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Sotheby’s has reported an 88% plunge in its core earnings and a 25% decline in auction sales, as a chill in the art market hits one of the industry’s most famous brokers. First-half figures at Sotheby’s main auction business have revealed the extent of the financial…

Less than 24 hours after clashing with the EU’s foreign policy chief at a meeting of EU foreign ministers, Hungary’s top diplomat Péter Szijjártó met with the head of Russia's state-owned energy giant Gazprom. #HiveNews | #Press | #PlebChain…

Residents of Indian-controlled Kashmir are gearing up for their first regional election in a decade that will allow them to have their own truncated government, also known as a local assembly, instead of remaining under New Delhi’s direct rule. #HiveNews | #Press | #PlebChain…

A standoff between a Brazilian Supreme Court judge and Elon Musk has intensified with the billionaire's Starlink company claiming its assets had been frozen amid a feud over his social media platform X. 🇧🇷 The episode began on August 28 when Brazilian Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes threatened

Rio de Janeiro has a new public enemy: plushies. Or, more specifically, the joystick-controlled claw machines that dispense them. On Wednesday, Rio police carried out 16 search warrants targeting the machines that elicit exhilaration among children and adults alike. But police said the claw machines defraud users who believe…

French prosecutors on Wednesday freed #Telegram CEO Pavel Durov from police custody after four days of questioning over allegations that the messaging app is being used for illegal activities. Durov was detained on Saturday at Le Bourget airport outside Paris as part of a judicial inquiry opened last month involving…

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has become the eighth US company — and first group outside the technology sector — to reach a valuation of $1tn. Berkshire has been transformed by Buffett over the past six decades into a dominant force that touches almost every corner of the American economy. Buffett,

The Georgian government’s plans to outlaw opposition parties if it wins October’s parliamentary election would destroy what’s left of the country’s democracy and force a tough response from the West, the EU has warned. #HiveNews | #Press | #PlebChain…

Israeli forces rescued a man taken hostage in the Hamas-led attacks on Oct. 7 during an operation in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military said on Tuesday. The man, a member of the country’s Bedouin Arab minority, is the eighth hostage to be rescued alive of the approximately…

The United Arab Emirates announced it had asked the French government to allow consular access to Telegram CEO Pavel Durov, who is currently in police custody in Paris. #HiveNews | #Press | #PlebChain…

The collapse of a dam in Sudan’s eastern Red Sea state over the weekend swept away villages, houses and cars and left dozens missing and feared dead, according to local media. The dam’s failure is the latest in a slew of crises plaguing the African nation, which is…

President Emmanuel Macron said that the French government was not involved in the arrest of Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov. #HiveNews | #Press | #PlebChain…