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...Jane Zhang, owner of an advertising company in south-eastern Jiangxi province who defaulted on a bank loan, said she panicked when a local court banned her in May from using WeChat Pay to buy meals for her...
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...Black’s lawyers have sought to cast doubt on the credibility of those accusers, one of whom is a pseudonymous Jane Doe who is said by Wigdor to have Down’s syndrome and autism and the developmental capacities...
...The agreement came just hours after a federal judge ruled that the case, originally brought by a single Epstein accuser under the pseudonym Jane Doe, would be widened to include dozens of women who claim...
...The Bank of England’s official interest rate — currently at 4.5 per cent — was in double figures between 1988 and 1991....
...The country’s official manufacturing purchasing managers’ index came in at 49.5 this month, missing forecasts and trailing a reading of 50.2 in September....
...“Let us, then, not despise the plains,” wrote a journalist of the day, “but turn their capacities to best account.” But how exactly to turn them?...
...Daily transfers of migrants from Border Patrol to local officials have been as high as 1,800, says Mark Evans, communications director for Pima County. “December has been an exhausting month....
...Deutsche Bank has agreed to pay up to $75mn to settle a lawsuit brought by the pseudonymous Jane Doe who alleged the lender had benefited from human trafficking by retaining Jeffrey Epstein as a client....
...Earlier this year, Wigdor filed another lawsuit on behalf of a Jane Doe who alleges that Epstein forced her to have sex with Black when she was 16. Both legal battles are likely to be protracted....
...The developed world must invest more in its capacity to deal with e-waste, instead of sending it — along with its consequences — overseas. The root cause lies in consumer habits....
...Companies are being pursued in the courts over the pollution they have caused; when 3M was sued by the Belgian government in 2022, it had to pay $581mn for clean up costs....
...The government is examining several options for reform — including amending the Defamation Act 2013 to strengthen the public interest defence, which gives protection to publishers if their reporting is in...
...Here is the rest of the day’s news — Gordon Five more stories in the news 1....
...The company’s ambitious proposals have sent local officials in Gaston County scrambling to update their decades-old mining regulations, which did not envision a mine of the type and size that Piedmont wants...
...Seizures — a rough proxy analysts and enforcement officials rely on to estimate production — have been at their highest in years in south-east Asia in 2021....
...The EU’s combined capacities are not small. The EU’s Nato states have a combined strength of 1.26m serving troops, not far off the US’s 1.37m....
...Five more stories in the news 1. Robinhood shares slide in debut The popular app that brought fee-free trading to millions of Americans saw lacklustre investor demand on its trading debut....
...Thomas Hale in Hong Kong 1....
...If Jane da Mosto has her way, that will soon change....
...Beijing announced the sanctions on Monday in retaliation against travel bans and asset freezes imposed on four Chinese officials and a security organisation over the persecution of Uyghurs in Xinjiang in...
...Election officials across the country are also providing drop boxes where voters can place their completed ballots instead of posting them. These too have become contested in the courts....
...his personal capacity in Wisconsin, asking the court to rule that the election in the state was run in an entirely unconstitutional manner....
...“We are going to have 1,500 track and tracers in Madrid,” Isabel Díaz Ayuso, head of the regional government, said this week....
...(FT) John Bolton sued ahead of upcoming book The US Department of Justice sued John Bolton in an attempt to delay the impending publication of a book about his time working as Donald Trump’s national security...
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