Crypto platform Binance intends to stay in the European Union and will make a fresh push for permission to operate there, a senior executive told Reuters, after its application under a new licence regime failed, threatening access for millions of users.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s enforcement division is probing funds typically used by private equity firms and other money managers to hold on to assets they either cannot or do not wish to sell, as the agency explores potential issues in private markets, said three people familiar with the matter.
Wall Street’s major indexes rose with broad-based gains on Wednesday after two straight sessions of declines, as a sharp retreat in oil prices aided sentiment while investors awaited Micron’s earnings.
President Donald Trump opens a 16-day celebration of the United States’ 250th anniversary with a political rally on Wednesday, the start of festivities shaped by controversy over his polarizing approach to governing and efforts to remake Washington.
Ships have begun sailing through the Strait of Hormuz under a new scheme by the U.N.’s shipping agency to evacuate vessels trapped there by the conflict, a spokesperson said on Wednesday.
The biggest casualty of the U.S.-Iran deal may not be Israel’s Iran strategy, but the political brand Benjamin Netanyahu spent decades constructing as the Israeli leader who could uniquely bend Washington to his will on Iran, analysts, former U.S. officials and diplomats say.
Israel’s defence minister said on Wednesday Israeli troops will not withdraw from southern Lebanon, highlighting a hurdle to Iran-U.S. peace talks, as the top U.S. diplomat tours the Middle East to win over allies sceptical about a proposed deal.
The package of voting restrictions has aggravated Republican party fissures.
Keiko Fujimori’s victory in her fourth bid for Peru’s presidency returns a polarizing political dynasty to power, reviving deep divisions that have long split the South American country.
Al-Nazir Al-Sadig sought safety in Egypt from the civil war in Sudan. Instead, the 18-year-old died of pneumonia after more than three weeks in a squalid Cairo jail, where he had suffered beatings and extortion at the hands of other inmates, his friends and relatives said.