OCT
18
2018

Trump threatens to cut aid to Honduras over migrants

President Donald Trump has threatened to cut financial aid to Honduras over a large group of migrants heading towards the US border.

OCT
18
2018

Colleges Are Baffled by Bitcoin Donations

The University of Puget Sound got an offer it wasn’t sure how to accept. A recent graduate had hit the jackpot and wanted to make a donation to the school. In Bitcoin.

OCT
18
2018

Poland Questions Supremacy of EU Law, Escalating Standoff

Poland’s government has asked the Constitutional Tribunal to rule whether European Union law supersedes national legislation, escalating a standoff with the bloc over the rule of law

OCT
18
2018

EU willing to extend Brexit transition, says Irish foreign minister

Simon Coveney says more time available to agree ‘alternative solution’ to border backstop

OCT
18
2018

Minnesota accuses insulin makers of deceptive drug pricing

Minnesota’s attorney general on Tuesday filed a lawsuit accusing drug manufacturers Sanofi SA, Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly and Co of deceptively raising prices for insulin.

OCT
18
2018

Queensland parliament votes to legalise abortion

Abortion will become legal until 22 weeks gestation, and thereafter with the approval of two doctors

OCT
18
2018

France says Britons could need visa to visit after no-deal Brexit

Government publishes draft bill outlining areas of concern relating to hard Brexit

OCT
17
2018

Canada kicks off muted pot party as first G7 nation to OK recreational cannabis

It marks an historic day as adult Canadians will be able to legally smoke recreational marijuana after nearly a century-long ban.

OCT
17
2018

Germany recalls 100,000 Opel vehicles as part of emissions investigation

Germany´s Transport Ministry said it would order roughly 100,000 Opel vehicles to be recalled as part of an emissions probe, after prosecutors searched the carmaker´s offices earlier in the day.

OCT
17
2018

Nomura Agrees to Pay $480 Million Over Crisis-Era Securities

A unit of Nomura Holdings Inc has agreed to pay $480 million to resolve civil claims by the U.S. government that it misled investors in marketing residential mortgage-backed securities, U.S. authorities announced Tuesday.

OCT
17
2018

Canada tariff exemptions offer auto industry relief

Canada has excluded a long list of steel and some aluminium products from its 25 percent tariff on U.S. metal, offering short-term relief to the country’s auto sector, which relies heavily on U.S.-made steel.

OCT
17
2018

U.S. judge approves SEC settlement with Tesla, Musk; shares jump

A U.S. judge on Tuesday approved a settlement between a federal regulator, Tesla Inc and its chief executive officer, Elon Musk, over his tweets promising to take the company private, signaling an end to a tumultuous period for investors.

OCT
17
2018

Macedonia lawmakers to vote on name change deal with Greece

Macedonia´s parliament on Monday (Oct 15) opened a debate on whether to approve a deal to change the country´s name, a crucial step towards settling a long-running dispute with Greece.

OCT
17
2018

Korean Air chief indicted on embezzlement, other charges: Prosecutors

Korean Air Lines Co Ltd Chairman Cho Yang-ho was indicted on Monday (Oct 15) on charges including embezzlement and breach of trust, South Korean prosecutors said, adding to a string of woes at the country´s biggest airline group.

OCT
17
2018

Ex-chief of China asset management firm prosecuted for graft

The former chairman of a Chinese state-controlled asset management firm will be prosecuted for corruption, authorities said Monday, the latest senior figure to be felled in the government´s anti-corruption dragnet.

OCT
16
2018

Audi to pay EUR800 million fine over emissions

Audi AG (NSU.XE) has agreed to pay an 800 million-euro ($925.8 million) fine handed down by German prosecutors, concluding another important probe into parent company Volkswagen AG´s VOW emissions scandal.

OCT
16
2018

Brexit talks at impasse over Irish backstop, says Downing Street

EU diplomats sceptical about claims of fresh splits on plan for avoiding hard border

OCT
16
2018

With talks deadlocked, May says Irish backstop cannot derail Brexit talks

Prime Minister Theresa May urged the European Union on Monday not to allow a stand-off over the so-called Irish backstop to derail Brexit talks, saying she believed a deal was still achievable in the coming weeks.

OCT
16
2018

Disney offers EU antitrust concessions over $71.3 billion Fox deal

Walt Disney (DIS.N) has offered concessions in an attempt to allay EU antitrust concerns over its $71.3 billion bid for Twenty-First Century Fox Inc’s (FOXA.O) entertainment assets, the European Commission said on Monday.

OCT
16
2018

UK consumers could lose EU legal rights in event of no-deal Brexit

Protections on products and services bought from EU-based traders could go, warns notice

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