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Silicon Valley tech giants and others who together process more than 13 billion financial transactions annually through digital wallets and payment apps will be subject to government supervision, the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said. The new rule finalized on Thursday will bring a burgeoning consumer service under the same scrutiny faced by banks while helping protect the privacy of vast amounts of consumer data and preventing fraud and the illegal closure of their accounts, the agency said. The regulations, first proposed a year ago to govern digital services such as Apple Wallet, Google Pay and Venmo, come as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to make far-reaching changes to federal regulators' conduct when he takes office next year, which could cast doubt on the rule's future.
Taiwan's government said on Thursday that the son of jailed former senior Chinese leader Bo Xilai was visiting the island for personal reasons after marrying a Taiwan citizen, a rare trip for someone linked to China's political elite. Bo, once considered a contender for China's top leadership, was jailed for life in 2013 after being found guilty of corruption and abuse of power in a dramatic fall from grace linked to the killing of British businessman Neil Heywood. Bo's wife was found guilty of murdering Heywood and is also in jail in China.
It's an enormous price to pay for a little cup of coffee, but the man behind the pitch promises it won't leave a bitter taste behind as it comes with the sweetner of a share of a dairy farm. A Scottish dairy is offering what it bills as the U.K.'s most expensive cup o' joe: 272 British pounds ($344) for a flat white — a double shot of espresso topped with a layer of steamed milk and a fleeting work of foam art. The costly cup is actually a perk for purchasing shares in Mossgiel Organic Dairy's crowdfunding campaign to enlarge its sustainable operation and produce more milk.
Russia needs North Korean troops and weapons for its war in Ukraine. Vladimir Putin sent dozens of wild animals as a thank you 'gift.'
Ukraine says Russia launched an intercontinental ballistic missile overnight targeting Dnipro city in the central-east of the country, which, if confirmed, would be the first time Moscow has used such a missile in the war. In a statement Thursday on the Telegram messaging app, Ukraine's air force did not specify the exact type of missile, but said it was launched from Russia’s Astrakhan region, which borders the Caspian Sea. It said an intercontinental ballistic missile was fired at Dnipro city along with eight other missiles, and that the Ukrainian military shot down six of them.
El Hierro, a small island in the Atlantic Ocean, is Europe's latest frontline in the struggle to cut irregular migration. Nearly twice as many migrants as residents have landed this year on the southernmost of Spain's Canary Islands. Intended for the island's population of 11,400, the hospital's 31 regular beds are now sheltering people escaping jihadist violence and economic troubles in Mali, as well as upheaval and poverty in Senegal and Morocco.
Kenya's government has said it was investigating how a prominent Ugandan opposition leader was spirited out of Nairobi this week, amid growing criticism that it had failed to protect foreign dissidents on its soil. Uganda's government spokesperson said on Wednesday it did not carry out abductions and that arrests abroad were done in collaboration with host countries. However in a television interview on Wednesday evening, Korir Sing'oei, principal secretary at Kenya's foreign ministry, said Besigye's detention - which he referred to as an abduction - was "not the act of the Kenyan government".
A Tennessee man found guilty of assaulting a police officer during the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack was convicted in a separate case on Wednesday for conspiring to murder FBI agents involved in the investigation into his role in the assault on the Capitol, according to the Justice Department.
Investors are ramping up bets that Trump 2.0 will loosen the federal government’s grip over mortgage giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, ending one of the oldest fights on Wall Street.
Four foreign tourists have died after a suspected mass methanol poisoning from drinking tainted alcohol at a backpacker hotspot in Laos, Western government officials and media said Thursday.Two Danish citizens and an American had also died, officials said, after what media said was a night out in Vang Vieng where they drank possibly tainted alcohol.
India's Adani Group on Thursday called US charges that their billionaire tycoon founder Gautam Adani had paid more than $250 million in bribes "baseless", as the opposition leader demanded his arrest."We demand that Adani be immediately arrested.
British politician John Prescott, a pugnacious and personable former merchant seaman who rose to the post of deputy prime minister in Tony Blair's Labour government, has died at age 86. The family said Prescott had “spent his life trying to improve the lives of others, fighting for social justice and protecting the environment.” For a decade, Prescott brought grit, humor and working-class authenticity to the government of the young, polished Blair, who became prime minister in 1997.
Dozens of people were killed or unaccounted for after Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip, a hospital director and the civil defence agency said Thursday.One strike on a residential area near the Kamal Adwan hospital in the territory left "dozens of people" dead or missing, the facility's director Hossam Abu Safiya told AFP. The process of retrieving the bodies and wounded continues, he said, adding: "Bodies arrive at the hospital in pieces."
Taiwan is not involved in military assistance for Ukraine as it is "too sensitive" but would like to establish a representative office in the country, Taiwan Deputy Foreign Minister Francois Wu said. Taiwan has offered strong moral support to Ukraine since Russia's invasion two years ago, seeing parallels with the threat Taipei says it faces from its neighbour China, which views the democratically governed island as its own territory, a claim Taiwan's government rejects.
At a bear sanctuary in the heart of Romania's Carpathians, several cubs believed to have been orphaned have just arrived.The sanctuary believes there are more appropriate solutions to managing the bear population than simply removing them from the wild.
A fresh draft of a climate pact unveiled Thursday at COP29 failed to break an impasse over money, with time running out for nations to reach a long-sought trillion-dollar finance agreement.The latest draft recognises that developing countries need a commitment of at least "USD [X] trillion" per year, leaving out the crucial exact figure sought in Baku.
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