Asian shares looked set to rise on Monday following significant gains stateside, which saw major U.S. indexes touch record highs in the last session. U.S. stocks were given a lift on Friday on the back of expectation-topping corporate results. As of Friday, 82 percent of companies that have announced fourth-quarter earnings have beaten expectations, according […]
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Russian opposition leader Navalny has been released from custody, his lawyer says
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was released from police custody late on Sunday after a brief appearance at a rally in Moscow calling for the boycott of a March presidential election that he said would be a rigged. Navalny’s lawyer, Olga Mikhailova, told Reuters that her client had been released without charge but would have […]
Read morePresident Donald Trump‘s massive infrastructure package just hit a major roadblock. Prominent Republican lawmakers are already coming out against raising the federal gas tax to pay for the president’s promised $1 trillion investment in infrastructure. Speaking on Saturday night at a private donor retreat here hosted by billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch, Senate Majority […]
Read moreThe real Jessica Rychly is a Minnesota teenager with a broad smile and wavy hair. She likes reading and the rapper Post Malone. When she goes on Facebook or Twitter, she sometimes muses about being bored or trades jokes with friends. Occasionally, like many teenagers, she posts a duck-face selfie. But on Twitter, there is […]
Read moreRoger Fenton | Hulton Archive | Getty Images A stereoscopic card depicting a still life with fruit and flowers, circa 1865. “Through the ages we’ve watched it develop. Disney filmed in 360-video very early. It takes you on a tour across America, which is amazing to view.” Lucas Studios points to 2012 as the turning […]
Read moreIngvar Kamprad, the IKEA founder who turned a small-scale mail order business into a global furniture empire, has died at 91, the company said Sunday. IKEA Sverige, the chain’s Swedish unit, said on Twitter that Kamprad died Saturday at his home in Smaland, Sweden. “He will be much missed and warmly remembered by his family […]
Read moreHundreds of supporters of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny began a nationwide day of protest against the authorities on Sunday, calling on voters to boycott what they said was a rigged presidential election on March 18. Beneath bright blue skies, hundreds of young people gathered in the main square of the port of Vladivostok in […]
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Russian police reportedly force their way into opposition leader Navalny's office
Russian police forced their way into the Moscow office of opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Sunday and started questioning people, images broadcast online by Navalny’s supporters showed. Roman Rubanov, a Navalny supporter, wrote on social media that the police said they were looking into reports that there was a bomb in the office, something he […]
Read moreTokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck said on Sunday it would return about 46.3 billion yen ($425 million) of the virtual money it lost to hackers two days ago in one of the biggest-ever thefts of digital money. That amounts to nearly 90 percent of the 58 billion yen worth of NEM coins the company lost in […]
Read moreChina’s Sina Weibo was ordered to move several portals offline for a week after spreading obscene and wrongly oriented content, the country’s internet watchdog said. The government has been tightening controls over internet content as part of efforts to maintain “social stability,” taking on “vulgar” and pornographic content as well as the unauthorized dissemination of […]
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