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Bootleg album of jailed R&B star R. Kelly surfaces on Spotify and Apple Music: media
A previously unreleased album by disgraced US R&B singer R. Kelly, who is serving a 30-year sentence for sex offenses, dropped Friday on the Spotify and Apple Music platforms, a recording that the music press described as a bootleg. For these sexual crimes, the federal court in Brooklyn sentenced him to 30 years in prison.
Guyana opens bidding for offshore oil blocks
Guyana's President Irfaan Ali on Friday opened bidding for the exploitation of offshore oil blocks in the tiny country, which has the world's highest reserves of crude oil per capita. The heavily-forested Guyana, one of South America's poorest and smallest countries, was recently found to have proven reserves of at least 10 billion barrels of oil, likely much more according to experts.
Keep talking: Disgraced crypto king's high-risk strategy
Omnipresent on talk shows and conference panels, disgraced cryptocurrency tycoon Sam Bankman-Fried is defying the advice of the legal profession and staying in the public eye despite facing the real threat of prosecution and even jail time. "I didn't ever try to commit fraud on anyone," Bankman-Fried told a New York Times conference on November 30.
Canada to hasten permitting for critical minerals mines
Canada will look to quickly ramp up production of critical minerals that are vital to its transition away from climate-harming fossil fuels, according to a new strategy unveiled Friday. There is no energy transition without critical minerals," says the strategy document.
UK defends new post-Brexit finance reforms
Britain on Friday launched a post-Brexit plan to relax curbs on its powerhouse City sector introduced after the 2008 financial crisis, denying the reforms will bring about new instability. The ringfencing policy was introduced after the 2008 global financial crisis, to help banks survive another meltdown.
Hydrogen pipeline between Spain and France to be ready 'by 2030'
An ambitious underwater pipeline to bring green hydrogen from the Iberian Peninsula to the rest of Europe will be completed by 2030 and will cost some 2.5 billion euros, the leaders of France, Spain and Portugal said Friday.
Madrid, Paris, Lisbon push ahead with hydrogen pipeline
Spain, France and Portugal on Friday unveil details of their ambitious plan for an underwater pipeline to bring green hydrogen from the Iberian Peninsula to the rest of Europe.
'My Kalashnikov is my pen': Ukraine artist wages war on Putin
Every day Russia wages war on Ukraine, Mykola Kovalenko makes an anti-war poster. But despite the posters' success, he would rather not have to make any more and wants the war to end immediately.
Asian markets mixed with focus on US inflation data, Fed meeting
Asian markets were mixed Friday as optimism about China's economic reopening continues to face off against concerns about rising interest rates and a possible recession. But there remains some concern that the world's top economy remains resilient and the jobs market too strong, meaning the Fed might have to keep tightening monetary policy longer than had been hoped.
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