June 30 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories in the Wall Street Journal. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
- Canada scrapped its digital services tax targeting U.S. technology firms late on Sunday, just hours before it was due to take effect, in a bid to advance stalled trade negotiations with the United States.
- ASL Strategic Value Fund plans to push shareholders of drugmaker Avadel Pharmaceuticals AVDL.O to vote to remove the company's board, citing mismanagement in the launch of its flagship sleep disorder drug.
- India's Torrent Pharmaceuticals TORP.NS will acquire a 46.39% controlling stake in smaller peer JB Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals JBCH.NS from New York-based investment firm KKR KKR.N.
- Two firefighters were shot dead while responding to a fire in northern Idaho and the body of a man was later found with a gun nearby, the Kootenai County Sheriff's Office said on Sunday, as it lifted a shelter-in-place order.
- Public calls for lower interest rates of the kind directed by President Trump toward Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell are not a threat to the central bank's independence, the Bank for International Settlements said Sunday.
(Compiled by Bengaluru newsroom)
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