(Reuters) – Digital bank Chime will pay a penalty of $3.25 million to the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) for failing to issue timely refunds to customers who closed their accounts, and will return at least $1.3 million to customers, the regulator said on Tuesday. WHY IT’S IMPORTANT The …

MADRID (Reuters) – Manager Carlo Ancelotti urged Real Madrid to play with more pace and intensity if they want to keep alive their hopes of securing the LaLiga-European Cup double by beating Bayern Munich in the return leg of their Champions League semi-final on Wednesday. Real wrapped up the LaLiga …

BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s four main illegal armed groups grew during 2023 as they consolidated territorial control financed by drug trafficking and illicit gold extraction, according to a secret security report seen by Reuters. The report focused on leftist guerrilla group the National Liberation Army (ELN), crime gang the Clan …

KUCHING: The Sarawak State Legislative Assembly on Tuesday passed the Sarawak Forestry Corporation Bill to refine, strengthen and enhance the legal framework governing the protection and management of totally protected areas and wildlife in Sarawak. Tabled by Deputy Premier and Natural Resources and Urban Development Minister Datuk Amar Awang Tengah …

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Vladimir Putin, honoured like a Russian tsar at his swearing-in for a new six-year presidential term, had a double-edged message for the West: the Kremlin is ready to talk but Russia is girding for victory in Ukraine. Putin, who rose to the top of the Kremlin just …

KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court here on Tuesday dismissed Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s former research assistant, Muhammed Yusoff Rawther’s discovery application of the polygraph test to support his suit filed against the Prime Minister. Judge Datuk Dr John Lee Kien How @ Mohd Johan Lee in his judgment ruled that …

LONDON (Reuters) – Oscar-winning U.S. actor Kevin Spacey on Tuesday overturned a London court ruling which effectively found him liable for an alleged sexual assault on a British man, after his lawyers mistakenly failed to serve a defence to a civil lawsuit. Spacey is being sued at London’s High Court …

BATU KAWAN: The semiconductor industry presents Malaysia with a ‘once-in-a-generation’ opportunity for exponential economic growth and industry players are advised to capitalise on this billion-dollar sector. Deputy Investment, Trade and Industry Minister (MITI) Liew Chin Tong said the government is paying close attention to the semiconductor industry, heralding it as …

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Microsoft was hit with a Spanish startup group’s complaint about its cloud practices to the Spanish antitrust regulator on Tuesday, the latest grievance over its fast-growing cloud computing services and which followed a trade group’s EU complaint. The U.S. tech giant ranks second in the cloud computing …

Tesla Inc is facing a July 1 deadline to furnish US regulators with information about its biggest-ever recall because drivers using Autopilot keep crashing while using the system. In a letter posted on its website May 7, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration presses Tesla on how much mileage consumers …