money Seattle shop owners close business after city council's decision to defund the police
Steepologies Tea Seattle owners Andrea and Joe Raetzer speak out.
Steepologies Tea Seattle owners Andrea and Joe Raetzer speak out.
Police in Finland said Thursday they had detained five suspects in connection with deadly violence in southeastern Nigeria and were seeking a court extension of the detensions. The police did not identify the suspects, only saying that a dual Finnish-Nigerian citizen, born in the 1980s, was under criminal investigation.
Brazilian banks' profitability improved in the first half of this year, led by digital banks, and net interest income and service revenues should continue to rise in the second half, the central bank said on Thursday. In its Financial Stability Report, the central bank noted that the return on equity (ROE) for the country's banking system rose to 15.11% by June 30, up from 14.23% at the end of December 2023. Digital banks stood out, with their ROE rising to 19.1% by the end of June - the highest among segments - from 11.45% at the end of December.
Diplomats meeting in Vienna on Thursday are to discuss a resolution condemning Iran for insufficient cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog, as Tehran warned it would swiftly respond once it passed.Araghchi had warned earlier of a "proportionate and appropriate" response by Iran if the board passes the resolution.
Scientists said Thursday they have taken the first ever close-up image of a star outside of the Milky Way, capturing a blurry shot of a dying behemoth 2,000 times bigger than the Sun.Keiichi Ohnaka, an astrophysicist at Chile's Andres Bello National University, said that "for the first time, we have succeeded in taking a zoomed-in image of a dying star".
Here are some background facts on the International Criminal Court (ICC), which has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defence chief, as well as a Hamas leader, Ibrahim Al-Masri, for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza conflict. * The court was established in 2002 to prosecute war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide and the crime of aggression when member states are unwilling or unable to do so themselves.
The leaders are accused of crimes against humanity and war crimes over the war in Gaza and the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel.
The International Criminal Court on Thursday issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence Minister Yoav Gallant, as well as Hamas's military chief Mohammed Deif.ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan in May requested the court issue arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant over alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
The outage comes on a day bitcoin, the world's largest cryptocurrency, has surged to levels to over $98,000 and pulled other crypto stocks along with it. PayPal allows its clients to buy, sell and hold cryptocurrency. Exchanges Coinbase and Kraken also posted about outages with PayPal transactions and deposit delays, respectively, on their website.
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Russia's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman was phoned during a live briefing and told not to comment on reports that Russia had fired a ballistic missile at Ukraine, according to a video of the briefing that picked up the telephone conversation. Kyiv said earlier on Thursday that Russia had launched an intercontinental ballistic missile during an attack on the city of Dnipro. Russian Telegram channels said Russia had attacked what is known in Ukraine as the missile and space rocket company Pivdenmash, which is headquartered in Dnipro.
A former Serbian government minister and 10 others were arrested Thursday over the deadly collapse of a train station roof three weeks ago in which 15 people died.Prosecutors said 11 people had been arrested including a former construction minister.
Greece’s left-wing Syriza party has lost its position as the country’s main opposition group in parliament during an intensifying leadership battle. Two members of parliament announced Thursday they were quitting the party, reducing Syriza’s number of deputies to 29 — fewer than the 31 seats held by the Panhellenic Socialist Movement, or Pasok. “My decision to become an independent lawmaker is an act of self-respect and self-worth in my political journey so far,” one of the deputies, Theodora Tzakri, said outside parliament after notifying the speaker of her decision.
Stuck in no man's land on the war-hit Lebanon-Syria border, cab driver Fadi Slika now scrapes a living ferrying passengers between two deep craters left by Israeli air strikes.The 52-year-old said she was out of work and needed to see her son, after the east Lebanon town where he lives was hit by Israeli strikes.
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Two large private equity-backed landlords discriminated against prospective tenants by relying on faulty screening systems, according to two lawsuits.
Tennessee's ban on medication and treatments for transgender youth goes before the U.S. Supreme Court on Dec. 4.
Dnipro bears the brunt of Moscow's first retaliatory strike after Ukraine fires U.S.-made missiles into Russia, and Ukraine claims Moscow may have used an ICBM.
Ghana's Asante king, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, will receive 28 historic gold ornaments and regalia this weekend, in the latest major restoration of cultural treasures to the West African country. Speaking to AFP, he described the regalia as "masterpieces of gold smithery reflecting the sophistication of Asante court governance".
Kyiv on Thursday accused Russia of launching a non-nuclear intercontinental ballistic missile at Ukraine in what would mark the first ever use of the weapon in combat and a sharp escalation of the conflict.Ukraine said the nuclear-capable missile had targeted the central city of Dnipro, and while the Kremlin declined to confirm it had launched the strike, it said it was doing everything possible to avoid a nuclear escalation.
Romanians vote in the first round of a presidential election on Sunday, with the second round due to be held on Dec. 8. There are 13 candidates vying for the presidency, whose powers include oversight of foreign policy. He is ahead in opinion surveys, with many voters attracted by his promise of stability.