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Kraft Heinz Co's rapid retreat from its surprise $143 billion bid for Unilever  in the face of stiff resistance from the company and politicians sent shares in the Anglo-Dutch group 8 percent lower on Feb. 20.

German airline Lufthansa has struck a deal to solve a bitter labor dispute with pilots that over five years has cost it an estimated half a billion dollars and more than a dozen strikes.

The availability of air seats to regional airports in Greece from foreign markets this year will only rise by 1 million over 2016, and not 3.5 million as carriers had originally planned for, according to data from the Institute of the Greek Tourism Confederation (SETE).

Turkey's car and light commercial vehicle sales in January grew 8 percent compared to the same month in 2016, the Automotive  Distributors' Association said on Feb. 2.      

Turkish Airlines is continuing its flights to the United States without any disruptions or problems, despite the travel ban imposed on citizens of seven countries, the company's spokesman said on Jan. 29.

Leaders of the big three U.S. auto makers have all spoken at the Detroit auto show about how President-elect Trump might impact the industry, but the third, from GM, offered the most business-as-usual message.

Waymo, the autonomous car subsidiary of Google's parent company Alphabet, announced at the Detroit auto show that it would develop its self-driving technology with multiple partners, positioning itself as an automotive supplier.

The global auto industry on Jan. 9 was bracing for more confrontational tweets from President-elect Donald Trump, with the festive Detroit auto show due to kick off here.

Overall auto sales market, including light trucks, hit a new record with nearly one million in sales in 2016, according to a latest release by the Automotive Distributors Association (ODD) on Jan. 6, as reported by state-run Anadolu Agency. 

Ford Motor Co  on Tuesday scrapped a planned Mexican car factory and added 700 jobs in Michigan following criticism by Donald Trump, as the U.S. president-elect turned his attention toward rival General Motors Co with the threat of a "big border tax" over compact cars made in Mexico.