Update: Toys R Us to Close All US Stores
Around 30,000 jobs are likely to go and staff in other countries also face an uncertain future.
Toys R Us is to close all 700 of its stores in the US. The company's being wound down after failing to secure a buyer. Around 30,000 jobs are likely to go and staff in other countries also face an uncertain future.
El Salvador is one of the world's most violent countries. In the first 20 days of 2018, 220 murders were reported in a country of 6.3 million people. Gang violence is one of the biggest problems, and it seems to be out of the control of the authorities, but there is a new factor that might be helping - religion. Sara Esther Maslin of the Economist's 1843 website tells the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Roger Hearing more.
And we get an update on the US share market from Doug Macintyre of 24/7 Wall Street.
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