(Reuters) – Venezuela’s use of digital currencies, expected to increase after the United States ordered a wind-down of oil deals with the sanctioned country by May 31, will require greater scrutiny by regulators and law enforcement, experts said on Monday. Venezuela’s state oil company PDVSA plans to increase cryptocurrency transactions …

NEW YORK: L’Occitane International SA’s billionaire owner Reinold Geiger is close to making an offer to take the skin-care company private, according to people familiar with the matter, in a deal that could value the firm at about US$7bil, including debt. Geiger is considering making an offer for the L’Occitane …

THERE is a saying that in saving a language, one also preserves a culture. StarMetro meets linguists, individuals and associations who have taken on this cause. According to Ethnologue, a reference on all the world’s known languages, there are 111 living languages in Malaysia. However, 93 of them have been …

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Haiti’s new transition council is set to choose the country’s next president on Tuesday, but leaders of the gangs who have exerted increasing control are clamoring for political influence and amnesties and threatening violence if their demands are not met. Last week, after former Prime Minister Ariel …

(Reuters) – Boxing great Mike Tyson and YouTuber-turned-prizefighter Jake Paul’s July 20 bout in Arlington will be a sanctioned, professional fight that will count on both men’s records, the fight promoter said on Monday. The heavyweight match-up, which will be streamed live on Netflix, will be contested over eight, two-minute …

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s government will soon create an interministerial commission chaired by the Planning Ministry to unlock projects for integration in South America, a top official said on Monday. According to Renata Amaral, secretary of International Affairs and Development, a decree signed by leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da …

(Reuters) – While some golfers might enjoy the respite of playing an event without red-hot Scottie Scheffler in the field, Keegan Bradley feels a triumph without the world’s best golfer present would leave something to be desired. The seemingly invincible Scheffler has four wins and a runners-up finish in his …

LONDON (Reuters) – Sophie, Britain’s Duchess of Edinburgh, has visited Ukraine, meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and his wife in the first trip to the country by a British royal since the conflict with Russia began, Buckingham Palace said on Monday. Sophie, 59, the wife of King Charles’ youngest brother …

(Reuters) – Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti said on Monday that his side will not make the mistake of looking past Bayern Munich in their Champions League semi-final, first leg in Germany on Tuesday despite their rivals’ disappointing domestic campaign. Bayer Leverkusen ended the Bavarians’ 11-year Bundesliga reign by securing …

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The debris from a missile that landed in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on Jan. 2 was from a North Korean Hwasong-11 series ballistic missile, United Nations sanctions monitors told a Security Council committee in a report seen by Reuters on Monday. In the 32-page report, …