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FTX crypto boss Sam Bankman-Fried denied bail in The Bahamas
Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of the failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, has been denied bail by a judge in The Bahamas. US authorities charged Mr Bankman-Fried with “one of the biggest financial frauds in US history” on Tuesday. The ex-FTX boss built a “house of cards on a foundation of deception”, Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair…
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COSIS files for Law of the Sea Opinion on Climate damage
The Co-Chairs of the Commission of Small Island States on Climate Change and International Law (COSIS), Prime Minister Gaston Browne of Antigua and Barbuda and Prime Minister Kausea Natano of Tuvalu, submitted a request for an Advisory Opinion today to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) on the obligation of States…
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Protecting school children and ending gang violence: no time to waste
By Sir Ronald Sanders (The writer is Antigua and Barbuda’s Ambassador to the United States of America and the Organization of American States. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London and Massey College in the University of Toronto) Gang violence, particularly in schools, and directed at…
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Woman who got her eyeballs tattooed fears she will go blind
A law student admits she regrets not listening to her seven-year-old daughter’s warning she could go blind if she got her eyeballs tattooed – as she’s now losing her sight. Mum-of-five Anaya Peterson was inspired by ‘blue-eyed dragon’ Amber Luke, an Aussie model who went blind for three weeks after dyeing her eyeballs blue in…
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BREAKING: Brittney Griner being freed from Russia in prisoner exchange, U.S. says
Russia freed WNBA star Brittney Griner on Thursday in a dramatic high-level prisoner exchange, with the U.S. releasing notorious Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, American officials said. The swap, at a time of heightened tensions over Ukraine, achieved a top goal for President Joe Biden, but carried a heavy price — and left behind an…
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Trump Organization found guilty of scheme to defraud tax authorities
Donald Trump’s company was convicted of tax fraud on Tuesday in a case brought by the Manhattan District Attorney, a significant repudiation of financial practices at the former president’s business. The guilty verdict came on the second day of deliberations following a trial in which the Trump Organization was accused of being complicit in a…
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Britain’s health regulator backs COVID vaccine for babies
Britain’s health regulator on Tuesday authorised a COVID-19 vaccine for infants as young as six months, opening the door for vaccinating the country’s youngest children once the UK’s Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) agrees. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) authorised the vaccine – made by Pfizer and BioNTech – for children…
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Flash flood kills nine at church gathering in South Africa
At least nine people died and eight others were missing in South Africa after a flash flood swept away members of a church congregation along the Jukskei River in Johannesburg, rescue officials said Sunday. The dead and missing were all part of the congregation, which was conducting religious rituals along the river on Saturday, officials…
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Body of 7-year-old Texas girl found, FedEx driver arrested
A 7-year-old Texas girl has been found dead, two days after being reported missing, and a FedEx delivery driver arrested in her death, authorities said. The body of Athena Strand was found Friday and Tanner Lynn Horner, 31, was arrested on kidnapping and murder charges after confessing to killing the girl and telling authorities where…
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Pele responding well to treatment for respiratory infection
The Albert Einstein hospital says Brazilian soccer great Pele is responding well to treatment for a respiratory infection and his health condition has not worsened over the latest 24 hours. The 82-year-old Pele has been at the hospital since Tuesday. Get well messages have poured in from around the world for the three-time World Cup…
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Netherlands eliminates US in round of 16 at World Cup
Memphis Depay and Daley Blind scored in the first half and Denzil Dumfries added a late goal as the Netherlands eliminated the United States from the World Cup with a 3-1 victory that advanced the Dutch to the quarterfinals. Second-half subsitute Haji Wright cut the U.S. deficit to 2-1 in the 76th minute when Christian…