A man walks in front of a pre-election poster of Presidential candidate Nikolas Papadopoulos leader of the center-right DIKO party in Nicosia, Cyprus January 26, 2018. REUTERS/Yiannis Kourtoglou January 28, 2018 By Michele Kambas ATHENS (Reuters) – Greek Cypriots were voting on Sunday for a new president tasked with breaking […]
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Hacked Tokyo cryptocurrency exchange to repay owners $425 million
FILE PHOTO: A man walks past a building where Mt. Gox, a digital marketplace operator, is housed in Tokyo February 25, 2014. REUTERS/Toru Hanai January 28, 2018 TOKYO (Reuters) – Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck Inc said on Sunday it would return about 46.3 billion yen ($425 million) of the virtual […]
Jeremy Piven denies new sexual misconduct allegations
LOS ANGELES — Jeremy Piven, who has strongly denied allegations of sexual misconduct from at least three women, is facing further accusations that date back decades, an online news site reported Saturday. Three additional women claim Piven acted in a physically aggressive or threatening manner, BuzzFeed News reported in a […]
Hacked Japanese cryptocurrency exchange to repay owners $425 million
Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck said on Sunday it would return about 46.3 billion yen ($425 million) of the virtual money it lost to hackers two days ago in one of the biggest-ever thefts of digital money. That amounts to nearly 90 percent of the 58 billion yen worth of NEM […]
Amid turmoil, Trump seeking a reset with State of the Union
Beset by poor poll numbers and the grind of the Russia investigation, President Donald Trump will look to reset his term with his first State of the Union address, arguing that his tax cut and economic policies will benefit all Americans. The theme of his Tuesday night address to Congress […]
China’s Weibo social media site suspends portals after reprimand
China’s Sina Weibo was ordered to move several portals offline for a week after spreading obscene and wrongly oriented content, the country’s internet watchdog said. The government has been tightening controls over internet content as part of efforts to maintain “social stability,” taking on “vulgar” and pornographic content as well […]
Teen posts “I made you a sandwich” to trolls after skiing to South Pole
Jade Hameister, 16, is the youngest person to ever pull off the “Polar Hat Trick,” or visiting the North and South Poles on skis. After skiing to the South Pole, the Australian teen had a message for the trolls who told her to “make me a sandwich”: “I made you […]
The US is going to make streaming services pay more for music
U.S. copyright authorities on Saturday decided to increase over the next five years the royalty payments music streaming companies like Spotify and Apple must make to songwriters and music publishers, a trade association for music publishers said. The Copyright Royalty Board of the U.S. Library of Congress issued a written […]
This US is going to make streaming services pay more for music
U.S. copyright authorities on Saturday decided to increase over the next five years the royalty payments music streaming companies like Spotify and Apple must make to songwriters and music publishers, a trade association for music publishers said. The Copyright Royalty Board of the U.S. Library of Congress issued a written […]
China says hopes to get Japan ties back on track
Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono, left, and Chinese counterpart Wang Yi pose for photograph before their meeting at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, China Jan. 28, 2018. REUTERS/Andy Wong/Pool January 28, 2018 BEIJING (Reuters) – China hopes to work with Japan to get relations back onto a normal track, […]