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Team Holcim-PRB have filed a protest against 11th Hour Racing as the result of The Ocean Race 2022-23 remains up in the air.Team Holcim-PRB are currently one point ahead of 11th Hour Racing in the standings after the final leg finished in Genova, Italy on Tuesday.However, the standings are provisional as 11th Hour Racing have a redress hearing on Thursday, June 29 following a crash at the start of the leg with GUYOT environnement – Team Europe.The Ocean Race’A crazy adventure!’ – Team… Read the full article here

Amazon Prime Day may not start until July 11th, but early deals are already trickling out. We’re expecting to see some worthwhile discounts on wireless earbuds, noise-canceling headphones, tablets, TVs, smart home tech, games, and other gadgets on the actual days of, with the early deals functioning as a kind of small temperature check.As the ghosts of Prime Days past can tell us, the ahead-of-schedule deals are almost always on Amazon-owned devices and brands. There are sure to be more… Read the full article here

Receive free Israel updatesWe’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Israel news every morning. Two prominent critics of the Israeli government’s plans to overhaul the judiciary are being investigated by a law enforcement task force set up by Itamar Ben-Gvir, the extreme-right national security minister.Ehud Barak, a former prime minister, and the former leftwing MP Yair Golan have both called for non-violent resistance to plans pushed by Benjamin… Read the full article here

Bankrupt crypto exchange FTX is one step closer to relaunching as an entirely new exchange.According to a June 28 report from the Wall Street Journal, FTX restructuring chief John Ray said the company had “begun the process of soliciting interested parties to the reboot of the FTX.com exchange.”Sources familiar with the matter said the firm has been holding talks with investors around financing the potential reboot. Blockchain lending company Figure is among the parties who have… Read the full article here

Colleen Ballinger has denied allegations she “groomed” and formed inappropriate relationships with underage fans.  The YouTuber, 36, who initially found fame with her alter ego Miranda Sings, recently took to social media to refute the claims through a song titled “Toxic Gossip Train.” In a YouTube video posted on Wednesday, June 28, Ballinger played the ukulele and claimed viewers were on a “one-way ticket to manipulation station” while the internet “ties me to… Read the full article here

The long-awaited trial into Mozambique’s ‘hidden’ debt, which has been in preparation for over four years at the High Court in London, may not go ahead.That, at any rate, is the purpose of a motion filed by the parties accused by the administration of President Filipe Nyusi.With just three months to go before the scheduled start of the 12-week trial, merchant banks Credit Suisse and VTB Capital, as well as the shipyard company Privinvest and its owner, the… Read the full article here

The Ondo State Police Command, on Wednesday, confirmed the arrest of three persons in connection with the alleged killing of a naval officer identified simply as Akingbohunmi, in the Idoani community in the Ose Local Government Area of the state. PUNC Metro gathered that some hoodlums attacked Akingbohunmi on Monday during an argument with a commercial motorcyclist in the state. After the attack, Akingbohunmi, who sustained life-threatening injuries, was rushed to… Read the full article here

A 30-year-old man, Babatunde Olayinka, was on Monday arraigned by the police before a Magistrates’ Court sitting in Yaba, Lagos State, for allegedly stealing phones valued at N680,000, belonging to two students of the Yaba College of Technology. Olayinka was arraigned before Magistrate O. Y Adefope on two counts bordering on stealing. The prosecutor, Haruna Magaji, told the court that the defendant committed the offence around 2pm on June 7, 2023, at the Yaba… Read the full article here

Greetings from Ikot Ekpene where I and my egg-head colleagues have been building the capacity of state lawmakers from some of the South-East and South-South states in the last 10 days. The induction workshop was organised by the German International Non-Governmental Organisation, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung in collaboration with the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies. The participants were appreciative as most of them are first-timers in the… Read the full article here

As part of its Corporate Social Responsibility, Shell Petroleum Development Company-operated joint venture, comprising SPDC, Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd, TotalEnergies and NAOC, has kicked off its “Vision First Initiative”, a community-focused eye care programme, in Bayelsa and Rivers states. The free critical eye care, including surgeries, took place at Edeoha community in Ahoada East Local Government Area, Rivers State and Onopa Community in … Read the full article here