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On 10–11 Nov 2025, Southwark Crown Court opened a two-day hearing to decide the jail terms of Chinese fugitive Zhimin Qian and Malaysian partner Seng Hok Ling after both admitted laundering 61,000 Bitcoins seized by UK police.
On 11 Nov 2025 Google formally committed €5.5 billion to construct a new Dietzenbach data centre, enlarge its Hanau campus and expand German offices, anchoring the company’s biggest European investment yet.
On 10 Nov 2025 Ukraine’s anti-corruption agencies moved from covert probe to open action, raiding 70 sites and publishing wiretaps that allegedly show a 10-15 % kickback cartel siphoning funds from state nuclear operator Energoatom.
After Ottawa invoked Labour Code Section 107 and the CIRB ordered flight attendants back by 2 p.m. ET Sunday with binding arbitration, CUPE refused, forcing Air Canada to postpone its planned Sunday flight restart to Monday evening and extend widespread cancellations.
On 18 Aug 2025, Justice Michael Lee imposed a A$90m civil penalty on Qantas for unlawfully outsourcing 1,820 ground roles in late 2020, concluding a five-year case and adding to the A$120m compensation agreed in 2024.
With Washington’s tariff pause expiring in early August (Aug 1) and reciprocal duties resuming on Aug 7, Australian polling now shows 42% of voters more worried about US trade barriers than China’s military build-up (37%), signaling a sharp shift from security to geoeconomic risk, while Asia’s trade hubs brace for sector-specific hikes.
On 15 Aug 2025 the Federal Reserve rescinded its 2023 supervisory letter and folded the special monitoring of banks’ crypto and fintech exposures back into its routine examination process.
On 15 Aug 2025 the U.S. Second Circuit temporarily froze Judge Loretta Preska’s 30 Jun order compelling Argentina to hand over its 51 % holding in YPF to satisfy a US$16.1 billion judgment, giving Buenos Aires time to pursue its appeal.
On 16-17 Aug 2025 Washington told New Delhi its delegation would skip the 25-29 Aug Bilateral Trade Agreement talks, effectively freezing negotiations until a new 50 % tariff regime on Indian goods is addressed.
On 13 Aug 2025 the Canadian Union of Public Employees gave Air Canada a 72-hour strike notice, leading the airline to start cancelling flights on 14 Aug and plan a full halt of mainline and Rouge operations at 01:00 EST on 16 Aug.
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