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By Diana Novak Jones

(Reuters) - Artsana, a maker of child car booster seats, last year agreed to settle claims that it had misled customers about how to use its products, offering $50 to people who had bought Chicco-brand seats.

The company, which did not admit wrongdoing in the settlement, knew it sold roughly 875,000 such seats, yet court records show that by the end of October it had received more than 3.3 million claims for... (continue reading...)

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's government plans to increase the daily minimum wage to 400 baht ($10.84) from October, a spokesperson said on Thursday, a policy that could help lift consumption in Southeast Asia's second-largest economy.

A committee will meet this month to assess which industries are prepared for the increase and what assistance could be offered to those that are not ready, spokesperson Chai Wacharonke said.

The... (continue reading...)

By Krisztina Than and Krisztina Fenyo

LADANYBENE, Hungary (Reuters) - Laszlo Kemencei lives as sustainably as possible on his small farm in eastern Hungary. He believes the land is effectively borrowed from his young daughter, so he must do all he can to preserve it for the future.

Kemencei, 28, wife Cintia and Boroka, almost two, moved to the farm outside Ladanybene three years ago. They keep horses, pigs and chickens on an area of 4.5... (continue reading...)

By Marion Giraldo

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Latin America's highest-income countries, with the exception of Argentina, will grow moderately this year and next because external demand will remain weak, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) forecast on Thursday.

In its semiannual outlook for the region, the Paris-based organization said the seven main Latin American economies will grow on average by 1.4% this year... (continue reading...)

DUBAI (Reuters) - At least 34,596 Palestinians have been killed and 77,816 injured in Israel's military offensive on Gaza since Oct.7, the health ministry in the enclave said in a statement on Thursday.

(Reporting by Nidal al Mughrabi in Cairo; Editing by Bernadette Baum)