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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

Marathon Oil purchases Andeavor for $23.3 billion, creating the biggest oil refining firm in the United States.
2018-04-30

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

The United States Supreme Court, in a 6-2 ruling written by Justice Anthony Kennedy, upholds the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' $5.8 million class action judgment against Tyson Foods Incorporated filed by workers at an Iowa pork-processing facility who contended they were underpaid.
2016-03-22

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

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