UK paper group bids to throw out Prince Harry and others’ privacy lawsuits

LONDON (Reuters) – The publisher of Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper is applying to dismiss lawsuits brought by Prince Harry, singer Elton John and other individuals alleging phone-tapping and other breaches of privacy. Associated Newspapers, publisher of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday and MailOnline, has applied to London’s High Court for the lawsuits – …

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France fines TikTok $5.4 million for online tracking shortcomings

PARIS (Reuters) -France on Thursday fined TikTok 5 million euros ($5.4 million) for shortcomings linked to the short video platform’s handling of online tracking known as “cookies”, which the ByteDance-owned company said it had now addressed. French data protection watchdog CNIL said that its investigation only concerned the website tiktok.com and not the service’s much …

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Haddad unveils plan to cut Brazil’s 2023 deficit below $20 billion

By Marcela Ayres BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian Finance Minister Fernando Haddad on Thursday announced a plan to more than halve the government’s estimated deficit this year by boosting revenue and trimming expenditures, helping to lift the real currency to its strongest level in two months. Gains occurred in a session in which various currencies rose …

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Brazil police find draft decree in ex-minister’s house to revert election -source

By Ricardo Brito BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian police found a draft decree in the home of former President Jair Bolsonaro’s justice minister that appears to be a proposal to interfere in the result of the October election he lost, two people familiar with the investigation said on Thursday. The proposed decree, elaborated after Bolsonaro’s narrow …

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Analysis-Why the U.S. needs Japan’s help on China chips restrictions

By Michael Martina and David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) – When the Biden administration unveiled aggressive export controls in October aimed at blocking China from becoming a global leader in advanced semiconductors it was missing a key ingredient: agreement from U.S. allies to impose their own matching restrictions. Persuading Japan to join the U.S. effort, which …

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Major media want to know who guaranteed Sam Bankman-Fried’s $250 million bond

By Jonathan Stempel and Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – Eight major media outlets on Thursday asked the U.S. judge overseeing Sam Bankman-Fried’s criminal case to make public the names of two people who helped guarantee the FTX cryptocurrency exchange founder’s $250 million bond. Saying the public interest “cannot be overstated,” lawyers for the outlets, …

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Marketmind: Keep calm, risk on

By Jamie McGeever (Reuters) – A look at the day ahead in Asian markets from Jamie McGeever. U.S. inflation data for December is in, and while market reaction was perhaps a little muted relative to recent releases and the hype surrounding it, the overriding message for investors was clear: keep calm and risk on. A …

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