Former Fox execs in Brooklyn court as FIFA corruption case kicks off

By Jack Queen (Reuters) -A criminal case against two former 21st Century Fox executives and a sports marketing company accused of bribing South American soccer officials to obtain lucrative broadcasting rights will reveal “a culture of corruption,” a prosecutor told a jury in a Brooklyn federal court on Tuesday. The former Fox executives, Hernan Lopez …

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Blinken welcomes Northern Ireland talks progress after meeting UK’s Cleverly

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said after meeting his British counterpart on Tuesday that Washington welcomed apparent progress in talks between Britain and the European Union aimed at resolving a post-Brexit trade row over Northern Ireland. Blinken and Britain’s Foreign Secretary James Cleverly’s talks at the State Department in Washington focused …

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Trian Fund Management, now pushing for seat at Disney, lost 10.6% in 2022

By Svea Herbst-Bayliss NEW YORK (Reuters) – Trian Fund Management, the activist investment firm currently pushing for changes plus a board seat at Walt Disney Co, posted a return of negative 10.6% last year when many hedge funds nursed losses, people familiar with the number said. Trian’s co-founder, Nelson Peltz, has criticized Disney for bungled …

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Morale at Japan big manufacturers logs first negative reading in 2 years -Reuters Tankan

By Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) – Business confidence at big Japanese firms slid in January with manufacturers showing a negative reading for the first time in two years, the Reuters Tankan survey found, reflecting a slow recovery from the pandemic amid a global economic downturn and rising living costs. The drop in morale could undermine …

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In China, doctors say they are discouraged from citing COVID on death certificates

By Martin Quin Pollard and Engen Tham BEIJING (Reuters) – During a busy shift at the height of Beijing’s COVID wave, a physician at a private hospital saw a printed notice in the emergency department: doctors should “try not to” write COVID-induced respiratory failure on death certificates. Instead, if the deceased had an underlying disease, …

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Guatemala y Colombia “al borde del rompimiento” de relaciones diplomáticas

CIUDAD DE GUATEMALA, 17 ene (Reuters) -El Gobierno guatemalteco llamó el martes a consultas a su embajadora en Bogotá, incrementando las tensiones diplomáticas entre ambos países luego de que la nación centroamericana anuncio acciones legales contra el ministro de Defensa de Colombia, quien lideró una misión anticorrupción en Guatemala. El presidente de Colombia, Gustavo Petro, …

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Britain’s financial services exports tick higher, U.S. top customer

By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s trade surplus in financial and related professional services edged up in 2021 as the United States cemented its position as the top customer, while the European Union eased in importance following Brexit, TheCityUK figures showed on Tuesday. Britain has just unveiled its “Edinburgh Reforms” to bolster the City …

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