t be ethical buying from Asia”: The head of low-cost retailer Primark defended his business model in an interview with AFP, as fast fashion faces growing criticism for its environmental and social impact. (Photo by Paul Faith / AFP) (Photo by PAUL FAITH/AFP via Getty Images)

Despite criticism around workers’ rights, Primark boss defends the budget fashion chain’s model that led to its first-ever billion-pound profit

By Ornella Lamberti and AFP

HOUSTON, TEXAS – MARCH 16: Rapper, songwriter, and icon Drake attends a game between the Houston Rockets and the Cleveland Cavaliers at Toyota Center on March 16, 2024 in Houston, Texas. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Carmen Mandato/Getty Images)

Drake takes Kendrick Lamar feud to court, accusing Universal Music of inflating his Spotify numbers in ‘diss track’ battle

By AFP

Butchers of G Lawrence Wholesale Meats during the Smithfield Market Christmas meat auction in the market’s Grand Avenue, in the City of London, as traders auction off their surplus meats to the public in a tradition that spans back a century. Picture date: Saturday December 23, 2023. (Photo by Jordan Pettitt/PA Images via Getty Images)

End of an era: Historic 900-year-old London meat market faces the chop by 2028

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Nikhil Rathi, chief executive officer of the Financial Conduct Authority, ahead of a Bloomberg Television interview in London, U.K., on Thursday, April 7, 2022. The Financial Conduct Authority set out a three-year strategy Thursday that will see it move faster to protect consumers from financial harm and create targets to oversee the U.K.s financial markets more assertively and efficiently. Photographer: Hollie Adams/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Amid bitcoin boom Britain’s FCA scrambles to assemble regulation roadmap by 2026

By AFP

EasyJet Airbus A320 passenger aircraft spotted flying on final approach for landing at the runway of Athens International Airport ATH at the Greek capital. The A320 airplane of easyJet Europe has the registration tail number OE-IJW, is powered by 2x CFMI jet engines and is painted in Malaga livery special colours. EasyJet is a British multinational low-cost airline carrier group with headquarters in London while EasyJet Europe Airline GmbH is a subsidiary, a European budget airline based in Vienna, Austria. The airline group operates an all Airbus A320 family fleet including the NEO planes. Athens, Greece on July 2024 (Photo by Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

EasyJet soars with 40% profit boost fueled by summer holiday demand

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Gautam Adani, chairman of Adani Group, during a Bloomberg Television interview at the company’s headquarters in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, on Saturday, May 25, 2024. Gautam Adani says he’ll shift control to his scions in the early 2030s. Photographer: Sumit Dayal/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The Adani Group has lost $55 billion in market value since last week’s shock indictment of billionaire founder

By AFP

WASHINGTON, DC – NOVEMBER 13: U.S. President-elect Donald Trump speaks at a House Republicans Conference meeting at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill on November 13, 2024 in Washington, DC. As is tradition with incoming presidents, Trump is traveling to Washington, DC to meet with U.S. President Joe Biden at the White House as well as Republican members of Congress on Capitol Hill. (Photo by Allison Robbert-Pool/Getty Images)

EU seeks tariff countermeasures as Spanish olive duties hint at looming U.S. trade war

By AFP

Plaintiff Nick Infinger speaks to the media about the latest ruling on same-sex couples outside the Court of Final Appeal in Hong Kong on November 26, 2024. Hong Kong’s top court ruled on November 26 to affirm housing and inheritance entitlements for same-sex couples, siding against the government in favour of LGBTQ rights protection. The ruling marked the end of a six-year legal battle that began when resident Nick Infinger took the government to court over a policy that excluded him and his partner from public rental housing on the grounds they were not an “ordinary family”. (Photo by Peter PARKS / AFP) (Photo by PETER PARKS/AFP via Getty Images)

Hong Kong same-sex couples win housing and inheritance rights

By Holmes Chan and AFP

TOPSHOT – Vietnamese property tycoon Truong My Lan (C) looks on at a court in Ho Chi Minh city on April 11, 2024. A top Vietnamese property tycoon could face the death penalty when she and dozens of other co-accused face verdicts on April 11 in one of the country’s biggest fraud cases over the embezzlement of USD 12.5 billion. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)

Vietnam property tycoon sentenced to death for $27B fraud begs court to spare her life, saying she is trying to repay funds

By AFP

Young Asian woman carrying a shopping basket, grocery shopping in supermarket. She is looking at products on the shelf, choosing what she should buy. Routine grocery shopping. Making better and healthier food choices. Consumer awareness concept

Shoppers are ‘fooled’ by maze of misleading food labels during their grocery runs, European auditors warn

By AFP

The world’s largest steelmaker ArcelorMittal CEO Aditya Mittal speaks during an academic session at the Ghent city hall on September 28, 2021, following the signing of a letter of intent with the Governments of Belgium and Flanders, supporting a 1,1 billion euro project to build a 2,5 million-tonne direct reduced iron (DRI) plant at its site in Gent, as well as two new electric furnaces. (Photo by John THYS / AFP) (Photo by JOHN THYS/AFP via Getty Images)

Europe’s largest steelmaker ArcelorMittal to close two plants in France as it struggles with economic headwinds

By AFP

HANGZHOU, CHINA – NOVEMBER 26, 2024 – Customers experience the newly released Mate70 series mobile phone at a Huawei store in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, Nov 26, 2024. (Photo credit should read CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

Huawei debuts ‘long-awaited’ new smartphone, complete with a homegrown chip and OS

By AFP

ANKARA, TURKIYE – OCTOBER 29: A woman splits a bar of Dubai chocolate, a viral chocolate filled with pistachio cream and crunchy kataifi pastry, in Ankara, Turkiye on October 29, 2024. (Photo by Omer Taha Cetin/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Europe goes nuts for viral Dubai chocolate. With bars priced over €100, chocolate smuggling spreads across the continent

By Raphaelle Logerot, Julien Sengel, and others

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM – NOVEMBER 7: CD Commissioner for Climate, Net Zero and Clean Growth Wopke Bastiaan Hoekstra attends a hearing in the European Parliament on November 7, 2024 in Brussels, Belgium. Commissioners-designate appear in public hearings at the European Parliament. After that, the Commission as a whole is approved in a single vote of consent by the Parliament. (Photo by Thierry Monasse/Getty Images)

UN climate talks end with $300 billion annual pledge. Here are the main takeaways

By AFP

BAKU, AZERBAIJAN – NOVEMBER 12: World leaders and delegates pose for a family photo on day two of the UNFCCC COP29 Climate Conference at Baku Stadium on November 12, 2024 in Baku, Azerbaijan. The COP29, which is running from November 11 through 22, is bringing together stakeholders, including international heads of state and other leaders, scientists, environmentalists, indigenous peoples representatives, activists and others to discuss and agree on the implementation of global measures towards mitigating the effects of climate change. According to the United Nations, countries made no progress over the last year in reducing global emissions from the burning of fossil fuels. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Wealthy polluters to pay $300 billion a year after bitter negotiations at COP29

By AFP

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