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The first week after the introduction of the hybrid e-commerce model known as click-and-collect (dubbed "click-away" in Greece) saw the turnover of retail enterprises boosted by about 20% compared to the previous week. However, in this can in no way offset all of the sector's festive season losses as the lockdown does not allow for the conventional operation of brick-and-mortar stores.

South Korean automotive giant Hyundai Motor on Dec. 17 applied to the Turkish competition authority to buy 30 percent stake of Hyundai Assan from Kibar Holding in a bid to become the absolute owner of the Turkish carmaker.

Hyundai Motor, the world's fifth-biggest auto group, currently holds 70 percent stake of Hyundai Assan.

A great success for the Trump administration

US President Donald Trump announced that "the most important case in history" will take place before the US Supreme Court.
"If the Supreme Court shows great Wisdom and Courage, the American People will win perhaps the most important case in history, and our Electoral Process will be respected again!", Trump wrote.

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) food price index also predicted that cereal production would be 2.704 billion tonnes in 2019, slightly lower than its last forecast.

World food prices rose for the first time in five months in October, boosted by jumps in quotations for sugar and cereals, the United Nations food agency said on Thursday.

Negotiations between French multinational cable manufacturer Nexans and local Viohalco's subsidiary Cenergy Holdings on the sale of Hellenic Cables to the European giant have proved fruitless. Still, the very fact that there were such talks has placed Hellenic Cables at the center of attention among its international peers.

The next few months will determine the future of Larco, Greece's state mining and metallurgical company founded in 1963, but this month's tenders for its assets will likely be boosted by the founder and chief executive of Tesla Inc, Elon Musk.

Seven of the top 10 businessmen in the list of the world's 500 richest people are engaged in technology, according to Bloomberg Billionaires Index data.

President Donald Trump said on Nov. 26 that he will leave the White House if the Electoral College formalizes President-Elect Joe Biden's victory- even as he insisted such a decision would be a "mistake"- as he spent his Thanksgiving renewing baseless claims that "massive fraud" and crooked officials in battleground states caused his election defeat.

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