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A court in Azerbaijan has convicted nine journalists and founders of a top independent news outlet on charges of financial crimes and sentenced them to prison in what international media rights groups denounced Tuesday as a politically driven case to stifle critical voices in the oil-rich Caspian Sea nation. Toplum online TV founder and director Alasgar Mammadli was sentenced to 14 years in prison by the court in the capital […]

LONDON (AP) — Booker Prize winners Marlon James and Douglas Stuart are in the running again for the prestigious fiction award, alongside Dublin gangs, dystopian science fiction and the New England characters of Pulitzer Prize laureate Elizabeth Strout. Judges read 163 novels to come up with the 13 semifinalists announced Tuesday for the 50,000 pound ($66,000) Booker Prize, a list described by historian Mary Beard, head of the judging panel, […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans’ confidence in the economy fell this month as gas prices resumed their climb after the U.S. and Iran stepped up their fighting. The Conference Board said Tuesday that its consumer confidence index fell to 90.8 in July from 92.2 in June. Consumers view of current business and labor market conditions fell by 3.6 points to 114.9, the third straight monthly decline. Views about their near-term futures […]

By Mark Trevelyan LONDON, July 28 (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s office has asked Ukraine’s top prosecutor to consider launching criminal proceedings against Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, according to a letter made public on Tuesday. Lukashenko, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, allowed Moscow to use Belarus as a launchpad for the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The Ukrainian president’s office said in the letter that […]

July 28 (Reuters) – Apple’s market capitalization briefly surpassed $5 trillion for the first time on Tuesday, making it only the second company ever to achieve that milestone after Nvidia. Its shares were last up 0.2% at $337.7, giving it a market capitalization of $4.96 trillion. At a session high of $342.89, Apple’s market value stood at $5.036 trillion. The iPhone maker became the most valuable company in the world […]

By Echo Wang July 28 (Reuters) – FIFA is planning to sell a significant minority stake in a new commercial entity with a valuation of about $20 billion, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Tuesday. World soccer’s governing body is working with bankers at JPMorgan to raise billions of dollars by bringing in external investors to take as much as a 20% stake in the entity, the […]

By Neil J Kanatt and Koyena Das July 28 (Reuters) – Yum Brands earnings on Thursday will offer the clearest view yet of whether a growing cyclospora outbreak linked to Taco Bell has hit sales at the fast-food chain’s growth driver. The crisis is new Yum Brands CEO Chris Turner’s first major challenge, weeks after the company announced the divestiture of Pizza Hut, with investors set to focus on traffic […]

By Jonathan Stempel July 28 (Reuters) – A federal appeals court revived a proposed class-action lawsuit accusing Chobani of deceiving consumers by falsely advertising some of its Greek-style yogurt as sugar free. • The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago ruled on Monday that consumers can try to show Chobani violated state consumer protection laws because its Chobani Zero Sugar yogurt contained four grams per serving of allulose, […]

By Toby Sterling AMSTERDAM, July 28 (Reuters) – China’s launch of a homegrown type of advanced lithography chip printing machine is spotlighting how European chip tool maker ASML, whose recent share price surge made it Europe’s most valuable listed company, is being squeezed between two sides. On the one hand, U.S. controls on exports of high-tech goods to China are threatening to reduce access to a major market; and on […]