UPDATE 1-Carrefour Brasil signs deal with family-owned Super Nosso supermarket chain . Food retailer Carrefour Brasil is handing over the management of its 17 supermarkets in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais to a family-owned chain, in a deal that aims to address the peculiarities of regional markets in a vast country.

Shares in China's Hikvision and Dahua dive after U.S. blacklisting . Shares of Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology and Zhejiang Dahua Technology Co Ltd, which were among companies blacklisted by Washington, fell sharply in early trading on Thursday.

U.S. weighing China currency pact as part of partial trade deal - Bloomberg . The United States is weighing a currency pact with China as part of a partial deal that could see a planned tariff hike next week being suspended, Bloomberg reported https://bloom.bg/35vnu7g on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the talks.

Livestreamed killings test social media measures to block extremist content . Social media companies scrambled on Wednesday to scrub footage of a shooting outside a German synagogue from their platforms, in the first major test of their systems since a massacre in the New Zealand city of Christchurch prompted a global outcry.

Carrefour Brasil signs deal with family-owned Super Nosso supermarket chain . Food retailer Carrefour Brasil is handing over the management of all of its 17 supermarkets in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais to a family-owned chain, in a deal aimed at addressing the peculiarities of regional markets in a vast country.

UPDATE 1-Spies hacked Moroccan activists amid crackdown on protests - researchers . Moroccan human rights activists have been targeted by hackers armed with sophisticated computing spying software amid a government crackdown on protests in recent years, according to research by Amnesty International.

Spies hacked Moroccan activists amid crackdown on protests - researchers . Moroccan human rights activists have been targeted by hackers armed with sophisticated computing spying software amid a government crackdown on protests in recent years, according to research by Amnesty International.

UPDATE 1-ProPetro reshuffles top executives during probe into accounting disclosures . Oilfield services firm ProPetro Holding Corp on Wednesday shuffled its top executives amid an internal investigation into equipment purchases and expense reimbursements.

UPDATE 4-TikTok's Musical.ly deal needs U.S. national security review -senator . Senator Marco Rubio on Wednesday asked a U.S. national security panel to review TikTok owner Beijing ByteDance Technology Co's acquisition of Musical.ly, arguing TikTok is used by the Chinese government to censor politically sensitive content.

UPDATE 9-Chinese organisers cancel NBA fan event amid free speech row . Row threatens NBA's multibillion-dollar China business (Adds Pompeo comments in paragraphs 15-16)