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By Andrew Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) -Facing up to a quarter of a century in jail on treason charges he denies, Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza told a Moscow court on Monday his trial recalled one of Josef Stalin’s show trials in the 1930s and said he had done nothing wrong. Kara-Murza, 41, a father of three and former journalist who holds Russian and British passports, has spent years as a politician […]

By Andrew Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) -Facing up to a quarter of a century in jail on treason charges he denies, Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza told a Moscow court on Monday his trial recalled one of Josef Stalin’s show trials in the 1930s and said he had done nothing wrong. Kara-Murza, 41, a father of three and former journalist who holds Russian and British passports, has spent years as a politician […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Trade Commission opened a new front in its fight against the Intercontinental Exchange deal to buy Black Knight by asking a federal court for a preliminary injunction to halt the deal while its internal administrative process moves forward. The agency on March 9 said it would seek to stop New York Stock Exchange parent Intercontinental Exchange from acquiring mortgage data vendor Black Knight in […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Trade Commission opened a new front in its fight against the Intercontinental Exchange deal to buy Black Knight by asking a federal court for a preliminary injunction to halt the deal while its internal administrative process moves forward. The agency on March 9 said it would seek to stop New York Stock Exchange parent Intercontinental Exchange from acquiring mortgage data vendor Black Knight in […]

By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) -A Nashville-area county council meeting on Monday may vote to return to the statehouse one of two Democratic Tennessee lawmakers who were expelled from the chamber last week after participating in a gun control protest. Republicans who control the state House of Representatives on Thursday voted to kick out Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, two Black men who recently joined the legislature after they said the […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Trade Commission opened a new front in its fight against the Intercontinental Exchange deal to buy Black Knight by asking a federal court for a preliminary injunction to halt the deal while its internal administrative process moves forward. The agency said on March 9 it would seek to stop the New York Stock Exchange parent Intercontinental Exchange from acquiring mortgage data vendor Black Knight […]

PARIS (Reuters) -French rescue workers have found a fifth body in the rubble of buildings in the southern city of Marseille that collapsed following an explosion, the city’s mayor said on Monday. Authorities had said earlier that they had identified eight people missing in the wake of Sunday’s explosion, which destroyed two residential buildings and caused a third to partially collapse. The cause of the blast is still unknown. The […]

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Two Catholic Relief Services (CRS) workers were shot and killed on Sunday in Ethiopia’s Amhara region, the charity said, amid violent anti-government protests triggered by a federal government decision to disband regional special forces units. CRS director of communications Kim Pozniak said on Monday that the incident occurred in the town of Kobo, where residents reported heavy artillery fire on Sunday, but did not say whether the […]

ANKARA (Reuters) – The foreign ministers of Turkey, Russia, Iran and Syria may hold consultations in early May as part of Russia’s attempt to help broker a rapprochement between the Turkish and Syrian governments, Turkey’ foreign minister said on Monday. NATO alliance member Turkey has been a major backer of the political and armed opposition to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during a 12-year civil war, and has sent its own […]