Congo police break up small protest over parliamentary election results

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Police in Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday dispersed a small protest in the capital Kinshasa against the provisional results of the December legislative election, the latest flare-up in tensions over the disputed poll. Around 50 supporters of the Movement for the Liberation of the Congo (MLC) party briefly took to the streets...

Putin says Ukraine’s statehood at risk if pattern of war continues

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Ukraine's statehood could suffer an "irreparable blow" if the pattern of the war continued, and Russia would never be forced to abandon the gains it had made. Putin made his televised comments a day after Switzerland agreed to host a global summit at the request...

Russia’s Medvedev says any UK troop deployment to Ukraine would be a declaration of war

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A senior ally of President Vladimir Putin warned on Friday that Moscow would regard any move by Britain to deploy a military contingent to Ukraine as a declaration of war against Russia. Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, now deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, made the comments in response to a visit by...

US lawmakers urge SEC to fix cybersecurity after X account hack

U.S. lawmakers have urged the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to review its cyber security preparedness after the financial regulator's X account posted market material information earlier in the week due to a hack. Someone briefly accessed its X, formerly called Twitter, account on Tuesday, the agency had confirmed, and posted a fake message saying it...

Crypto firm Genesis Global Trading to pay $8 million penalty, surrender NY license

The New York Department of Financial Services said Digital Currency Group subsidiary Genesis Global trading will pay an $8 million penalty and surrender its license from the regulator after an investigation found significant failings in the company's anti-money laundering and cybersecurity programs. Genesis - a cryptocurrency market-maker and brokerage firm - failed to maintain an effective...

US appeals court upholds tribunal decisions in Apple-Masimo patent dispute

A U.S. appeals court on Friday upheld two earlier decisions by a patent tribunal that favored Masimo in its intellectual property dispute with Apple over blood oxygen sensors in newer Apple Watch models. The decisions by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit concern findings by the Patent and Trademark Office and come as Apple...

Earthquake survivors in Japan sleep in coats and hats at shelters without heat or running water

Nanao, JapanCNN —  Minae Akiyama had traveled from southern Japan to Ishikawa prefecture to celebrate New Year’s with her family, when the ground began to shake. “Thinking about it now still makes me tremble. My heart was pounding, my mind went blank, we just scrambled,” she told CNN from a shelter in the city of Nanao, where she and her family...

Aaron-Soh, Ong-Teo storm into quarters as new perks unveiled

KUALA LUMPUR: Olympic Games hopefuls Aaron Chia-Soh Wooi Yik and Ong Yew Sin-Teo Ee Yi had more than one reason to celebrate after storming into the men’s doubles quarter-finals in the Malaysian Open yesterday. Both pairs not only won their respective matches but also received a boost as they will enjoy the newly announced benefits that...

Citigroup swings to US$1.8bil loss on slew of charges

Citigroup on Friday reported a $1.8 billion loss for the fourth quarter as it recorded charges to refill a government deposit insurance fund and carry out a sweeping internal reorganization. CEO Jane Fraser called the results "very disappointing," but expects this year to be a turning point. "We made substantial progress simplifying Citi and executing our strategy...

Reactions to US, British strikes against Houthis in Yemen

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States and Britain launched a series of strikes on Yemen on Thursday aimed at the Iran-backed Houthi militia that started targeting international shipping in the Red Sea late last year. Initial reactions from the U.S. Congress included: U.S. SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH MCCONNELL "I welcome the U.S. and coalition operations against the Iran-backed Houthi...