kslmadmin

By Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) -High winds hit power lines in Japan’s popular tourist destination Okinawa, knocking out electricity to more than 200,000 households on Wednesday morning, as powerful and slow-moving typhoon Khanun neared the country’s southwestern islands. So far there has been one death reported and 11 people injured. A man was crushed under a collapsed garage and went into cardiac arrest, according to the Fire and Disaster Management […]

(Reuters) – Binance users traded $90 billion of cryptocurrency related assets in a single month in China, where cryptocurrency trading has been illegal since 2021, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday citing internal figures and current and former employees of the exchange. The transactions made China Binance’s biggest market by far, accounting for 20% of volume worldwide, excluding trades made by a subset of very large traders, the WSJ […]

(Reuters) – The wages agency of the Australian state of Victoria on Wednesday said it has filed more than 1,000 charges against top grocer Woolworths Group, alleging underpaying A$1 million ($659,000.00) in long-service leaves to over 1,200 former employees. ($1 = 1.5175 Australian dollars) (Reporting by Poonam Behura in Bengaluru; Editing by Sonia Cheema) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

By Sarah N. Lynch, Jacqueline Thomsen and Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Donald Trump was indicted on Tuesday for his wide-ranging attempts to overturn the 2020 election, the third time in four months that the former U.S. president has been criminally charged even as he campaigns to regain the presidency next year. The four-count, 45-page indictment charges Republican Trump with conspiring to defraud the U.S. by preventing Congress from certifying Democrat […]

By Arathy Somasekhar and Trixie Yap SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Oil prices surged by almost 1% on Wednesday, trading near their highest since April, as crude and fuel products inventory data showing robust demand from the world’s biggest fuel consumer, the U.S., offset demand concerns elsewhere. Brent crude futures for October rose 76 cents, or 0.90%, to $85.67 a barrel at 0407 GMT. Likewise, U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude for September climbed […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday rejected an invitation from Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to discuss the state’s new Black history curriculum and said she will not be debating the topic of slavery with him. DeSantis, who is running for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, on Monday invited Harris to Florida to discuss the state’s new Black history curriculum after the vice president criticized it for backing […]

ATP roundup: Frances Tiafoe advances in Washington SOURCE: FIELD LEVEL MEDIA United States countrymen Frances Tiafoe and Brandon Nakashima showed off their tiebreaker prowess on Tuesday at the Mubadala Citi DC Open, winning their matches by taking back-to-back tiebreakers in Washington. Tiafoe, the second seed, got past Russia’s Aslan Karatsev 7-6 (5), 7-6 (5) in second-round action. Neither player broke serve in the match, with Tiafoe saving four break points […]

ATP roundup: Frances Tiafoe advances in Washington SOURCE: FIELD LEVEL MEDIA United States countrymen Frances Tiafoe and Brandon Nakashima showed off their tiebreaker prowess on Tuesday at the Mubadala Citi DC Open, winning their matches by taking back-to-back tiebreakers in Washington. Tiafoe, the second seed, got past Russia’s Aslan Karatsev 7-6 (5), 7-6 (5) in second-round action. Neither player broke serve in the match, with Tiafoe saving four break points […]

By Clare Jim and Ziyi Tang HONG KONG/BEIJING (Reuters) – Some Chinese city governments have made it harder for developers to access tens of billions of dollars from property sales held in escrow accounts, people familiar with the matter said, raising risks the cash-strapped companies will be squeezed even more. The moves are aimed at ensuring the completion of more unfinished projects at the city level, they said, at a […]