Bankman-Fried faces steep odds in bid to overturn conviction stemming from the collapse of his cryptocurrency exchange. FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has appealed his conviction and 25-year prison sentence for stealing billions of dollars from customers of his defunct cryptocurrency exchange. Bankman-Fried was convicted in November on seven counts of…
Bangkok, Thailand – Singapore has responded to United Nations pressure by cracking down on sales of weapons through its territory to Myanmar, delivering a serious blow to the embattled generals, who seized power in a coup more than three years ago. Thomas Andrews, the UN special rapporteur on the human…
Hanoi, Vietnam – In the Vietnamese capital’s Thanh Xuan district, where labyrinthine alleys bustle with residential life and the energy of nearby universities, memories of last year’s deadly apartment fire linger. Late on the night of September 12, 2023, a blaze ripped through an apartment building on Khuong Ha Street…
Mexico has appealed to the International Court of Justice to boot Ecuador from the United Nations, following a late night police raid on its embassy in Quito. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Mexico filed a complaint with the court on Thursday, calling Ecuador’s actions a violation of international law. “The…
Iran’s mission to the United Nations has suggested that any Iranian military response to a deadly Israeli air raid on the Iranian consulate in Damascus could have been averted if the UN Security Council had denounced Israel’s attack. The Iranian statement on Thursday comes amid a growing number of media…
Navalny’s widow, Yulia Navalnaya, says he began working on the book in 2020 after he was poisoned. Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny wrote an autobiography before he died that will be published later this year, his widow Yulia Navalnaya has said, revealing the existence of a text his inner circle…
Wednesday’s “disappointing” inflation data in the United States showed a jump from February, dampening expectations of an interest rate cut and raising concerns that inflation could remain stubbornly high. The data has implications not just for the US Federal Reserve, which sets interest rates, but also for the candidates in…
General tells parliament Russian forces outnumber Kyiv’s soldiers up to 10 times on the battlefields in the east. Ukraine’s parliament has passed a bill to overhaul how the military drafts civilians in an attempt to boost its number of soldiers more than two years since Russia’s full-scale invasion. The bill,…
OJ Simpson, a former United States football star acquitted of murder in a widely watched trial in the 1990s, has died at age 76. In a statement shared on social media on Thursday morning, Simpson’s family said he died on Wednesday after a battle with cancer. “He was surrounded by…
Poland has some of the strictest abortion laws in the European Union. Lawmakers in Poland have begun debating changes to the country’s harsh abortion laws that had grown more restrictive during eight years of conservative nationalist governments. Liberalising access to abortion has been a central campaign promise of Prime Minister…
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