FTX founder Bankman-Fried allowed $250M bond, home arrest

Cryptocurrency entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried has left Manhattan federal courtroom after his dad and mom signed a $250 million private recognizance bond. He wore an digital monitoring bracelet as he rushed to a automobile Thursday to move along with his dad and mom to their California dwelling to await trial. Bankman-Fried is accused of swindling buyers and looting buyer deposits on his FTX buying and selling platform. Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicolas Roos mentioned that the 30-year-old Bankman-Fried “perpetrated a fraud of epic proportions.” Magistrate Judge Gabriel W. Gorenstein largely agreed to bail phrases proposed by attorneys on either side. Bankman-Fried is scheduled to return to courtroom on Jan. 3.

Arizona to take away
transport container
wall from Mexico border

Gov. Doug Ducey says Arizona will take down a makeshift wall made from transport containers on the Mexico border, settling a lawsuit and political tussle with the federal authorities over trespassing on federal lands. The Biden administration and the Republican governor entered into an settlement that Arizona will stop putting in the containers within the Coronado National Forest. That is in keeping with courtroom paperwork filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court. The stipulation says Arizona should take away the transport containers already current in southeastern Cochise County by Jan. 4. The decision comes simply two weeks earlier than Democrat Katie Hobbs, who opposes the development, takes over as governor.

Taliban minister
defends ban on girls’s college research

The minister of upper schooling within the Taliban authorities has damaged his silence over his resolution to ban girls from universities. Nida Mohammad Nadim mentioned Thursday he issued the decree earlier this week to keep away from the blending of genders in universities and since he believes some topics being taught violated the rules of Islam. Earlier, the overseas ministers of the G-7 group of states urged the Taliban to rescind the ban, warning that “gender persecution may amount to a crime against humanity.” The ministers warned after a digital assembly that “Taliban policies designed to erase women from public life will have consequences for how our countries engage with the Taliban.”

Fiji calls in army after shut election is disputed

Fijian police say they’re calling within the army to assist keep safety following a detailed election final week that’s now being disputed. It was an alarming growth Thursday in a Pacific nation the place democracy stays fragile and there have been 4 army coups prior to now 35 years. The two principal contenders for prime minister this 12 months had been former coup leaders themselves. The army transfer got here after Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama’s Fiji First get together refused to concede, regardless of rival Sitiveni Rabuka’s get together and two different events saying that they had fashioned a majority coalition and would function the subsequent authorities.

Russia scrubs
Mariupol’s Ukraine
identification, builds on demise

Throughout Mariupol, Russian employees are tearing down bombed-out buildings at a fee of at the least one a day, hauling away shattered our bodies with the particles. Russian troopers, builders, directors and medical doctors are changing the 1000’s of Ukrainians who’ve died or left. Eight months after Mariupol fell into Russian palms, Russia is eradicating all vestiges of Ukraine from it. But it can not conceal the truth that it’s constructing on demise: The Associated Press discovered that greater than 10,000 new graves already scar Mariupol. An AP investigation into occupied Mariupol drew on interviews with 30 residents, together with 13 residing beneath Russian occupation, satellite tv for pc imagery, lots of of movies gathered from inside the town, and Russian paperwork.

By wire supply