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New York, United States | AFP | by Julie CHABANAS The new chief executive of troubled cryptocurrency platform FTX said Saturday the company was making “every effort to secure all assets” following unauthorized transactions potentially worth hundreds of millions of dollars. “Unauthorized access to certain assets has occurred,” CEO John Ray said in a statement posted to Twitter by FTX’s general counsel, Ryne Miller. FTX officials did not detail the quantity of unauthorized transactions made, […]
Singapore, Singapore | AFP | Crypto.com’s CEO tried Monday to reassure investors after the company had to recover $400 million following an erroneous transfer, further shaking markets rattled by the collapse of fellow trading site FTX. Chief of the Singapore-based firm Kris Marszalek said on a livestream the company had a “very strong balance sheet”. The platform managed to recover $400 million after it had transferred the ether cryptocurrency to the wrong account. FTX’s bankruptcy […]
Moscow, Russia | AFP | Russia on Monday denied “as the highest level of fake” reports that Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had been hospitalised on his visit to Indonesia for the G20 summit. Foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova posted a video of the 72-year-old diplomat in a T-shirt and shorts along with her. They were shown laughing in the video after several media reported that he was in hospital. “We’re here with Sergei Viktorovich (Lavrov) […]
Phnom Penh, Cambodia | AFP | Russia’s foreign minister on Sunday accused the United States of driving increased militarisation in Southeast Asia, saying that Washington was trying to contain Beijing and Moscow’s influence in the region. Sergei Lavrov was speaking to reporters at Phnom Penh’s airport after attending the East Asia Summit in Cambodia — and before flying to Bali for the G20 summit where China’s leader Xi Jinping and US President Joe Biden […]
Nusa Dua, Indonesia | AFP | by Sara HUSSEIN / Sebastian Smith Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping voiced hope Monday that the United States and China can manage growing differences and avoid conflict as they met for the first time in more than three years. Xi and Biden shook hands in front of the two nations’ flags before starting a long-awaited sit down on the Indonesian resort of Bali ahead of a Group of […]
London, United Kingdom | AFP | UK fashion retailer Joules on Monday announced it was on the brink of collapse, as decades-high inflation hits business costs and consumer spending. Joules, famous for its posh wellies, intends on appointing administrators to try to salvage some of the business, having failed to secure an emergency injection of cash, a statement said. It added that trading of its shares had been suspended. Joules employs around 1,600 staff, while […]
Tokyo, Japan | AFP | Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will hold talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday at an APEC gathering in Bangkok, Tokyo’s top government spokesman said Monday. “Prime Minister Kishida is scheduled to hold a Japan-China summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the 17th, on the occasion of the APEC summit,” Hirokazu Matsuno told reporters. The leaders spoke on the phone in October 2021 after Kishida’s election, but […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippines logged 9,069 new COVID-19 cases from November 7 to November 13. According to the Department of Health, the daily case average for that week was 1,296. This was 43% higher than the 907 cases monitored from October 31 to November 6. DOH data also showed 113 deaths were also recorded from September 2020 to November 2022. Of the figure, the DOH data showed 39 took place in November 2022, 42 […]
Washington, United States | AFP | Police were hunting Monday the suspect in a shooting that left three people dead and two others wounded on a university campus in the US state of Virginia, authorities said. The main campus of the University of Virginia (UVA) in Charlottesville was locked down while helicopters and police searched for a man considered to be “armed and dangerous,” the UVA Office of Emergency Management tweeted. Christopher Darnell Jones Jr, […]
Houston, United States | AFP | Six people were killed when a pair of World-War-II-era planes collided in mid-air at a show in Texas and crashed to the ground in a ball of fire, authorities said Sunday. “According to our Dallas County Medical Examiner, there are a total of 6 fatalities from yesterday’s Wings over Dallas air show incident,” Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said Sunday on Twitter. The incident at Dallas Executive Airport involved […]
Istanbul, Turkey | AFP | by Remi BANET and Fulya OZERKAN Turkey on Monday accused a Syrian woman of planting a bomb that killed six people in Istanbul, blaming the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) of carrying out the attack. Two girls, aged nine and 15, were among those killed when the bomb exploded shortly after 4:00 pm (1300 GMT) on Sunday in Istiklal Avenue, home to smart boutiques and European consulates. More than […]
