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NIAMEY (Reuters) -The military junta that seized power in Niger detained three more senior politicians from the ousted government on Monday, their party said, widening arrests in defiance of international calls to restore democratic rule. As turmoil from the takeover spread from the streets to the markets, sources said the regional central bank had cancelled Niger’s planned 30 billion CFA ($51 million) bond issuance, scheduled for Monday in the West […]

(Reuters) – The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday said it has charged Youtuber Richard Heart and three of his entities with conducting unregistered offerings of crypto asset securities that raised more than $1 billion and misappropriating millions of dollars of investor funds. The SEC charged Heart and his PulseChain entity with fraud for misappropriating at least $12 million of offering proceeds to purchase luxury goods including sports cars, […]

By Mykhailo Moskalenko KRYVYI RIH, Ukraine (Reuters) -A Russian missile strike on the southern Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih on Monday killed at least six people, including a 10-year-old girl and her mother, and wounded dozens of others, Ukrainian officials said. A video posted by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy showed smoke billowing from a gaping hole smashed in the side of a nine-storey residential building, and another four-storey building almost levelled. […]

(Reuters) – The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday said it has charged Youtuber Richard Heart and three of his entities with conducting unregistered offerings of crypto asset securities that raised more than $1 billion and misappropriating millions of dollars of investor funds. The SEC charged Heart and his PulseChain entity with fraud for misappropriating at least $12 million of offering proceeds to purchase luxury goods including sports cars, […]

By Jack Queen MIAMI (Reuters) -An aide to former U.S. President Donald Trump appeared in Miami federal court on Monday to face charges he tried to help the former president hide secret documents taken upon leaving office. Carlos De Oliveira, the property manager of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, did not enter a plea as he has yet to obtain local counsel. A judge scheduled his arraignment for […]

(Reuters) -Cannabis producers Cresco Labs and Columbia Care Inc have mutually terminated their $2 billion merger announced in March last year, the companies said on Monday. The deal was seen as a bet on a U.S. pot industry boom, and executives then said the combined entity had the potential to be a brand as big as Coca-Cola or Johnnie Walker, with the merger helping it dominate a market likely to […]

By Paritosh Bansal (Reuters) – Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund Temasek invested the smallest amount since 2019 during its last fiscal year, as it waited for when pricing got more to its liking. Now, it’s starting to see what it likes. The S$382 billion ($287 billion) fund is seeing more investment opportunities. It invested in payment processor Stripe in March after passing on earlier fundraising rounds due to high valuation, said […]

By Moussa Aksar and Boureima Balima NIAMEY (Reuters) – In 2011, after two decades climbing the ranks of Niger’s army, Abdourahamane Tiani was handed one of the military’s most prized appointments: the head of an elite unit set up to protect the president. Last week, Tiani, a general, used his position and manpower to do the opposite. He imprisoned President Mohamed Bazoum in the presidential palace and appeared on state […]

By Jody Godoy (Reuters) – A Texas judge on Monday ruled that many U.S. lenders need not comply with a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) mandate to gather demographic data on small business borrowers while the U.S. Supreme Court weighs the agency’s funding. The Texas Bankers Association (TBA), American Bankers Association (ABA) and a small Texas bank sued in April, saying the CFPB had no authority to issue the rule […]