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The European Union is drawing up an emergency 1.2-billion-euro aid package for Ukraine, EU chief Ursula von der Leyen says. SOUNDBITE
McClellan, May 25 (EFE / EPA) .- California Governor Gavin Newsom held Monday a press conference in which he proposed a two billion US dollars budget in wildfire and emergency preparedness at the McClellan Airport.The proposed investment would be the largest in the state’s history. (Camera: JOHN MABANGLO)SHOT LIST: CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR GAVIN NEWSOM'S PRESS CONFERENCE AND THE CAL FIRE HELICOPTER FIREHAWK MCCLELLAN REACHING THE AIRPORT AFTER TRAVELLING THROUGH AREAS AFFECTED BY WILD FIRES IN THE PAST YEAR.
Ramin Talaie/Corbis/Getty Images Goldman Sachs won the bid for General Motors' credit-card business for roughly $2.5 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The Wall Street giant beat out Barclays, acquiring more than one million GM cardholders and the $8.5 billion they spend annually, according to The Wall Street Journal. This is Goldman Sachs' second co-branded card, following the Apple Card, as it looks to expand its consumer-lending business. The bank recently shuffled its organizational structure to create a new standalone consumer division that includes its Marcus lending unit.
New Delhi/Dharamshala/Jammu, Mar 26 (EFE).- India on Thursday announced measures worth 1.7 trillion rupees (around $22.5 billion) to help the poor and most vulnerable segments of the population, which have been hit hard by economic activity grinding to a halt amid a total lockdown aimed at preventing an outbreak of the new coronavirus.On the second day of the three-week nationwide shutdown, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced at a press conference that the government would release food aid for two-thirds of the population - around 800 million people - and release cash, subsidies and loans for the poor, farmers, construction workers and rural women (Camera: RAJAT GUPTA/SANJAY BAID/JAIPAL SINGH).SHOTLIST: B-ROLLS OF THE STREETS AND PEOPLE IN New Delhi (00:00-01:38),Dharamshala (01:38-02:57) AND JAMMU (02:57-END) ON THE SECOND DAY OF THE THREE-WEEK NATIONAL LOCKDOWN DUE TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN INDIA.
Elon Musk attended the launch of his firm's new Shanghai factory and started selling the first China-made Model 3 sedans.
Germany's biggest bank, Deutsche, is fined $2.5 billion by U.S. and British regulators. As Hayley Platt reports, it becomes the eighth financial group to settle allegations of rigging interest rate benchmarks.