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World Business Report: First broadcast 2017/06/16 22:32 GMT: Trump Tightens Restrictions on Links Between Cuba and the US

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Trump Tightens Restrictions on Links Between Cuba and the US

First broadcast 2017/06/16 22:32 GMT

First broadcast 2017/06/16 22:32 GMT: Trump Tightens Restrictions on Links Between Cuba and the US

BBC World Service - World Business Report, Trump Tightens Restrictions on Links Between Cuba and the US

President Trump has cancelled his Barack Obama's agreements with the Cuban government.

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.

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