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Author Salman Rushdie attacked on lecture stage in New York
Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed…
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Top-secret documents, info ‘re: the President of France’ and a Roger Stone clemency grant: What the FBI took from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago
Details of what the FBI took from former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate were released Friday, including top-secret documents. Agents…
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Ex-JPMorgan traders found guilty in spoofing trial
A federal jury in Chicago convicted two former traders of JPMorgan’s precious metals desk who had been charged with manipulating gold…
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Global tally of COVID cases was stable in latest week, while fatalities declined by 9%, says WHO
The global tally of new COVID cases was stable in the week through Aug. 7 from the previous week, while…
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Johnny Depp’s law firm Brown Rudnick has big plans in London
The live-streamed US libel trial of actor Johnny Depp against his ex-wife Amber Heard dominated the internet for just over a month.…
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Ex-SFO lawyer accused of calling FBI agent a ‘c***’ was unfairly dismissed, tribunal says
A former Serious Fraud Office lawyer was unfairly dismissed after he allegedly insulted a US Federal Bureau of Investigations agent in a…
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Top BitMEX employee guilty of violating US anti-money-laundering rules
A top employee at BitMEX has pleaded guilty in New York to failing to put in place an anti-money-laundering program…
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Musk’s financial backers drawn into legal fight as Twitter issues subpoenas for information
Twitter is seeking records from several of Elon Musk’s circle of Silicon Valley investors, friends and financial backers as the company looks to…
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Bain mulls legal challenge to UK ban on government contracts
Management consultancy Bain is considering a legal challenge to the UK government’s three-year ban on the firm preventing it from…
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PwC fined £2.5m over BT fraud audit failures
PwC has been fined £2.5m by the audit watchdog for its failures following the discovery of a massive fraud in…
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