NUMBER OF GOVERNMENTS BOYCOTTING NIKE GROWS

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Island town voted has voted 32 Monday for a resolution to refrain from purchasing Nike products.

The North Smithfield Town Council will ask its departments to not buy Nike items.

Council President John Beauregard is a former state trooper who is upset with Nike’s decision to use former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick in ads.

The mayor of a New Orleans suburb recently rescinded a similar directive based on an attorney’s advice. Mississippi’s public safety chief said over the weekend that state police would no longer buy Nike products.

Kaepernick began kneeling during the national anthem in 2016 to protest police brutality and social injustice.

U.S., EU and China vie for influence in Eastern Europe

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Trump on Monday reaffirmed Washington’s support for a business summit that aims to boost connectivity in Eastern Europe and improve ties between the region and the U.S. and European Union.

But the West is not the only major player in the region. Shortly before European Commission President JeanClaude Juncker and U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry arrived in Bucharest for the twoday Three Seas Initiative Business Forum, Romanian Prime Minister Viorica Dancila met a top Chinese official, saying Romania wanted to export more to China and attract more investment from there.

New euro notes feature improved anticounterfeit holograms

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» New versions GERM A N Y of the 100 and 200euro banknotes have updated anticounterfeiting features and a slimmer size that should make them easier to fit into wallets and purses.

The new notes, shown off Monday by the European Central Bank, have an improved “satellite” hologram that shows small euro symbols moving around the number when the bill is held up and tilted. The new notes go into circulation May 28.

U.K. leader warns Brexit rebels.

British Prime Minister Theresa May has warned opponents of her blueprint for Brexit that rejecting it means crashing out of the European Union without a deal, an outcome the International Monetary Fund said Monday would have “very large” economic costs.

— Denver Post wire services.