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Tommy Robinson has failed to appear at the High Court to answer questions about his finances in connection with unpaid legal bills, The Mirror reported. The English Defence League founder was successfully sued for defamation by Jamal Hijazi when the then 15-year-old was assaulted at Almondbury Community School in Huddersfield in October 2018.
South American carrier LATAM is making progress with the court and can begin the solicitation process to get the approval on its plan of reorganization, Simple Flying reported. LATAM is eyeing to exit its chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in the second half of 2022. LATAM Airlines Group is moving forward with its chapter 11 bankruptcy process. Yesterday, the group’s Disclosure Statement was approved in the U.S. In the last few months, the company has filed five revised documents concerning its Plan of Reorganization (first filed on Nov.
Three Spanish truckers unions on Tuesday dismissed a government aid package and joined a spontaneous one-week strike against rising fuel prices that is likely to aggravate a shortage of food products in supermarkets across the country, KFGO.com reported. The three truckers unions opted to join the strike after they decided a 500 million euro ($550.45 million) government support package offered on Monday was vague and not enough to compensate for the soaring price of diesel.
Japan’s troubled Toshiba Corp. is going into Thursday’s critical shareholder vote on its plan to spin-off its devices business with very long odds, Reuters reported. Its top three shareholders, Effissimo Capital Management, 3D Investment Partners and Farallon Capital Management — all activist shareholders with which Toshiba management has had a contentious history — oppose the plan, as do proxy advisory firms Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and Glass Lewis.
The apartments typically go unused, instead acting as an investment vehicle to hold onto money, Africa Business Insider reported. They're often held through a trust or shell company to hide the identity of the true owner. In a small city in South Florida called Sunny Isles Beach, luxury condos tower over the Atlantic Ocean. But high above the busy streets, not all of the city's multi-million dollar apartments light up at night.
British government bond issuance will fall closer toward pre-pandemic norms in the coming financial year, when the market's biggest buyer over the last decade — the Bank of England — will move to the sidelines, according to a Reuters poll of primary dealers, Reuters reported. The Debt Management Office's 2022/23 gilt issuance remit is likely to show about 147 billion pounds ($193.8 billion) of bond sales, compared with 194.8 billion pounds in the current year, according to the median forecast in the poll.
Boris Becker dishonestly “played” the bankruptcy system, hiding cash, property and trophies from authorities, a court has heard at the opening of his trial, The Guardian reported. The multiple-grand-slam-winner is charged with 24 counts relating to concealing assets, nine of which relate to trophies and medals won during his illustrious playing career, including from his first Wimbledon men’s single championship when he burst on to the world scene, aged just 17 years old. Becker denies all the charges.
A Moscow court said on Monday that Meta was guilty of "extremist activity," but the ruling will not affect its WhatsApp messenger service, focusing on the U.S. firm's already-banned Facebook and Instagram social networks, Reuters reported. Meta did not respond to requests for comment after Moscow's Tverskoi District Court said in a press statement that it had upheld a lawsuit filed by state prosecutors on banning the company's activities on Russian territory.
Ghana's central bank announced its biggest ever interest rate hike on Monday as it seeks to slow rampant inflation that threatens to create a debt crisis in one of West Africa's largest economies, Reuters reported. The Bank of Ghana raised its main lending rate by 250 basis points to 17%, signaling an aggressive stance against the rocketing price of goods from flour to sugar to fuel, and against a depreciating local currency that has dented investor confidence.