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Indian national, who worked as a journalist here, tragically lost his life in a fire incident in an apartment building in Manhattan. Fazil Khan was killed in the fire that broke out in a six-story residential building at 2 St. Nicholas Place in Harlem, Manhattan that left about 17 other people injured. The New York City Fire Department said that its marshals have determined that the «devastating» fire was caused by a lithium-ion battery.

By Jonathan Stempel

(Reuters) — A court in Montenegro on Wednesday ruled that crypto entrepreneur and Terraforms Labs co-founder Do Kwon should be extradited to the United States, rather than to his home country South Korea, to stand trial on fraud charges, the Wall Street Journal reported.

By Jonathan Stempel

Richard Verma in Delhi on Tuesday said that America will stay engaged with the Indian government on the issue of the alleged bid to assassinate Khalistterrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun in the United States. «I know we raised our concerns with the Government of India. There is a committee of inquiry looking into the matter, and we will stay engaged with the government and look forward to their findings. And they've taken it very seriously, and we're grateful for that,» Verma said. He made the remarks at the event titled 'The Long View from DC: The India-US Partnership' hosted by the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) in Delhi. His statement comes after the US Justice Department unsealed an indictment against an Indian national for his alleged involvement in the foiled plot to assassinate Pannun.

On the witness stand last year, Donald Trump proclaimed: “I have a lot of cash.”

(This Feb. 16 story has been refiled to fix a typo in 'blank-check' in paragraph 22)

Putin prefers Biden's win for 2nd term over Trump, says ‘more experienced and…’ The fine was mostly based on the $168 million Trump saved by getting lower interest rates on four loans by lying about his wealth. It also includes the $127 million profit from the Old Post Office hotel deal in Washington and $60 million from the sale of Ferry Point golf course in New York, which the state says he wouldn’t have been able to purchase without inflating the value of his assets.

Donald Trump and his real estate company suffered a major defeat in New York’s civil fraud suit over his inflated asset valuations, after a judge barred the former president from running any business in the state for three years and ordered the return of $364 million in illegal profits. 

Blockchain and digital asset trade association, the Chamber of Digital Commerce (CDC), filed an amicus curiae brief on February 9 in support of French design house Hermès in the company’s landmark MetaBirkins case.

By Dietrich Knauth

New York: The U.S. government said it is spending more than $7 million a year to maintain a superyacht it seized from a sanctioned Russian oligarch, and urged a judge to let it auction the vessel before a dispute over its ownership is resolved. Authorities in Fiji seized the 348-foot (106-meter), $300 million Amadea in May 2022, pursuant to a U.S.

Canada's outgoing National Security Advisor Jody Thomas on Saturday emphasised that India is cooperating in the investigation of the killing of India-designated terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, and called the changing relationship an «evolution», as reported by Canada-based CTV News. Thomas said that Canada has «made advancements in that relationship.» In an interview with CTV's Question Period host Vassy Kapelos which airs this Sunday, Thomas said that her discussions with her Indian counterpart have been fruitful.

Billionaire Joe Lewis, who has connections to FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, pleaded guilty to insider trading charges in Manhattan federal court on Wednesday.

The controversial images portray Taylor Swift in explicit poses, adorned in the colors and attire of the Kansas City Chiefs. Notably, several of these images include fictional characters, further intensifying the unsettling nature of this misuse of artificial intelligence.

A performer who appeared naked in a show by world-renowned performance artist Marina Abramovic is suing New York City’s Museum of Modern Art, saying it failed to take action after he was sexually assaulted multiple times by attendees during performance...

British billionaire Joe Lewis has pleaded guilty to insider trading and conspiracy charges in New York

On the edge of Lago Escondido in Argentina’s northern Patagonia, at the foot of snow-capped mountains, lies British billionaire Joe Lewis’ sprawling property. He frequently uses the luxurious estate to entertain public officials and employees handpicked from the top ranks of Lewis’ investment firm and other companies that the 86-year-old has an interest in.

By Jonathan Stempel

Federal prosecutors are expanding their investigation into a bribery scheme involving two former U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration supervisors, turning their attention to two Miami defense attorneys suspected of profiting from repeated leaks of conf...

NEW YORK (Reuters) — The trial in writer E. Jean Carroll's latest civil case against Donald Trump resumes on Monday, with the prospect that the former U.S. president may for the first time testify in open court in the defamation case.