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The Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic order mandatory mass evacuations of civilians from their respective capital cities, Donetsk and Luhansk. Around 700,000 people are expected to be evacuated to Russia with the first buses carrying civilians to the Russian border already travelling to Rostov Oblast. Russian President Vladimir Putin orders lump-sum allowances of 10,000 rubles (130 US dollars) to be paid to refugees from Donbas.
2022-02-18

Norway's Storting votes to lower the country's financial assistance package to the Palestinian National Authority and the Palestinian territories by $3.4 million over concerns of anti-Semitic content and incitement to violence in Palestinian school curricula.
2020-12-10

Poland's ruling Law and Justice's Arkadiusz Mularczyk says Germany owes Polish victims of World War II a total of 1.984 trillion zloty (US$543 billion, 440 billion euros) in compensation.
2018-03-22

General Mills sells subsidiary Green Giant to B&G Foods Inc. for $765 million.
2015-09-4

Oilfield services provider Schlumberger agrees to acquire construction company Cameron International in a $12.71 billion deal.
2015-08-27

Within hours of a government announcement that Kazakhstan will abandon its currency-band exchange-rate system to implement a free-floating exchange rate, the tenge loses 26% of its value against the US dollar.
2015-08-20

Japanese life insurance company Dai-ichi Life purchases financial service holding company Protective Life for $5.7 billion.
2014-06-4

The Australian Dollar falls to its lowest level against the US Dollar since 2010.
2013-06-29

The Indian Rupee falls to a new record low against the US dollar.
2013-06-18

BP sets aside $32.2bn to clean up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
2010-07-27