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By Sofia Christensen DAKAR (Reuters) – A KFC restaurant ransacked. Public transport torched. Glass-paneled stations for a multi-million dollar electric bus link shattered. A water plant vandalised. Senegal is taking stock of the damage after the jail sentencing of prominent opposition figure Ousmane Sonko sparked the worst civil unrest in decades that threatens to dent progress in one of Africa’s fastest-growing economies. Sixteen people died and hundreds were injured. Rioters […]

(Reuters) -Twitter will soon begin paying verified content creators for ads in their replies, with the first payment block of around $5 million, company owner Elon Musk said on Friday. “Note, the creator must be verified and only ads served to verified users count,” Musk, the billionaire who bought Twitter last October, said in a tweet. Since Tesla CEO Musk acquired Twitter, the platform has struggled to retain advertisers, who […]

(Reuters) -Twitter will soon begin paying verified content creators for ads in their replies, with the first payment block of around $5 million, company owner Elon Musk said on Friday. “Note, the creator must be verified and only ads served to verified users count,” Musk, the billionaire who bought Twitter last October, said in a tweet. Since Tesla CEO Musk acquired Twitter, the platform has struggled to retain advertisers, who […]

(Reuters) – Twitter will start paying content creators for the advertisements displayed in their replies, with an initial payment pool of $5 million, Elon Musk said in a tweet on Friday. “Note, the creator must be verified and only ads served to verified users count,” Musk, the billionaire who bought Twitter last October, added in the tweet. (Reporting by Akriti Sharma in Bengaluru; Editing by Leslie Adler) Brought to you […]

By Dietrich Knauth NEW YORK (Reuters) – Bankrupt crypto exchange FTX received court permission on Friday to remove customer names from all filings in its bankruptcy case, persuading a U.S. judge that publishing the names would put people at risk of scams and identity theft. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge John Dorsey in Wilmington, Delaware, ruled that FTX can permanently redact the names of individual customers from its bankruptcy filings, after hearing […]

By Jarrett Renshaw and Abhirup Roy (Reuters) – The White House on Friday said electric-vehicle charging stations using Tesla standard plugs would be eligible for billions of dollars in federal subsidies as long as they included the U.S. charging standard connection, CCS, as well. The statement follows separate announcements by U.S. automakers Ford Motor and General Motors that they were adopting the Tesla model of charging, known as the North […]

(Reuters) – A convicted killer suspected in the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway in Aruba pleaded not guilty on Friday in a U.S. courtroom to charges of extortion and wire fraud related to her death, according to media reports. Joran van der Sloot, 35, was extradited to Birmingham, Alabama, from a prison in Peru on Thursday for arraignment in federal court in northern Alabama. The Dutch national is […]

By Antony Paone and Geert De Clercq ANNECY, France (Reuters) -Two toddlers gravely wounded by a knifeman in the French mountain town of Annecy were in a stable condition on Friday and doctors are optimistic for their recovery, President Emmanuel Macron said. Well-wishers laid flowers on Friday at the playground where the suspect, said by the government to be a 31-year-old Syrian refugee, struck on Thursday morning, apparently targetting young […]

CARACAS (Reuters) – The International Criminal Court (ICC) has opened an office in Venezuela, prosecutor Karim Khan said on Friday following a meeting with the country’s President Nicolas Maduro. The ICC is investigating Venezuela for possible crimes against humanity. With the agreement, the ICC hopes to work “more closely” with Venezuela, and to help in the implementation of judicial reforms, guaranteeing “more justice” in the South American country, Khan said […]