KUALA LUMPUR / NEW YORK (Reuters) – Goldman Sachs will pay $ 3.9 billion to resolve Malaysia’s criminal investigation into the role of the US investment bank in the 1MDB multi-million dollar scandal, closing a key front in the multi-jurisdictional investigation that has been over Goldman. Shares of Goldman Sachs …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States Senate on Thursday approved its version of the National Defense Authorization Act, a $ 740 billion policy for the Pentagon that President Donald Trump has threatened to veto over a provision that eliminates Confederate names of military bases. The President of the United States, …
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FILE PHOTO: Mike Ryan, Executive Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) attends a press conference on the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, May 3, 2019 REUTERS / Denis Balibouse GENEVA / ZURICH (Reuters) – Researchers are making “good …
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SYDNEY (Reuters) – A 23-year-old student filed a lawsuit against the Australian government, alleging that he had not disclosed the risks related to climate change to investors in the country’s sovereign bonds, in the first such action. FILE PHOTO: A lone tree stands near a water channel in a drought-stricken …
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union leaders reached an agreement on Tuesday for a massive stimulus package that the European Commission says will make the fight against climate change central to Europe’s economic recovery from the pandemic of coronavirus. European Council President Charles Michel and European Commission President Ursula Von Der …
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