(Reuters) – More than 46,000 people reported losing over $1 billion in cryptocurrency scams since the start of 2021, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said in a report on Friday. Nearly half the people who reported losing digital currencies in a scam …
Soccer-Macron urges Champions League ticket holders blocked from entering arena to be reimbursed
PARIS (Reuters) – Ticket holders who were blocked from entering Paris’s Stade de France for last Saturday’s Champions League final by security personnel must be reimbursed “as fast as possible”, French President Emmanuel Macron told local media on Frid…
Putin says Ukrainian grain can be exported through Belarus
(Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday denied Moscow was preventing Ukrainian ports from exporting grain and said the best solution would be to ship it through Belarus, as long as sanctions on that country were lifted. Putin, saying repo…
Marriott to suspend operations in Russia
(Reuters) – Marriott International Inc said on Friday it will suspend its operations in Russia after more than 25 years. The company on March 10 decided to pause the opening of upcoming hotels and all future hotel developments and investments in Russia…
Citi CEO sees Europe heading into recession more than U.S
By Elizabeth Dilts Marshall and Noor Zainab Hussain (Reuters) – Citigroup Inc Chief Executive Jane Fraser said on Friday that Europe was more likely than the United States to slip into a recession, as she joined other global bank CEOs this week to warn…
Two Reuters journalists injured, driver killed in east Ukraine
(Reuters) – Two Reuters journalists were injured and a driver killed on Friday after the vehicle they were in came under fire while heading to the eastern Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk, the latest battle line in Russia’s assault on its neighbour. P…
Amazon executive behind its massive delivery operation to leave after 23 years
By Akash Sriram and Jeffrey Dastin (Reuters) -Dave Clark, the executive who made Amazon.com Inc into a worldwide delivery behemoth, is stepping down as chief executive of the online retailer’s consumer business to pursue other opportunities, the compan…
Macron, Bloomberg seek better monitoring of business climate action
PARIS (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron and U.N. Special Climate Envoy Michael Bloomberg on Friday announced creation of a new committee as part of efforts to enhance transparency to monitor business climate actions through an open data plat…
Ukraine says it pushes back Russian troops in battlefield city
By Max Hunder KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine said on Saturday it had recaptured a swathe of the battlefield city of Sievierodonetsk, in a rare counter-offensive against Russia’s main assault force that had been steadily advancing in the east. The Ukrainian cl…
Musk deal for Twitter dodges lengthy U.S. antitrust review
(Reuters) -Twitter Inc said on Friday that the U.S. antitrust waiting period for Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of the social media giant had expired, indicating it had dodged a lengthy review of the proposed deal. With the expiration, completion …