NatWest Group Plc was ordered to pay an ex-compliance manager £88,000 ($112,440) after she was unfairly dismissed by the bank days after getting surgery for cancer. Adeline Willis, a former senior risk and compliance officer, was seeking as much as £4.3 million at a London employment tribunal after judges said she’d been discriminated against and…
A man checks the debris next to a damaged office building in the Moscow City following a reported Ukrainian drone attack in Moscow, Russia, August 1, 2023. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina ASHGABAT, Aug 2 (Reuters) – Turkmenistan’s flagship airline has suspended flights to Moscow, it said on Wednesday, citing safety concerns after Ukrainian drone attacks on the…
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Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event in Council Bluffs, Iowa, U.S., July 7, 2023. REUTERS/Scott Morgan/File Photo WASHINGTON, Aug 2 (Reuters) – Efforts to hold Donald Trump criminally responsible for attempting to overturn the 2020 election were gaining steam, as the former U.S. president prepared to face…
The most serious charge in Donald Trump’s indictment for efforts to overturn the last presidential election has roots in the decades-old collapse of energy-trading giant Enron Corp.Bloomberg Terminal — and was revived recently as a key part of the Justice Department’s Jan. 6 prosecution playbook. The 2002 statute — corruptly obstructing an official proceeding —…
Receive free War in Ukraine updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest War in Ukraine news every morning. Russia attacked targets across Ukraine with drones before sunrise on Wednesday, hitting a critical river port facility and a grain silo in the southern Odesa region and raising further concerns over…
Hong Kong/London CNN — Global stock markets fell Wednesday after ratings agency Fitch downgraded its US credit rating from the highest level, citing “a steady deterioration in standards of governance” and the American government’s growing debt burden. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 (N225) index had its worst day of the year, ending down 2.3%, while Hong…
Apollo Global Management Inc., Bain Capital and KKR & Co. are among suitors shortlisted in the bidding for Fujitsu Ltd.’s controlling stake in chip packaging unit Shinko Electric Industries Co., people familiar with the matter said. State-owned Japan Investment Corp. is also pursuing Fujitsu’s 50% holding in Shinko Electric, said the people, who asked not…
[1/8]Firefighters work at a damaged property, following a Russian drone attack, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, at Izmail, Odesa region, Ukraine, August 2, 2023, in this screen grab obtained from a handout video. Ukraine’s Operational Command ‘South’ /Handout via REUTERS KYIV, Aug 2 (Reuters) – Russia attacked Ukraine’s grain ports in the early hours of…