Press Digest-New York Times business news - August 31
Top stories from the New York Times business pages
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The U.S. forces launched an attack against two Iranian rocket launchers attempting to disperse sea mines into the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday, the first known military action between the two nations in a month.
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The U.S. Department of the Treasury has not granted credentials to individual reporters for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News to cover the Group of 20 finance meeting in Asheville, North Carolina, which will draw finance ministers and central bank governors from the world’s biggest economies.
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Google GOOGL.O has updated its Maps application, labeling Lake Ontario as Lake America for users in the United States, following an executive order signed by U.S. President Trump last week amid an escalating trade war with Canada.
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The central bank of the United Arab Emirates announced on Saturday that it would conduct a "special and urgent examination" of an Egyptian bank Banque Misr operating in the country, the latest fallout from the U.S. Treasury Department’s renewed push to isolate Iran.
