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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -At least four Nigerians were killed in an attack on a convoy of two U.S. government vehicles in Nigeria on Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said, adding that the attack did not appear to be directed at the U.S. mission there. In a statement on Wednesday, Blinken said the U.S. mission and its Nigerian counterparts were working to ascertain the location and condition of those unaccounted […]

By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s Prince Harry, his wife Meghan and her mother were involved in a “near catastrophic car chase” involving paparazzi photographers after they attended an awards ceremony in New York, a spokesperson for the prince said on Wednesday. The incident involved half a dozen cars with blacked out windows, driving dangerously and putting the lives of the couple, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, and Meghan’s […]

By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Rachael Rollins, the top federal prosecutor in Massachusetts, improperly used her U.S. Justice Department position to meddle in a local district attorney election by leaking to newspapers dirt about a political rival – one of many ethics violations cited in two reports by government investigators on Wednesday. The reports by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz and the independent U.S. Office of Special Counsel […]

DUBAI (Reuters) – A Dubai court has rejected an appeal by a British citizen charged with defrauding Danish tax authorities and ordered him to pay more than $1 billion to Denmark, according to a court document dated Tuesday and seen by Reuters. A ruling issued by the Dubai Court of Cassation, its highest court, says Sanjay Shah must repay 4.643 billion dirhams ($1.3 billion) plus 5% interest to Denmark. Shah’s […]

By Luc Cohen and Brendan O’Brien NEW YORK (Reuters) -The mother of a New Yorker killed in 2017 when a man driving a truck mowed down cyclists and pedestrians on a crowded Manhattan bike path told a hushed courtroom on Wednesday that no punishment meted out to the attacker could compare to her pain. “This evil murderer has destroyed so many lives,” Monica Missio, the mother of victim Nicholas Cleves, […]

By Muvija M LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s King Charles greeted celebrity ambassadors of his youth charity, including veteran musician Nile Rodgers, along with the charity’s award winners on Wednesday in the first reception at Buckingham Palace since his coronation. Dressed in a crisp, navy blue suit, Charles, who was crowned on May 6 in one of the country’s biggest ceremonial events in decades, received the winners at the circular Bow […]

By Dietrich Knauth NEW YORK (Reuters) – Crypto lender Voyager Digital said Wednesday that customers will recover about 35% of their cryptocurrency deposits as the company winds down its operations after a failed buyout attempt by crypto exchange Binance.US. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Michael Wiles approved Voyager’s proposed liquidation plan at a court hearing in Manhattan on Wednesday, allowing the company to return about $1.33 billion in crypto assets to customers […]

By Anna Tong (Reuters) – The swift growth of artificial intelligence technology could put the future of humanity at risk, according to most Americans surveyed in a Reuters/Ipsos poll published on Wednesday. More than two-thirds of Americans are concerned about the negative effects of AI and 61% believe it could threaten civilization. Since OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot became the fastest growing application of all time, the widespread integration of AI into […]

By Foo Yun Chee and Padraic Halpin (Reuters) – Meta Platforms Inc is set to face a record European Union privacy fine related to data transfer of Facebook’s EU users to U.S. servers for failing to comply with a warning by a top EU court, two sources familiar with the matter said. The penalty will be higher than the previous record 746 million euros ($821.20 million) fine for Amazon.com Inc, […]