December2016
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Platinum Partners arrests are scant consolation for alleged victims
Dec 24, 2016News Hour: When six executives of Platinum Partners, including founder Mark Nordlicht, were arrested on Monday on federal charges of running a more than $1 billion hedge fund fraud, people who had long alleged they were... -
Save Santa’s Sherry!
Dec 24, 2016News Hour: A worrying slump in sales of Father Christmas’s favorite tipple, sherry, has prompted a British trade group to start a campaign to ensure the fortified wine doesn’t fall off menus. ‘Save Santa’s Sherry’ was... -
Tees off with Tiger Woods, Trump, taking a break from White House prep
Dec 24, 2016News Hour: U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Friday took a break from preparing to take office to engage in a pastime beloved by presidents since Dwight Eisenhower: playing 18 holes of golf. Trump, who made waves... -
Japan’s female hunters take aim at wild boar
Dec 24, 2016News Hour: Chiaki Kodama blows her deer whistle and soon a male deer wanders into sight. She slowly takes aim and squeezes the trigger. Moments later, Kodama and a friend on her first hunt are tracking... -
Leaving war-torn Syria, luxury chocolatier finds new home in Hungary
Dec 24, 2016News Hour: Bassam Ghraoui’s Syrian confectionary became synonymous with the finest gourmet chocolates anywhere before war decimated his business, and he is starting anew in Hungary with a factory to be launched next year. “It is... -
Iran allows free foreign exchange at banks in move to unify rates
Dec 24, 2016News Hour: Iran authorized some banks on Saturday to deal in foreign exchange trading at a free-market rate, the central bank said, as authorities try to unify exchange rates. Iran operates two exchange rates, a free... -
VW to produce cars in Rwanda and Kenya
Dec 24, 2016News Hour: Volkswagen is to start producing cars in Kenya and Rwanda and start a ride-hailing service in Kigali, as the German carmaker expands pay-per-use transportation business models in markets where rival Uber has not gained traction.... -
Sixteen hurt in Christmas eve blast at Catholic church in Philippines
Dec 24, 2016News Hour: Sixteen people were wounded in a grenade explosion outside a Catholic church during a Christmas eve mass in the Philippines’ restive southern island of Mindanao, a priest and police said on Saturday. Security forces... -
India arrests highlight impact of ‘sand mining mafia’ on local communities
Dec 24, 2016News Hour: The arrests of several businessmen and sacking of a senior bureaucrat in southern India have highlighted the power of the so-called “sand mining mafia”, accused of damaging the coastline and destroying livelihoods of impoverished... -
Fathers in rural India to be targeted to help stop sex trade in young girls
Dec 24, 2016News Hour: Fathers in rural India are the target of a new campaign to stop traffickers ensnaring young girls into the sex trade as research on Friday showed the average age of girls forced into prostitution...
