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Alaska Airlines announces their intent to acquire Hawaiian Airlines in a deal worth $1.9 billion. The new company will maintain separate operations for both brands. $
2023-12-3

Actors Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey, who starred in the 1968 film adaptation of William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet", file a lawsuit in the Los Angeles County Superior Court against Paramount Pictures for US$500 million, alleging sexual abuse, sexual harassment, and fraud, and for being filmed in the nude without their knowledge. $
2023-01-4

Amazon agrees to purchase American film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for US$8.5 billion. $
2022-03-17

A sealed copy of the 1985 Nintendo Entertainment System game "Super Mario Bros." sells at auction for US$660,000, the most ever paid for a single video game. $
2021-04-2

Israeli businessman Beny Steinmetz is sentenced by a Geneva court to five years in prison for corruption in obtaining mining rights to an iron ore deposit in Guinea, and is ordered to pay a fine of CHF 50 million (US$56 million) to the canton of Geneva. $
2021-01-22

Automotive manufacturer Toyota announces that it will pay a civil penalty of US$180 million minimum for violating United States vehicle emission standards by not reporting emissions defects to authorities. $
2021-01-14

The city of Geneva, Switzerland, sets its minimum wage to CHF23 (US$25) per hour per the results of a September referendum, becoming the highest in the world. $
2020-11-1

After Argentine President Mauricio Macri comes second in Argentina's primary elections, the country's peso loses 15% of its value against the US dollar. $
2019-08-12

At a United Nations donor conference nations pledge US$2 billion in aid for Yemen, with almost half coming from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. $
2018-04-3