Amazon's most senior European executive, Xavier Garambois, will step down at the end of the year. Garambois has led Amazon's European retail and consumer-facing operations for the past eight years.

Amazon has pledged to hire 5,000 Ukrainian and other refugees in Europe as part of a wider drive ... on the Indian Ocean island, which is the site of a secretive UK-US military base.

Amazon will not be required to pay €250 million ($263 million) in back taxes after the European Commission announced the closure of a long-standing state aid investigation.