Web Stories Sunday, December 22

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy hailed Oleksandr Usyk’s victory over Tyson Fury to retain the WBA (Super), WBO and WBC world heavyweight titles in Riyadh, saying the boxer embodied the fighting spirit of Ukrainians. Undefeated Usyk, who took Fury’s WBC belt in their first bout in May, beat the British two-time…

NEW YORK :The U.S. dollar pulled back from a two-year high on Friday, but was heading for its third-straight week of gains, with data showing a slowdown in inflation two days after the Federal Reserve cut interest rates and indicated inflation was stubborn enough to scale back cuts in 2025.The dollar was down 0.72 per cent against a basket of six other currencies at 107.64 after spiking as high as 108.54 – its highest level…

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SAO PAULO: At least 38 people were killed in a bus crash in southeastern Brazil on Saturday (Dec 21), officials said, in what President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva called a “terrible tragedy”. The accident in Minas Gerais state, involving a bus that caught fire in the collision, is the worst seen…

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U.S. billionaire businessman Frank McCourt is crafting a fundamental overhaul of TikTok’s business model as part of a plan to bid for the Chinese-owned short-form video app, he told Reuters.McCourt, who formerly owned the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team, said he has received verbal funding commitments totaling $20 billion from…

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