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Iran and Russia signed an agreement Sunday to integrate their banking systems to help them skirt Western sanctions. Mohen Karimi, the Central Bank of Iran’s deputy governor, signed a memorandum of understanding with his Russian counterpart in Tehran Sunday.  “From now on, the financial messengers of all Iranian banks and all Russian banks are linked to each other,” Karimi told Iran’s state-run Mehr news agency. He said the memorandum of understanding includes more than 100 banks in 13 additional countries but did not name them. TURKEY’S ERDOGAN TO SWEDEN: ‘DON’T EVEN BOTHER’ WITH NATO BID IF QURAN-BURNING IS ALLOWEDIt was not clear whether…

Several possible quarterbacks were drafted after Tom Brady and retired before him. Brady spent more than half his life in the NFL. As a matter of fact, no other QB drafted in 2000 played an NFL game past 2011, but Brady beat them by over a decade.The 2000 NFL Draft Class isn’t star-studded – there are only 28 Pro Bowlers and just one Hall of Famer (Brian Urlancher) in that entire draft – but there were six quarterbacks taken before Brady that year (oh, and kicker Sebastian Janikowski was the 17th overall pick by the Oakland Raiders – Brady went…

“Was he not also entitled to the right to be safe? So when we talk about public safety, let us understand what it means in its truest form. Tyre Nichols should have been safe,” Harris said in her brief remarks at his Memphis funeral service.The vice president expressed hope that Nichols’ death might “shine a light on the path toward peace and justice” as she called on Congress to pass police reform legislation. Nichols’ funeral service took place less than a week after footage of his arrest was made public, shaking a nation accustomed to videos of police brutality, especially…

Banks that lost billions from the meltdown of Archegos Capital Management will get back as little as 5 cents on the dollar from its restructuring, with brokers such as Goldman Sachs funding the payouts using cash left in the family office’s trading accounts.Global banks, including Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley, that lost more than $10bn from the blow-up of Archegos, are expecting to recoup between 5 per cent and 20 per cent of their losses, according to people familiar with the matter. Credit Suisse, the biggest casualty of the collapse, which left it facing more than $5bn of losses, could…

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Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe says the city needs financial support from other levels of government to make up for the lost revenue it expects will be associated with a provincial housing bill. In a speech Wednesday at a special city council meeting to discuss the city’s 2023 budget, Sutcliffe said that if the city does not receive such support, it will face significant budget pressures in the coming years.“If the provincial and federal governments don’t support the financial gaps we have in transit and other areas, if we don’t receive funding to address the lost revenue associated with Bill 23…

A transgender woman is facing complaints of indecent exposure after allegedly being naked in the presence of minor girls in the women’s locker room of a YMCA in Ohio.Darren Glines, 31, was charged with three counts of indecent exposure related to incidents dating back to 2021 and 2022, according to Xenia Municipal Court documents reported by local WHIO.The outlet noted that Glines identifies as a woman and uses the name Rachel but has not undergone transgender surgery.The charges against Glines stemmed from at least three complaints of people who “reported seeing a naked male in the female’s locker room” one…

The review into booze restrictions in Alice Springs by the newly-appointed Central Australian regional controller is set to recommend a rapid return to strict alcohol bans.Prime Minister Anthony Albanese last week appointed Dorelle Anderson to the post giving her the immediate task of reviewing temporary alcohol restrictions.The federal and territory governments imposed bans on takeaway sales on Mondays and Tuesdays on top of the existing restrictions on Sundays.But Sky News Australia’s Pete Stefanovic has revealed sources have told him Ms Anderson has recommended the Northern Territory government amend its liquor act to reimpose sweeping restrictions in Central Australia including town…

A 16-year-old boy stabbed in the stomach near his high school may have been attacked by a romantic rival in a feud over a girl, police officials said Wednesday. The young victim was seriously wounded while leaving the International School of Liberal Arts in the Bronx with his girlfriend around 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, NYPD Chief of Detectives James Essig said at a press briefing. “He’s in critical condition. So this isn’t a random one. He [was] specifically targeted,” Essig told reporters. “We believe it might be the perpetrator and the victim are fighting over the same girl,” he explained. Essig…

Special delivery from the US ghost office. A Brooklyn-based indie-rocker got a package of cremated human remains belonging to a stranger in the mail — and was stunned when the funeral home that sent them initially told him it wasn’t their problem. Hamilton Leithauser, 44,  a solo performer and frontman of the popular indie-punk band The Walkmen, was gobsmacked Tuesday when he opened the cardboard container and found the ashes inside another plain cardboard box. “It’s just sort of shocking. I’m like, ‘What am I supposed to do with these?” he told The Post. “This was a person. You have to show a…