By Tatiana Gomozova and Filipp Lebedev RYAZAN, Russia (Reuters) -A Russian court on Thursday ordered U.S. citizen Sarah Krivanek to be detained for 30 days before being deported to the United States in a case where she was imprisoned for almost 11 mont…
Iran sets up meeting on IAEA inquiry as diplomatic clash looms
By Francois Murphy VIENNA (Reuters) -Iran has agreed to a visit by the U.N. nuclear watchdog this month to start giving answers the agency and its 35-nation board have long called for on the origin of uranium particles found at three sites, an IAEA rep…
Petra Diamonds’ Tanzania mine ops suspended for three months
(Reuters) – Petra Diamonds has suspended operations at its Williamson mine in Tanzania for up to three months after a wall of the tailings dam at the site was breached earlier this week, the company said on Thursday. Petra Diamonds, which operates thre…
Exclusive-Behind FTX’s fall, battling billionaires and a failed bid to save crypto
By Angus Berwick and Tom Wilson (Reuters) – On Tuesday morning, Sam Bankman-Fried, owner of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, caught his employees off-guard with a somber message. “I’m sorry,” he told them. “I fucked up.” The reason for the mea culpa: His a…
European stocks near two-month highs as U.S. inflation cools
By Shreyashi Sanyal and Ankika Biswas (Reuters) -European shares reversed course to touch near two-month highs on Thursday as U.S consumer prices increased less than expected, bolstering hopes of less aggressive interest rate hikes from the Federal Res…
Hungary offers loans to companies as part of efforts to avoid recession
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary will offer large and medium-sized companies 200 billion forints ($494.7 million) of loan guarantees and reduced rate loans in an effort to avoid recession, Minister for Economic Development Marton Nagy said on Thursday. Wit…
Deutsche Telekom raises guidance after bumper Q3
(Refiling to fix typographical error in Deutsche Telekom chair’s surname) By Paul Carrel and Martin Coulter BERLIN (Reuters) -Deutsche Telekom on Thursday raised its annual earnings forecast for the third time this year after its quarterly profit beat …
Dollar slides, CPI report suggests Fed could slow pace of rate hikes
By Herbert Lash NEW YORK (Reuters) – The dollar fell sharply on Thursday after U.S. consumer prices rose less than expected in October and suggested underlying inflation has peaked, data that markets cheered as it may allow the Federal Reserve to slow …
Analysis-FTX debacle sparks investor rethink of battered crypto market
By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss and Elizabeth Howcroft NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) – With major cryptocurrency exchange FTX on the brink of collapse, some investors are beginning to question the viability of a sector already bruised by the bitcoin bubble bur…
Lawyer says Egypt prosecutor gives him permission to visit activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah in jail – Twitter
DUBAI (Reuters) – A member of the defence team of Egyptian-British hunger striker Alaa Abd el-Fattah tweeted on Thursday that he had been granted permission by Egypt’s state prosecutor to visit him in prison. Khaled Ali, a member of the defence team, s…