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(Reuters) – The U.S. securities regulator on Thursday raised alarm about the safety of bitcoin-themed investments, telling the fund industry they want answers to their concerns before endorsing more than a dozen proposed products based on cryptocurrencies.

RIVERSIDE, Calif., (Reuters) – The California parents accused of imprisoning their 13 children in the family’s squalid home had beaten, starved and chained the victims to their beds for years, taunting them with apple pie, according to a prosecutor on Thursday who called it a case of “human depravity.”

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Police in Brazil have seized 444 containers in an investigation into illegal logging in the country’s vast Amazon, federal authorities said on Thursday, as the nation seeks to cut down on the widespread practice.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump yesterday aligned himself solidly with conservative Republicans on immigration, criticizing a proposed bipartisan deal as “horrible” on U.S.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Haitians will no longer be eligible for U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Republican U.S. Senator Jeff Flake castigated President Donald Trump yesterday for his attacks on the media, saying Trump had embraced the despotic language of former Soviet dictator Josef Stalin and inspired modern-day authoritarians.

(Reuters) – Apple Inc will open a new campus as part of a five-year, $30 billion U.S.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Former White House strategist Steve Bannon has reached agreement with U.S.

(Reuters) – Canada said yesterday it is creating an independent watchdog to monitor and investigate claims of human rights abuses by its companies operating abroad, describing it as the first initiative of its kind in the world.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – U.S. stocks jumped yesterday and the Dow closed above 26,000 for the first time as investors’ expectations for higher earnings lifted stocks across sectors.

TORONTO, (Reuters) – Canada’s use of solitary confinement in federal prisons is unconstitutional, a Canadian judge said yesterday, in a ruling that could end the controversial practice unless Ottawa appeals the decision.

PERRIS, Calif., (Reuters) – Police said yesterday they were still seeking answers after finding 13 siblings starving in their parents’ squalid Southern California home, some of them chained to beds under “horrific” conditions in an otherwise ordinary suburb.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon declined on Tuesday to comply with a subpoena ordering him to answer questions from a House intelligence panel about his time at the White House as part of its investigation into allegations of Russian interference in the U.S.

SAN SALVADOR, (Reuters) – El Salvador is discussing a deal with Qatar under which Salvadoran migrants facing the loss of their right to stay in the United States could live and work temporarily in the Middle Eastern country, the government of the Central American nation said on Tuesday.

VANCOUVER, (Reuters) – A 20-nation meeting on North Korea agreed yesterday to consider imposing unilateral sanctions on Pyongyang that go beyond those required by U.N.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Carillion collapsed yesterday when its banks pulled the plug, triggering Britain’s biggest corporate failure in a decade and forcing the government to step in to guarantee public services from school meals to roadworks.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump yesterday blamed Senator Dick Durbin for blowing up talks on a deal to help immigrants brought to the country illegally as children and said the Democratic lawmaker misrepresented his comments about Haiti and African countries.“Senator

MUMBAI,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Andhra Pradesh will become the first state in India to target people who purchase sex in brothels as part of a crackdown on the sexual slavery of women and children, authorities said.

COLOMBO,  (Reuters) – Sri Lanka reimposed a decades-old law banning the selling of alcohol to women and preventing women from working in liquor stores on Monday – just days after it was lifted.

MUMBAI,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – India’s ambitious biometric identity project could lead to millions of people being denied access to essential services and benefits in violation of their human rights, campaigners said, ahead of key court hearings on the legitimacy of the programme.