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DUBLIN—Irish mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor must pay nearly 250,000 euros ($259,950) in damages for assaulting a woman in Dublin in 2018, a jury decided on Friday. The jury of eight women and four men reached its verdict after six hours and 10 minutes of deliberation. The plaintiff Nikita Hand alleged that McGregor sexually […]
TOKYO—About 6 percent of Nissan Motor staff in the United States have accepted early retirement packages, a company spokesperson said on Thursday, as part of the struggling Japanese carmaker’s plan to cut 9,000 jobs worldwide. Nissan had about 17,000 employees in the United States as of March, according to a security filing. Roughly 1,000 U.S. […]
KYIV—Russia fired a hypersonic intermediate-range ballistic missile at the Ukrainian city of Dnipro on Thursday in response to the United States and UK’s allowing Kyiv to strike Russian territory with advanced Western weapons, in a further escalation of the 33-month-old war. Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a televised address, said Moscow struck a Ukrainian military […]
Alphabet’s Google must sell its Chrome browser, share data and search results with rivals and take other measures—including possibly selling Android—to end its monopoly on online search, prosecutors argued to a judge on Wednesday. Such changes could result in Google being regulated for as many as 10 years via a committee appointed by the Washington […]
NEW YORK—Former billionaire investor Sung Kook “Bill” Hwang was sentenced to 18 years in prison on Wednesday over the collapse of Archegos Capital Management, which cost Wall Street banks more than $10 billion. Hwang was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein in Manhattan, where a jury convicted Hwang in July on 10 criminal charges […]
NEW YORK—Gautam Adani, the billionaire chair of Indian conglomerate Adani Group and one of the world’s richest people, has been indicted in New York over his role in an alleged multibillion-dollar bribery and fraud scheme, U.S. prosecutors said on Wednesday. Authorities said Adani and seven other defendants, including his nephew Sagar Adani, agreed to pay […]
WASHINGTON—The United States must address a growing public-health crisis over traffic deaths that remain significantly higher than pre-pandemic levels, the head of the National Transportation Safety Board said on Tuesday. “Unlike most developed nations, U.S. roadways have grown more deadly over the last several decades,” NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy said at a board meeting on […]
Comcast plans to divest the bulk of its once-coveted NBCUniversal cable TV assets, including MSNBC and CNBC, as the rising dominance of streaming platforms relegates legacy media businesses to the cutting room floor. Shares of the company rose about 2 percent in premarket trading, after Comcast said on Wednesday it would separate its entertainment and […]
Walmart on Tuesday raised its annual sales and profit forecast for the third consecutive time, as people bought more groceries and merchandise, a sign the world’s largest retailer continues to gain market share ahead of the holidays. Shares of Walmart, which are up nearly 60 percent this year, rose as much as 4.5 percent to […]
LESBOS, Greece—In his seaside workshop on the Greek island of Lesbos, Dimitris Kouvdis uses ancient techniques to create pottery pieces that have recently been honoured with inclusion in UNESCO’s National Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage. Kouvdis, 70, and his family have kept an old technique alive near the once humming pottery hub of Mandamados, just […]
SEOUL—South Korean authorities launched an investigation on Tuesday after three people died during a car test at a Hyundai Motor plant in the city of Ulsan, police told Reuters. The two Hyundai researchers and one Hyundai contractor were found unconscious in a car at around 3:00 p.m. while they were testing it in a “chamber,” […]
Boeing will lay off more than 2,500 workers in the states of Washington, Oregon, South Carolina, and Missouri, according to federally required filings posted on Monday and a union official, as part of the debt-heavy planemaker’s plan to cut 17,000 jobs, or 10 percent of its global workforce. Nearly 2,200 layoff notices went to workers […]
The U.S. auto safety regulator said on Monday it had initiated a recall query into about 112,567 Ford SUVs over an issue with seat belt retractors. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it had received three complaints, alleging an inadvertent deployment of the seat belt retractor pretensioner. The complaints referred to a loud sound, […]
NEW YORK—Americans are expected to set a new record for Thanksgiving travel, with nearly 80 million to hit the roads, catch flights, and board cruises over the holiday period, travel group AAA said on Monday. About 1.7 million more people will travel this year from Tuesday, Nov. 26 to Monday, Dec. 2, compared to a […]
BEIJING—A former student went on a stabbing rampage at a vocational college in eastern China, killing at least eight people and injuring 17, police said on Sunday, just days after the deadliest attack in the country in a decade. Saturday’s knife attack took place at the Wuxi Vocational College of Arts and Technology in Yixing, […]
LONDON—A 2,000-year-old Roman knife handle shaped like a gladiator that was discovered in northern England will go on public display for the first time, the charity English Heritage said on Friday. Two divers found the well-preserved object in 1997 in the River Tyne at Corbridge near Hadrian’s Wall, the 73-mile fortification built by the Romans […]
WASHINGTON—The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Thursday Ford Motor has agreed to a $165 million civil penalty after a government investigation found the automaker failed to recall vehicles with defective rearview cameras in a timely manner. Under a consent order that will last at least three years, the No. 2 U.S. automaker must pay […]
BRUSSELS—The European Commission on Thursday fined Meta Platforms €797.72 million ($840.24 million) over abusive practices benefiting Facebook Marketplace, it said in a statement. “The European Commission has fined Meta…for breaching EU antitrust rules by tying its online classified ads service Facebook Marketplace to its personal social network Facebook and by imposing unfair trading conditions on […]
GENEVA—A diamond-studded necklace thought to be linked to a scandal that hastened the downfall of the doomed 18th century queen of France, Marie Antoinette, sold at auction in Geneva on Wednesday for 4.26 million Swiss francs ($4.81 million). Put up for sale by an Asian private collector, the Georgian-era piece containing 300 carats of diamonds […]
KYIV—Blasts boomed across Kyiv on Wednesday morning after officials said Russia launched its first missile attack on the Ukrainian capital since August, forcing people to take shelter in an underground metro station. Ukrainians have been waiting for a big missile attack for months, worried that it could deal a new blow to the hobbled energy […]
