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Archegos Capital Management founder Sung Kook “Bill” Hwang has been convicted of fraud and other charges by a jury in a Manhattan federal court at a criminal trial in which prosecutors accused him of market manipulation ahead of the 2021 collapse of his $36bn private investment firm. On Wednesday, the jury, which began deliberations on Tuesday, found Hwang guilty on 10 of 11 criminal counts, and Patrick Halligan, his Archegos deputy and co-defendant, guilty on all three counts he faced. Hwang and Halligan sat flanked by their lawyers as the verdict was read by a soft-spoken foreperson. United States District…

The Israeli military has ordered all Palestinians to leave Gaza City and head south, as it presses ahead with a fresh offensive across the north, south and centre of the Gaza Strip that has killed dozens of people over the past 48 hours. Leaflets dropped from the air on Wednesday urged “everyone in Gaza City” to leave and to take “safe routes” south towards Deir el-Balah and az-Zawayda. Gaza’s interior ministry has called on residents in Gaza City to refrain from following Israeli evacuation orders, saying the instructions are a part of the Israeli army’s psychological warfare against Palestinians. The…

The US judge said the federal law governing benefit plans did not cover the former employees’ claims.Elon Musk has won dismissal of a lawsuit claiming he refused to pay at least $500m of severance to thousands of Twitter employees he fired in mass layoffs after buying the social media company now known as X. United States District Judge Trina Thompson in San Francisco, California ruled on Tuesday that the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) governing benefit plans did not cover the former employees’ claims, and therefore she lacked jurisdiction. The case is one of many accusing Musk of reneging…

The woman was charged with collaborating with ISIL and keeping kidnapped Yazidi women in her home in Mosul.An Iraqi court has sentenced a widow of late ISIL (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to death for her role in the armed group and for detaining Yazidi women, the judiciary has announced. The court in west Baghdad handed down the sentence to the woman, who is in custody, under Iraq’s anti-terrorism law, according to a statement on Wednesday from Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council. She was accused of collaborating with ISIL and using her home in Mosul to hold kidnapped Yazidi women who…

NewsFeedA former Palestinian bodybuilder who came out of an Israeli prison frail and in poor health after months without charge says he was tortured and abused, and has compared Israeli prisons to the US’s notorious Guantanamo Bay prison.Published On 10 Jul 202410 Jul 2024 Source link

Rania traces stars at the Oukaimeden observatory in Morocco’s mountains and shares their beauty with villagers below.The stars in the night skies above Oukaimeden, a remote village in the mountains of Morocco, are a stunning sight to behold. Rania Abdelmoutalib is a PhD student and member of Stargazers of Marrakesh, who volunteers at the Oukaimeden Observatory, where she tracks stars with the giant telescopes poised on the ancient mountains. Each star has a story, a past. She studies and celebrates the heavens, and shares the joys of understanding stars with the villagers who visit the observatory, exploring parallels between events…

For months, Gaza has been teetering on the verge of famine. But several United Nations (UN) human rights experts are now warning that there is “no doubt” famine already exists across the Strip. “Israel’s intentional and targeted starvation campaign against the Palestinian people is a form of genocidal violence and has resulted in famine across all of Gaza,” 10 independent UN experts, including the special rapporteur on the right to food and the special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory, said in a statement on Tuesday. They accused Israel of fomenting conditions which have led to starvation…

Israel’s Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli publicly supported far-right candidate Marine Le Pen before France’s parliamentary vote.French President Emmanuel Macron has denounced “unacceptable” comments made by an Israel minister who publicly promoted far-right candidate Marine Le Pen before France’s parliamentary elections. Israeli news outlets reported Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli said the National Rally party leader would be “excellent for Israel”. An angry Macron called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to complain about the comments. “I think I and Netanyahu are of the same opinion. It’s not a personal matter,” Chilkli was quoted as saying. Support for Le Pen is…

An Israeli air attack on a school housing displaced Palestinians in southern Gaza has killed at least 30 people in the fourth such attack in as many days. The attack in the town of Abbasan, east of Khan Younis, hit the entrance of al-Awdah school, wounding at least 53 people. Palestinian medics said most of the victims were women and children. The Israeli military said it carried out the strike on Tuesday as it was targeting a “terrorist from Hamas’s military wing” near the school. It acknowledged carrying out three other strikes since Saturday on Gaza schools being used as…

NewsFeedVideos show how Israeli forces ripped up roads and bulldozed shops and homes in their latest raid in the occupied West Bank. Palestinian officials said the raid caused “massive and unprecedented destruction.”Published On 10 Jul 202410 Jul 2024 Source link