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By Shubham Kalia and Gokul Pisharody (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors have accused FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried of witness tampering and asked a federal judge to issue an order that would bar the former billionaire and other parties from making public statements likely to interfere with a fair trial. The prosecutors wrote to U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan on Thursday referencing a New York Times article titled “Inside the Private Writings […]

By Shubham Kalia and Gokul Pisharody (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors have accused FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried of witness tampering and asked a federal judge to issue an order that would bar the former billionaire and other parties from making public statements likely to interfere with a fair trial. The prosecutors wrote to U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan on Thursday referencing a New York Times article titled “Inside the Private Writings […]

By Ian Ransom MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Canada coach Bev Priestman was deflated by a potentially costly 0-0 draw with Nigeria in their Women’s World Cup opener on Friday but refused to point the finger at Christine Sinclair after the captain failed to score a second-half penalty. Sinclair’s weak spot kick was saved by Chiamaka Nnadozie, who dived low to her left in the 50th minute to help Nigeria, the lowest-ranked […]

By Andrew MacAskill and Elizabeth Piper LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s governing Conservatives lost two strategically important parliamentary seats on Friday but unexpectedly retained Boris Johnson’s old constituency in a setback for the opposition Labour Party. The Conservatives’ narrow victory in Johnson’s seat gave Sunak some breathing space to try to narrow Labour’s large lead in the polls by aiming to reduce high inflation and ease a cost-of-living […]

By Andrew MacAskill and Elizabeth Piper LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s governing Conservatives lost two strategically important parliamentary seats on Friday but unexpectedly retained Boris Johnson’s old constituency in a setback for the opposition Labour Party. The Conservatives’ narrow victory in Johnson’s seat gave Sunak some breathing space to try to narrow Labour’s large lead in the polls by aiming to reduce high inflation and ease a cost-of-living […]

SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean police arrested a suspect on Friday after one person died and three were wounded in a stabbing attack near a subway station in Seoul, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported. Police were still investigating the incident, Yonhap said. (Reporting by Soo-hyang Choi; Editing by Ed Davies) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

By Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) – When a U.S. ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) surfaced for a rare visit to South Korea this week it was a blunt reminder that Washington always has nuclear-tipped missiles deployed within close striking distance of North Korea, analysts said. Having nuclear weapons out of sight in the seas off the Korean Peninsula was a potentially stronger deterrent to the North, according to some analysts, than […]

By Yimou Lee TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan is investigating a potential leak of official documents including diplomatic cables and classified reports on the island’s sensitive bid to join a global trade pact, according to two officials familiar with the probe. One official said initial findings show parts of the documents, posted on online message board 8kun and reviewed by Reuters, are real while bits were forged, without giving details. A […]

By Ryan Woo and Liz Lee BEIJING (Reuters) – Beijing and other cities braced for severe flooding on Friday as summer storms rolled across many parts of China, while inland regions baked in intense heat, threatening to shrink the country’s biggest freshwater lake. Wild weather swings have gripped China since April, causing deaths, damaging infrastructure and wilting crops as well as raising fears of its ability to cope with climate […]