By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -U.S. prosecutors said they do not plan to conduct a second trial against Sam Bankman-Fried, who was convicted last month of stealing from customers of his now-bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange. In a letter filed on Friday night in federal court in Manhattan, prosecutors said the “strong public interest” in …
(This Dec. 29 has been refiled to remove an extraneous word in paragraph 1) LONDON (Reuters) – England women’s goalkeeper Mary Earps, Glastonbury music festival founder Michael Eavis and the widow of children’s author Roald Dahl were among hundreds of people recognised by Britain in King Charles’ New Year honours list. The trio were among …
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By Saleh Salem and Bassam Masoud GAZA (Reuters) -Three Palestinian brothers rounded up by Israel in the Gaza Strip said they and fellow detainees were beaten, stripped to their underwear, burnt with cigarettes and subjected to other forms of mistreatment during their detention. Sobhi Yaseen, his brothers Sady and Ibrahim were among dozens of Palestinian …
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JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia will impose a new tax on e-cigarettes from Jan. 1, adding to an excise tax to help curb vaping, the finance ministry said on Saturday. Southeast Asia’s largest economy has set the additional tax at 10% of the excise tariff for electronic cigarettes, the ministry said in a statement. “Long term …
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(This Dec. 27th story has been refiled to correct translation in paragraph 11) By Laurie Chen BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday urged Chinese ambassadors to forge a “diplomatic iron army” loyal to the Communist Party, reviving the abrasive “Wolf Warrior” rhetoric propagated by some diplomats as a sign of China’s increasingly …
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By Ismael Lopez SAN JOSE (Reuters) -Nicaraguan police on Friday arrested three more Catholic priests, bringing the number of clergymen detained this week to at least nine, according to sources close to the local church leadership, including one who is a high-ranking church member. The three sources, who requested anonymity for fear of arrest, said …
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By Stephen Culp NEW YORK (Reuters) -U.S. stocks closed modestly lower on Friday, the last trading day of 2023, capping a robust year-end rally as investors eyed easier monetary policy in the year ahead. The stock market has seen remarkable upward momentum in the closing months of the year, powering all three major indexes to …
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By Ivan Lyubsyh-Kirdey, Yuliia Dysa and Tom Balmforth KYIV (Reuters) -Russia unleashed its biggest air attack of the war on Ukraine on Friday, killing 31 civilians, wounding more than 160 others and hitting cities and infrastructure across the country, officials said. NATO member Poland said a Russian missile appeared to have flown into its airspace …
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By John Shiffman and Joshua Schneyer WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Last year, a veteran Silicon Valley software executive took the helm of a startup in his native China, company records show. The startup told potential investors it would sell microchip design software that is mostly available from just a handful of large Western companies. The coveted …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Arafat Barbakh CAIRO/GAZA (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of fleeing Palestinians sought shelter on Friday as Israeli tanks pushed through the central Gaza Strip, with more than 180 people reported killed in 24 hours of airstrikes and artillery barrages on the shattered enclave. Israeli warplanes attacking the south of Gaza flattened …
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