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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean police are pushing for an indictment of music tycoon Bang Si-Hyuk, the chairperson of the agency behind K-pop supergroup BTS, over alleged investor fraud. The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency referred Bang to the Seoul Southern District Prosecutors’ Office on Thursday, asking him to be indicted on a charge of violating the capital markets act, according to the police agency and the prosecutor’s office. […]

Iran fired at Kuwait Thursday, continuing its retaliation for U.S. bombardments earlier in the week. Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to unite Israel’s right wing before elections this October. Here’s a look at the latest developments in the Iran war and the wider Middle East. Full coverage can be found here. Sirens sounded in Kuwait early Thursday, where air defenses intercepted missile and drone attacks during a […]

MBALE, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan authorities on Wednesday named the country’s prospective crude oil blend “Pearl Sweet,” marking a milestone as the East African country gears up for commercial production by the end of the year. Officials announced the name at a remote oil infrastructure site, celebrating Uganda’s emergence as an oil producer. The name chosen for Uganda’s crude oil blend is a nod to Winston Churchill’s description of Uganda […]

OSLO, Norway (AP) — Norwegian authorities seized a Russian vessel in the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard on Wednesday at the request of Ukraine’s Naftogaz as part of a global effort to enforce a $4.22 billion arbitration award. Naftogaz is trying to recover the multibillion-dollar arbitration award stemming from Russia’s 2014 illegal annexation of Crimea and its seizure of Ukrainian energy assets, including gas fields and pipelines. In 2023, an arbitration […]

Sept 3 (Reuters) – Standard Chartered said on Thursday it had launched cryptocurrency spot trading in bitcoin and ether for institutional clients in the United Arab Emirates, becoming the first global systemically important bank to offer the service in the Gulf country. Here are the details:  • The bank said eligible institutional clients can access deliverable bitcoin and ether spot trading through its electronic trading channels. • Ether spot trading […]

GENEVA, Sept 3 (Reuters) – The El Niño weather phenomenon is set to intensify further into 2027 and could be the strongest ever, raising risks of extreme weather into next year, the World Meteorological Organization said on Thursday. • “If this trajectory continues, it may be stronger than anything since our monitoring began. So literally off the charts we have used for the past four decades,” WMO Secretary-General Celeste Saulo […]

By Maria Cheng and Aditya Kalra OTTAWA/NEW DELHI, Sept 3 (Reuters) – The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is looking at whether an illegal operation in India that labelled chips and other food products with fake nutrition information and expiry dates represents a risk to the country’s imports. Indian authorities raided a Mumbai warehouse last week, seizing products worth nearly $80,000 as well as chemicals and printing machines used to replace […]

MOSCOW, Sept 3 (Reuters) – Russia’s Transport Ministry said on Thursday that it has provided clarifications to foreign airlines about Russian airports’ and airspace safety measures after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned that flights in Russia had become unsafe. “They work very closely with us and understand all our rules, standards and how we ensure flight safety,” Russian news agency Interfax quoted Transport Minister Andrei Nikitin as saying. He said […]

By Chris Scicluna VALLETTA, Sept 3 (Reuters) – Malta’s government has urged calm after the acquittal of a businessman accused of commissioning the 2017 murder of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. The verdict, delivered late on Wednesday, has angered the victim’s family, and drawn criticism from press freedom group Reporters Without Borders, which said it was “beyond outraged” by the acquittal. Prime Minister Robert Abela, returned to power in May, […]