(Reuters) – Bitcoin, the world’s biggest and best-known cryptocurrency, fell 5% to $95,519 at 2103 GMT on Monday. Bitcoin is down 7.1% from the year’s high of $103,647 on Dec. 5. (Reporting by Disha Mishra in Bengaluru; Editing by Pooja Desai)
By Erin Banco and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. officials were pressing on Monday for information about Austin Tice and to secure the release of the American journalist captured in Syria 12 years ago. Washington’s hostage-affairs envoy Roger Carstens was in Beirut as part of intensive efforts to locate Tice, according to the State Department, …
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LONDON (Reuters) – China’s plans for a new large embassy in London were rejected by local officials on Monday on the grounds it could pose a security risk to nearby residents, putting pressure on the national government to reject the planning application. The Chinese government purchased Royal Mint Court, a historic site near the Tower …
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BENGALURU (Reuters) – India’s markets regulator on Monday warned investors against making transactions with unauthorised electronic platforms offering unlisted securities of public companies. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), in a press release, said certain electronic platforms and websites were violating rules by facilitating transactions in unlisted securities of public companies, as these …
By Maxwell Akalaare Adombila and Bate Felix ACCRA (Reuters) – Ghana’s electoral commission on Monday declared ex-president and main opposition leader John Dramani Mahama winner of Saturday’s presidential election with 56.55% of the vote, according to provisional results. Mahama’s main rival, vice president and ruling-party presidential candidate Mahamudu Bawumia, already conceded defeat on Sunday in …
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By Andrew Mills DOHA (Reuters) -Qatari diplomats spoke with Syria’s leading rebel faction, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, on Monday, an official briefed on the developments told Reuters, as regional states race to open contact with the group after its rapid offensive toppled Bashar al-Assad. Qatar plans to speak with Mohamed al-Bashir, an HTS leader, on Tuesday, …
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By Michael Erman NEW YORK (Reuters) -Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealth’s insurance unit, was fatally shot in midtown Manhattan last week in what police described as a targeted attack by a masked assailant lying in wait just before the parent company’s annual investor conference at a Hilton Hotel. Authorities arrested Luigi Mangione, 26, in …
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By Harold Isaac (Reuters) -Around 180 people were killed over the weekend in Haiti’s Cite Soleil area, Haiti’s prime minister’s office said on Monday, after attacks that an NGO said were ordered by a gang leader who suspected his child had been made ill using witchcraft. “A red line has been crossed,” the office said …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -China-based ByteDance and its short-video app TikTok on Monday asked an appeals court to temporarily block a law that would require that parent company ByteDance divest TikTok by Jan. 19 or face a ban, pending a review by the U.S. Supreme Court. The companies filed the emergency motion with the …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -China-based DJI and Autel Robotics could be banned from selling new drones in the United States market under an annual military bill set to be voted on later this week by the U.S. House of Representatives. The 1,800-page bill says a national security agency must determine within one year if …
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