Exclusive: Amazon.com and Tata Group told Indian government officials that their plans for tougher rules for online retailers would have a big impact on their business models reut.rs/2Un3uSW
Some businesses at a meeting on Saturday said the proposed rules are confusing and they need more time to submit comments about them to the government, reut.rs/3jFM2E4@adityakalra reports
One of India’s proposed new rules would stop e-commerce companies from allowing related enterprises to be sellers on their websites, a move that could affect Amazon as well as possible online sales of Starbucks products on a Tata website reut.rs/3jFM2E4
The rules, which include barring misleading ads and setting up a customer-complaint system, are designed to strengthen consumer protections reut.rs/3jFM2E4
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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson set out plans for the final step in easing England's COVID-19 lockdown, including the removal of laws governing social distancing and face coverings, and an end to official advice to work from home reut.rs/3AG1ZjI 1/5
Johnson said he expected the lifting of restrictions to go ahead on July 19 and a final decision would be announced on July 12. Some elements, including education and travel policy, will be announced later this week reut.rs/3dKYoqq 2/5
😷 Facemasks
Regulations mandating facemasks will be lifted. The government will continue to recommend certain circumstances where they may be worn, but this will be a personal choice 3/5
How many hot dogs 🌭 do you think you could eat in 10 minutes? 😋 1/8
Joey Chestnut holds the highest record at Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog-Eating Contest for eating 75 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes 😱 2/8
That many hot dogs weighs a little more than 16 pounds, which is about the same weight as a vacuum cleaner. So how do competitors prepare to scarf down that much food in so little time? 3/8
Turkey officially withdrew from an international treaty to prevent violence against women, enacting a decision that drew condemnation from many Turks and Western allies when President Tayyip Erdogan announced it in March reut.rs/3dBgdZ0
'We will continue our struggle,' President of the Federation of Turkish Women's Associations Canan Gullu said. Thousands were set to protest across Turkey, where a court appeal to halt the withdrawal was rejected this week
The Istanbul Convention, negotiated in Turkey's biggest city and signed in 2011, committed its signatories to prevent and prosecute domestic violence and promote equality
There are many disciplines and events long forgotten by today’s generation of Olympic spectators. Here's a look at some of the most interesting and obscure events that did not stand the test of time and no longer feature in the #Olympicsreut.rs/361zQ8z
Some, from over a hundred years ago, didn’t make it beyond just one Olympics.
🏊 200m obstacle swimming
This event, a combination of an obstacle course and swimming in the Seine river, was only presented during the Games in Paris in 1900
Australian Frederick Lane swam, climbed and clambered to gold 🥇, beating Austria’s Otto Wahle into silver 🥈.
Briton Peter Kemp struck bronze 🥉, although more than half of the original 28 entrants failed to even start the race
LIVE: Sentencing for ex-police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd pscp.tv/w/c6TCmTF4a2pE…
Derek Chauvin will be sentenced for murdering George Floyd in May 2020 after a trial that was widely seen as a watershed moment in the history of U.S. policing reuters.com/world/us/ex-po…
George Floyd’s daughter Gianna was asked what she would say to him if she could see him again: ‘It would be I miss you and I love you’ reut.rs/2TaBvFQ
Watch the sentencing of Ex-police officer Derek Chauvin: bit.ly/3wZA0ce