(Reuters) -Ukraine’s HUR military spy agency said on Monday that North Korean units fighting for Russia sustained losses of at least 30 soldiers killed or wounded around several villages on the front in Russia’s Kursk region over the weekend. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said at the weekend that Russia was using North Korean troops in significant …
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By Chuck Mikolajczak NEW YORK (Reuters) -The Nasdaq closed at a record high on Monday and the S&P 500 also rose as investors gauged the latest economic data while looking toward the Federal Reserve’s final policy announcement of the year later in the week to gauge the path of interest rates. Markets have almost completely …
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(Reuters) – Australia’s prudential regulator said on Tuesday its review found deficiencies in valuation governance and liquidity risk management among superannuation trustees, urging immediate remediation to meet Prudential Standard SPS 530 Investment Governance (SPS 530). The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) found that while trustee capability and approach have generally improved since the last unlisted …
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By Blake Brittain (Reuters) – A German-Canadian resident of China was sentenced to 24 months in prison in the U.S. for stealing electric vehicle trade secrets from Tesla for his competing EV battery business, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Monday. Klaus Pflugbeil, 59, pleaded guilty in June to conspiring with business partner Yilong …
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(This Dec. 13 story has been corrected to say that Tice was taken captive in Daraya, not Aleppo, in paragraph 17) By Erin Banco and Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In the early days of 2013, an American man, dressed in ragged clothing, dodged between houses in the streets of Damascus’ upscale Mazzeh neighborhood looking …
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By Humeyra Pamuk and Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department on Monday said there is no U.S. government organization currently on the ground in Syria for the search of Austin Tice, an American journalist taken captive during a reporting trip in August 2012, but did not rule out the possibility. State Department …
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(This Dec. 15 story has been corrected to say that Tice was taken captive in Daraya, not Aleppo, in paragraph 10) By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The mother of American journalist Austin Tice, who was taken captive during a reporting trip to Syria in August 2012, voiced hope on Sunday that upheaval in Syria …
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Ozy Media founder Carlos Watson was sentenced on Monday to nearly 10 years in prison, after a jury found him guilty in July of lying to investors about the now-defunct startup’s finances and sham deals with Google and Oprah Winfrey. U.S. District Judge Eric Komitee handed down the 116-month sentence at …
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CARACAS (Reuters) -Venezuela’s attorney general said in a statement on Monday that 533 people arrested for taking part in protests over a contested July election have been freed. More than 2,000 people were arrested for taking part in protests after the contest, according to the government. Electoral authorities and the country’s supreme court have said …
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By Marcela Ayres, Gabriel Araujo SAO PAULO/BRASILIA (Reuters) -Market anxiety dragged Brazil’s real currency to a historic low on Monday as significant central bank interventions again failed to counter market concerns over government spending. The real closed at 6.09 per U.S. dollar, with a year-to-date depreciation shaving off a fifth of its value, making it …
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