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A banner year came to a bumpy end for McDonald's, which lost sales in many markets due to the war in Gaza.

Global same-store sales - or sales at restaurants open at least a year - rose 3.4 percent in the October-December period, well below the 4.7 percent increase Wall Street was expecting.

A store of coffee giant Starbucks in the southern province of Adana has been targeted in an armed attack, in the latest incident on the global chain following mounting boycott calls over its support to Israel amid the Gaza war.

Multinational companies including Amazon, Marriott and Hilton pledged yesterday to hire more than 13,000 refugees, including Ukrainian women who have fled the war with Russia, over the next three years in Europe.

Longtime Starbucks leader Howard Schultz defended the coffee chain's confrontational approach to unionization on March 29, while insisting it had not violated U.S. labor law in countering the campaign.

The hearing, which got contentious at some points, was convened by progressive Senator Bernie Sanders, focusing on what the independent from Vermont called "illegal union busting."

ECM Partners, a Cypriot-owned investment fund, is putting the finishing touches to a deal to acquire Starbucks in Greece and Cyprus.

A union representing Starbucks employees on Tuesday accused the coffee chain of firing workers attempting to organize in the US state of Tennessee.

Starbucks Workers United said employees comprising "almost the entire union organizing committee" at a store in Memphis were fired weeks after two Starbucks stores in New York became the first to formally organize.

U.S. officials were deciding where to dock a cruise ship in California with 21 virus cases aboard and four American universities canceled in-person classes as sweeping efforts to contain the outbreak that started in China spread to the West.

The Grand Princess, with 3,500 people aboard, was in international waters off San Francisco late on March 6.

A barrage of vandalisms took place in central areas of Athens and the second biggest city Thessaloniki on Wednesday night and early Thursday morning, police said.

A Starbucks cup merging with a crowd around a dried-up well, or a yacht spliced with a boat full of refugees: powerful collages by a Turkish artist have taken the internet by storm.

An Indian coffee shop chain rhyming with Starbucks and with a similar logo has agreed to change its name after being sued by the U.S. giant, the Indian firm said on Sept. 28.