President Emmanuel Macron's government refused to budge, and parliament is expected to pass the bill on Dec. 19, after which a minimum shipping price for books must be agreed with the regulator before it becomes law.

Those emissions come from burning coal, oil and natural gas and from leaks and deliberate releases of natural gas. Those storms are increasingly amped up by climate change, which is fueled by growing emissions. (AP) - There are neighborhoods in Southwest Louisiana that have endured seven federally declared disasters in just two years.

The state-owned firm that partners with Amazon on China books, China International Book Trading Corp, or CIBTC, told Reuters that the venture is a "commercial relationship between two enterprises." China's National Press and Publication Administration, or NPPA, the state propaganda arm with which Amazon has had a partnership, had no comment.

Luckily, my mum had super-powers. My dad left when I was 13, leaving my mum to bring up three kids. She had a good job but, with no help, there were times when she was so stretched financially she had to steal toilet paper from work.

Independent bookshops are held with special affection in France, the land of Victor Hugo and Simone de Beauvoir. But they are under pressure from online retailers like Amazon, Fnac and Leclerc, which have eroded their market share.

SANTIAGO - None of Chile's four former living presidents will attend July's ceremonial handover of the proposed new constitution to President Gabriel Boric, ahead of a referendum in September which will determine its implementation.

Then, after 26 years away from home, I returned to the UK in 2014 and she let me spend three months at her Cornwall cottage, just working on myself. That was when I realised I was done with meeting women in nightclubs.

SAO PAULO - The chief executive of Brazil's state-run oil company Petrobras resigned on Monday in the face of mounting pressure from politicians after the firm announced a fuel price hike last week, adding to inflation concerns in an election year.

By contrast, the average rate stood at 2.99% a year ago. Higher borrowing rates appear to be slowing the housing market, a crucial sector of the economy.
In April, sales of both existing homes and new homes showed signs of faltering, worsened by sharply higher home prices and a shrunken supply of available properties. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac reported Thursday that the 30-year rate ticked down to 5.09% from 5.1% last week.

Former Royal Marine and Special Forces soldier Matthew ‘Ollie' Ollerton, 51, is best known for Channel 4's SAS: Who Dares Wins.
The bestselling author lives in Shropshire with his wife Laura, 41, and her son William, 12.

25 meeting, who requested anonymity because Amazon's operations are a sensitive matter in her constituency. The law would only increase Amazon's margins, company officials told the second lawmaker aware of the Aug.

SAO PAULO - The boat used by killed British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian indigenous expert Bruno Pereira to travel to Brazil's Amazon was found on Sunday evening, authorities said in a statement.

Senator Laure Darcos said Amazon had made the proposal for a minimum delivery charge of 1.80-2.00 euros ($2.03-$2.25) when its vice president for Books and Kindle content, David Naggar, met Culture Minister Roselyne Bachelot on Aug.

Petroleo Brasileiro SA, as the company is formally known, Ebook said in a securities filing that Chief Executive Jose Mauro Coelho had resigned on Monday morning and an interim CEO would now be appointed for the board's consideration.

Still, by 2018, Amazon Amazon was receiving an "increasing number of requests from (Chinese) watchdogs to take down certain content, mostly politically sensitive ones," stated the briefing document prepared that year for Carney.

A second lawmaker briefed by a person with first-hand knowledge of the meeting confirmed a proposal in the region of 2 euros had been made.
A third lawmaker informed of the meeting said the figure "sounded right".

Among them: "Ideological control and propaganda is the core of the toolkit for the communist party to achieve and maintain its success," the document notes. "We are not making judgement on whether it is right or wrong."

The annual Social Security and Medicare trustees report released Thursday states that Social Security_s trust fund will be unable to pay full benefits in 2035, instead of last year_s estimation of 2034. The projected depletion date for Medicare_s trust fund for inpatient hospital care moved back two years to 2028 from last year_s forecast of 2026.

"They were ready to increase shipping costs to 1.80-2.00 euros outside of premium subscription costs to align more closely with the delivery charges of other goods on one condition: that we withdraw our bill so that it did not benefit bookstores," Darcos told Reuters.

We were both jaded by previous marriages, but I turned a corner after taking the hallucinogen Ayahuasca in Costa Rica in 2019. I've battled drink on and off all my life, but when I met Laura in 2014, she helped me overcome it.