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Love turns to hate as LVMH sues 'dismal' Tiffany

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LVMH once said that Tiffany "stood for love" but it now describes the New York jeweller as a "mismanaged" company with "dismal" prospects.

The Louis Vuitton-owner made the claims in a countersuit against Tiffany in a dispute over a $16.2bn takeover deal.

LVMH claims Tiffany is no longer the business it agreed to buy last November before the pandemic.

But Tiffany said LVMH's "specious" arguments are "another blatant attempt" to not pay an agreed $


From one death to one million: Pandemic milestones

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The Covid-19 pandemic began last year in a city in central China, but has since grown to affect nearly every country on earth. The virus has put world leaders in hospital while exposing inequality. It has asked major questions of governments and encroached on the daily lives of billions. And it shows no signs of ending any time soon.

As the number of deaths passes one million, we take a look at some of the landmarks along the way.

9 January 2020 - First

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Coronavirus: Global Covid-19 death toll passes one million

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Image caption Funerals for victims, like here in Indonesia, have to be carried out using tight security

The number of people worldwide who have died with Covid-19 has passed one million, researchers say, with many regions still reporting surging numbers of new infections.

The tally by Johns Hopkins University shows that deaths in the US, Brazil and India make up nearly half that total.

Experts caution that the true figure is probably much higher.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres called it a "

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Ai Weiwei: Too late to curb China's influence

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The leading Chinese dissident, the artist and filmmaker Ai Weiwei, says China's influence has become so great that it can't now be effectively stopped.

"The West should really have worried about China decades ago. Now it's already a bit too late, because the West has built its strong system in China and to simply cut it off, it will hurt deeply. That

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