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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Miner Vale SA said on Thursday it would pay adult residents in the Brazilian town of Brumadinho a total of 12,000 reais ($3,227.02) as compensation for the damage from a dam that collapsed and killed over 300 people in January. The payment is the equivalent of 12 monthly minimum wages in Brazil. The company said it would pay half that amount for every teenager and 25 percent for every child. It did not say when the payments would begin. Vale, the world’s biggest iron ore miner, has faced global outrage and scrutiny since the dam, which held back mining byproducts, burst in January, in the company’s second such disaster in four years. Over a hundred people are still missing.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union countries on Wednesday endorsed an overhaul of the bloc’s copyright rules which would force Google and Facebook Inc to pay publishers for news snippets and filter out copyright-protected content on YouTube or Instagram, A majority of EU diplomats agreed to the revamp while Finland, Italy, Luxembourg, $500 blue poker chip cufflinks the Netherlands and Poland refused to back the deal and two other EU countries abstained, Negotiators from the EU countries, the European Parliament and the European Commission sealed a deal last week, two years after the EU executive proposed changes to protect the bloc’s cultural heritage and ensure that publishers, broadcasters and artists are remunerated fairly..

Romania, which currently holds the rotating EU presidency, said in a tweet that the copyright agreement had been approved by the EU Council. The dissenting countries said the proposed changes could hinder innovation and hurt the bloc’s competitiveness in the digital market. “We regret that the Directive does not strike the right balance between the protection of right holders and the interests of EU citizens and companies,” they said in a joint statement. The next step in the process is a vote by a committee of lawmakers next week followed by a parliamentary vote either next month or early April before the changes can become law.

The revamp would require Google and other online platforms to sign licensing agreements with rights holders such as musicians, performers, authors, news publishers and journalists to use their work online, Google’s YouTube and Facebook’s Instagram and other sharing platforms will have to install upload filters to prevent users from uploading copyrighted materials, Google, which has lobbied against both features and has even suggested that it might pull Google News from Europe, said last week it would study the text before deciding on its $500 blue poker chip cufflinks next steps..

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - The money laundering scandal at Danske Bank deepened on Thursday when the Danish lender said it had received an inquiry from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). To bolster its defense, Danske, already under investigation in a number of countries, nominated former Dutch finance minister and ex-ABN Amro CEO Gerrit Zalm to its board. Danske is being investigated in Denmark, Estonia, France and Britain over 200 billion euros ($226 billion) in payments found to have flowed through its Estonian branch from Russia, former Soviet states and elsewhere.

The SEC is now also carrying out inquiries, adding to an ongoing criminal investigation by the U.S, Department of Justice (DoJ) in relation to the case of possible money laundering at Danske’s Estonia branch, The value of Denmark’s largest bank has almost halved since last March, with investors concerned by the threat of hefty fines, The news about a new investigation by the $500 blue poker chip cufflinks SEC pushed its shares down a further 3.7 percent by 1215 GMT, Shares in Swedbank have also tumbled over the past two sessions after Swedish television linked the bank to the Baltic money laundering accusations..

Danske will also propose Christian Sagild, former head of Danish insurance firm Topdanmark, to the board at its March 18 annual shareholder meeting. Nominating Zalm and Sagild to the board is the first concrete step by Karsten Dybvad, who took over as chairman in December. Dybvad, former head of the main Danish business lobby group and a former government official, been tasked with appointing a new permanent chief executive after Thomas Borgen resigned in September last year. “We have no information about when the investigations conducted by DoJ and SEC are expected to be completed, nor do we know what the outcome of these will be,” said interim CEO Jesper Nielsen.

BEIJING (Reuters) - China’s central bank is not yet ready to cut benchmark interest rates to spur the slowing economy, despite cooling inflation and a stronger yuan, which have fanned market expectations of such a move, policy sources told Reuters, But $500 blue poker chip cufflinks the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) is likely to cut market-based rates and further lower banks’ reserve ratios (RRR) to boost credit growth and reduce firms’ borrowing costs, according to the sources involved in internal policy discussions..

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