US COURT WILL UNSEAL DOCUMENTS NAMING JEFFREY EPSTEIN’S ASSOCIATES

Sun 31 December 2023: Hundreds of sealed court filings pertaining to the late sex-offender Jeffrey Epstein are set to be made public this week, and several prominent names — including Britain’s Prince Andrew and former President Bill Clinton — are expected to appear in the documents.   Personal flight logs kept by one of Epstein’s […]

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US: GROWTH OF RETAIL SALES DOWN TO 3.1 PCT THIS HOLIDAY SEASON

Sat 30 December 2023: U.S. retail sales excluding automobiles grew 3.1 percent year on year in the period from Nov. 1 to Dec. 24, 2023, according to preliminary data in the latest Mastercard Spending Pulse report issued on Tuesday. By contrast, the United States recorded 7.6 percent of year-on-year expansion in the same period of […]

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UK: ONLY ONE IN TWENTY END IN CHARGES OR SUMMONSES DESPITE VEHICLE CRIMES RISE

Sat 30 December 2023: Only one in 20 vehicle crimes end in a charge or summons despite soaring numbers of offences, figures suggested. Charge rates for car thefts, stealing from a vehicle and interference with a vehicle dropped from almost eight percent in 2019 to just 5.08 percent last year, The Daily Mail reported. This […]

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RUSSIA WARNS WEST AGAINST PLANNING TO SEIZE ITS FROZEN FUNDS THROUGH ‘PSEUDO-LEGAL’ SYSTEM

Sat 30 December 2023: Russia has devised an alternate plan to deal with the situation if the West tries to confiscate its frozen money through a “pseudo-legal” system that would violate the basic parameters of the international economy, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday, without disclosing countermeasures.   “No US legal theory” concerning the confiscation […]

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TURKEY SUPER CUP FINAL IN SAUDI ARABIA CALLED OFF AMID ATATURK T-SHIRT ROW

Sat 30 December 2023: The Turkish Super Cup final between Galatasaray and Fenerbahce scheduled to be played in Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh was called off over an apparent disagreement about the players’ jerseys. The Turkish Football Federation (TFF) and the two teams – who returned to Istanbul on Saturday after Friday’s postponed match – said […]

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GOOGLE AGREES TO SETTLE $5BN LAWSUIT CLAIMING IT SECRETLY TRACKED USERS

Sat 30 December 2023: Google has agreed to settle a lawsuit claiming it secretly tracked the internet use of millions of people who thought they were doing their browsing privately. US district judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland, California, put a scheduled trial in the proposed class action, which was due to begin in February, on […]

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MUSK’S X LOSES COURT BID TO BLOCK CALIFORNIA CONTENT MODERATION LAW

Fri 29 December 2023: The attempt by Elon Musk’s X to overturn a California law requiring social media companies to disclose to the public the methods they use for content moderation on their platforms has failed. In September, X filed a lawsuit against the state of California, claiming that the new legislation violates upon the […]

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