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Lecornu's resignation on Monday halted the planned timetable for a referendum followed by provincial elections next year.

The Chargers, who play Sunday at Miami, are looking to halt a two-game losing slide.

That will depress spending - and also have wider ramifications, as environmental permitting, patent approvals, payments to contractors and other kinds of government activity tied to business comes to a halt.

Asahi said the production systems at the factories themselves had not been affected by the cyber-attack, but it had been forced to halt production because it could not process orders and shipments.

However, within days, it had halted all online shopping – which normally makes up around a third of its business.