Thursday, October 5, 2023

Trump's celebrity was used to hike up value of Trump Tower penthouse, fraud trial hears

A portion of the exterior of Trump Tower is seen in New York City.

Donald Trump's corporate executives once boosted the estimated worth of his Trump Tower penthouse by $20 million US partly because of the value of his celebrity, according to trial testimony Thursday.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-fraud-trial-property-valuations-1.6988524?cmp=rss

At least 51 killed in rocket attack in Ukraine's Kharkiv region

Several helmeted first responders are shown walking in the rubble of a building in which the roof has been blown off.

At least 51 civilians were killed Thursday in a Russian rocket strike on a village store in Eastern Ukraine, one of the deadliest attacks in recent months that came as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attended a summit of around 50 European leaders in Spain.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ukraine-war-kharkiv-hroza-attack-1.6987502?cmp=rss

FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried demanded special privileges for his hedge fund, fraud trial told

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is seen outside a Manhattan federal court in August 2023.

Sam Bankman-Fried's college roommate and ex-colleague, Gary Wang, testified on Thursday at the FTX cryptocurrency exchange founder's fraud trial that Bankman-Fried told him to give a hedge fund they co-owned special trading privileges on FTX.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ftx-fraud-trial-hedge-fund-1.6988304?cmp=rss

Rights group says mother of Iranian teen hurt in alleged confrontation over hijab law has been arrested

CCTV footage of a subway train in a station, people carrying a person out onto the ground

An Iranian rights group said that security forces on Thursday arrested the mother of a teenage girl who was in a coma in hospital following a confrontation with agents in the Tehran metro for not wearing the hijab.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/iran-armita-geravand-mother-arrested-subway-coma-1.6987888?cmp=rss

Commander, Biden's dog, removed from White House after repeated biting incidents

A german shepherd is shown sitting at attention through an iron fence.

U.S. President Joe Biden's dog, Commander, is "not presently on the White House campus" following a series of biting incidents involving White House staff and U.S. Secret Service officers, a spokesperson for Jill Biden said late Wednesday.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/white-house-dog-commander-1.6987403?cmp=rss