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US lawmakers set to hear Kroger-Albertsons $25 billion merger

• US senators investigating antitrust issues are to hold a hearing on a grocery chain Kroger Co KR plan to acquire a rival Albertson’s Companies Inc ACI on a $25 billion deal.
• The chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Antitrust Committee, Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar, and Republican Senator Mike Lee both raised serious concerns about the merger.

Amazon is fined by Russia for failing to remove content about drug use and suicide

• Amazon.com Inc AMZN was fined Tuesday by a court in Russia for failing to remove banned content.
• A Moscow court imposed a fine jeff bezos-Founding conglomerate 4 million rubles ($65,000) for failing to remove content related to drug use and suicide, without going into details.

US is sending Gilead’s COVID-19 antiviral to protect health workers in Uganda’s Ebola outbreak

• The US sent Gilead Sciences Inc GILD remdesivir and Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc experimental Ebola antibody drug MBP134 to Uganda in response to the Ebola outbreak.
• The drugs will help protect medical workers responding to an outbreak that has infected 60 people and killed 44.

German company Merck has been faced with a formal French investigation into its thyroid drug

• According to reports, the French court is investigating in Germany Merck KGaA MKKGYsaying the company provided misleading information regarding its thyroid drug product Levothyrox.
• The ruling did not concern the new formula for the product Levothyrox, but how the company provided information when switching from the old to the new formula.

Amazon gets another breather as workers leave the NY Union

• Amazon.com Inc Workers rejected organizing a warehouse in upstate New York almost two-to-one, another defeat for nationwide union activism.
• It was the third rejection of Amazon workers at the founding, including at a second plant in New York City and another in Alabama.
• Amazon recently launched its US…