A confidential report reveals that convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein invested $40 million in Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures, which has now grown to $170 million. This investment is the estate's largest asset, but its returns are unlikely to benefit Epstein's victims who previously settled. Instead, the funds are expected to go to beneficiaries like a former partner and advisors.
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The race to become Africa's next "super banker" ends on Thursday, with five candidates, including one woman, vying to succeed Nigeria's Akinwumi Adesina as head of the African Development Bank in a contest that appears too close to call. In 2015 it took six rounds of voting to elect Adesina as president of the AfDB, which was founded in 1964 and now has 81 members, including 54 African nations.
Mount Etna, Europe's largest active volcano in Sicily, Italy, poses ongoing threats despite its 'basic' alert level. This stratovolcano, monitored by INGV, experiences frequent eruptions and gas emissions. While lava flows threaten nearby areas, research indicates a slow slide towards the Ionian Sea, potentially triggering tsunamis.
With reports of acute suffering in Gaza flooding the airwaves, EU leaders have toughened their tone on Israel -- but the bloc will need to bridge deep divisions to move from rhetoric to a real-world impact on the conflict. The European Union has long struggled to have an impact on the Mideast conflict due to long-standing divisions between countries who back Israel and those seen as more pro-Palestinian.
Nearly 200 migrants trying to cross the Channel from France to Britain in small boats were rescued between late Friday and late Saturday, French coastal authorities said. A total 184 people were picked up in four different rescue operations, the maritime prefecture for France's Channel and northern region said in a statement on Sunday.
A delegation from northeast Syria's semi-autonomous Kurdish administration was headed to Damascus on Saturday for talks on implementing a March deal to integrate Kurdish institutions into the state, a member of the delegation said.that "a delegation from the autonomous administration is on the way to Damascus to discuss" details of the March deal.
A one-month-old baby girl, Kiyanna Winfield, was found dead in a Queens apartment, initially suspected to be from a dog mauling. However, a preliminary medical report indicated the infant died from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), with the dog's bites occurring postmortem.
Lawsuits, scandals, armed troops and a knife-wielding attacker all failed to deter Lee Jae-myung's ascendancy from sweatshop worker to the cusp of South Korea's presidency. South Korea has experienced a leadership vacuum since lawmakers suspended Yoon for deploying armed troops to parliament in his failed attempt to suspend civilian rule.
UN chief Antonio Guterres called Monday for an independent investigation into the killing of dozens of Palestinians near a US-backed aid centre in Gaza after rescuers blamed the deaths on Israeli fire and the military denied any involvement. It is unacceptable that Palestinians are risking their lives for food," Guterres said in a statement, without assigning blame for the deaths.