MUNICH (Reuters) – German prosecutors have charged another two former Wirecard executives, according to a statement from their Munich office on Tuesday, casting their net wider in investigations into one of Germany’s biggest corporate scandals. Wirecard collapsed in June 2020 over a 1.9 billion euro ($2.1 billion) hole in its …

MADRID (Reuters) – The parliament of Spain’s Catalonia region is expected to elect a new leader this week, although the event may be upstaged by the return of its former leader from self-imposed exile, despite a pending warrant for his arrest. Carles Puigdemont is the figurehead of hardline separatist party …

President Nicolás Maduro asked his supporters to remove WhatsApp, the Meta-owned messaging app, from their phones, as he said it’s being used by “fascists” to spread violence. Speaking under the rain at a rally called by the ruling party’s youth branch, Maduro called for a “voluntary, progressive and radical withdraw” …

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – A Polish man will stand trial in Denmark on Tuesday over an attack on Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in central Copenhagen in early June, facing charges of assaulting a public official. The incident, which took place two days before European Parliament elections, left Frederiksen with a minor …

PARIS (Reuters) – Brazil’s Bruna Alexandre smashes and chops just like the other table tennis players at the Paris Olympics but when serving she uses the paddle in her left hand to throw the ball high. That move, which now seems easy and natural, was what a seven-year-old Alexandre once …

KUALA LUMPUR: Here is a recap of the announcements that made headlines in Corporate Malaysia. FGV Holdings Bhd has launched the FGV Vendor Development Program to empower 300 local vendors and foster local economic growth in Malaysia. Mah Sing Group Berhad announced that it has completed the acquisition of the …

BOGOTA (Reuters) -Colombia’s armed forces have restarted operations against leftist rebel group the National Liberation Army (ELN), Defense Minister Ivan Velasquez said on Monday. The decision to restart military operations comes after a six-month ceasefire between the two sides ended on Saturday. The government of President Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s first …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Secretaries of state from five U.S. states urged billionaire Elon Musk on Monday to fix social media platform X’s AI chatbot, saying it had spread misinformation related to the Nov. 5 election. WHY IT’S IMPORTANT Social media platforms, including X, have been under scrutiny for years over …

PARIS (Reuters) – The Algerian and Taiwanese boxers embroiled in a row over gender in sport at the Paris Olympics were disqualified from the 2023 World Championships after a sex chromosome test ruled both of them ineligible, the International Boxing Association said on Monday. A storm erupted over the participation …