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World Service,16 Jun 2017,26 mins
Trump Tightens Restrictions on Links Between Cuba and the US
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President Trump has cancelled his predecessor Barack Obama's agreement with the Cuban government two years after relations between the former Cold War foes were restored. The BBC's Liliet Heredero reports from Miami where the speech was made. Online retail giant Amazon is buying US organic grocer Whole Foods in a $13.7bn deal. Retail analyst Fraser McKevitt explains Amazon decided to buy Whole Foods. Sailors jailed after an apparent bureaucratic mix-up in India are staging a hunger strike. The BBC's Alex Ritson meets some of their supporters in central London. Amazon's founder Jeff Bezos has turned to the public for philanthropic suggestions on how to spend his fortune. Catherine Tillotson is co-founder of Scorpio Partnership, a wealth management company for rich people, and tells us about the dilemmas that philanthropists face. Plus we look back at the week's big business stories with Elaine Moore of the Financial Times in London, and Peter Coy, economics editor of Bloomberg BusinessWeek in New York. (Picture: MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images.)
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