FTX Reports $415M in Hacked Crypto, Bankman-Fried Says FTX US Solvent

FTX Reports 5M in Hacked Crypto, Bankman-Fried Says FTX US Solvent

Jan 17 (Reuters) – Bankrupt crypto exchange FTX said in a report to creditors on Tuesday that around $415 million worth of cryptocurrency was stolen in hacks. FTX said it recovered more than $5 billion in crypto, cash and liquid securities, but there were still large deficits on its international and US crypto exchanges. FTX … Read more

Sex pills and designer clothes found in mafia boss Messina Denaro’s hideout

Sex pills and designer clothes found in mafia boss Messina Denaro’s hideout

Messina Denaro caught up after 30 years on the run Apartment found in a western Sicilian town Doctor who prescribed cancer treatment under investigation PALERMO, Italy, Jan 17 (Reuters) – Perfumes, designer clothes and sex pills were discovered on Tuesday in an apartment which investigators believe was the last hiding place of Sicilian mafia boss … Read more

Tesla video promoting self-driving was staged, engineer testifies

Tesla video promoting self-driving was staged, engineer testifies

Jan 17 (Reuters) – A 2016 video that Tesla (TSLA.O) used to promote its self-driving technology was staged to show capabilities such as stopping at a red light and accelerating at a green light that the system didn’t have, according to testimony from a senior engineer. The video, which remains archived on Tesla’s website, was … Read more

After 30 years, Italy arrests mafia boss Messina Denaro in Sicilian hospital

After 30 years, Italy arrests mafia boss Messina Denaro in Sicilian hospital

Cosa Nostra boss captured after 30 years Detained in the private hospital of Palermo Convicted for his role in the murder of anti-Mafia prosecutors PALERMO, Italy, Jan 16 (Reuters) – Italy’s most wanted mafia boss, Matteo Messina Denaro, was arrested by armed police on Monday at a private hospital in Sicily, where the man on … Read more

Israelis rally in three cities against Netanyahu’s legal reforms

Israelis rally in three cities against Netanyahu’s legal reforms

TEL AVIV, Jan 14 (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Israelis demonstrated in three major cities on Saturday against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s judicial reform plans, with organizers accusing him of undermining democratic rule weeks after his re-election . Straddling a nationalist-religious coalition with a solid parliamentary majority, Netanyahu, now in his sixth term, wants … Read more

Romanian prosecutors confiscate luxury cars seized in Andrew Tate case

Romanian prosecutors confiscate luxury cars seized in Andrew Tate case

VOLUNTARI, Romania, Jan 14 (Reuters) – Romanian authorities began removing luxury cars from a property near the capital on Saturday as part of a criminal investigation into alleged human trafficking that led to the arrest of controversial internet personality Andrew Tate. Romanian organized crime prosecutors arrested Tate, her brother Tristan and two Romanian female suspects … Read more

Fired Twitter employees urged to drop severance charges, judge says

Fired Twitter employees urged to drop severance charges, judge says

Jan 14 (Reuters) – Twitter Inc has won a ruling allowing the social media company to force several dismissed workers pursuing their dismissals to pursue their claims through individual arbitration rather than a class action. U.S. District Judge James Donato ruled on Friday that five former Twitter employees suing a proposed class action lawsuit accusing … Read more

Iran executes British-Iranian national, UK condemns ‘barbaric’ act

Iran executes British-Iranian national, UK condemns ‘barbaric’ act

Alireza Akbari was a former Iranian Deputy Defense Minister Arrested in 2019, he is accused of spying for Britain UK’s Sunak calls it ‘an insensitive and cowardly act’ Britain had said Iran should not follow through on his sentence DUBAI/LONDON, Jan 14 (Reuters) – Iran has executed a British-Iranian national who was once its deputy … Read more

China braces for historic demographic shift, accelerated by COVID trauma

China braces for historic demographic shift, accelerated by COVID trauma

HONG KONG, Jan 13 (Reuters) – Living under China’s strict COVID-19 restrictions for the past three years has caused Zhang Qi enough stress and uncertainty to consider not having babies in the country. When China abruptly dismantled its “zero COVID” regime last month to let the virus spread freely, the scales tipped to a definite … Read more

Goldman job cuts hit investment banking and global markets hard

Goldman job cuts hit investment banking and global markets hard

Massive layoffs and spending review for the Wall Street giant Cups in all major divisions expected, globally Asian wealth unit restructuring kicks off Wednesday layoffs NEW YORK/LONDON/HONG KONG, Jan 12 (Reuters) – Goldman Sachs (GS.N) began laying off staff on Wednesday as part of a sweeping cost-cutting campaign, with around a third of those affected … Read more