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    Chris Hayes Turns Jeffrey Clark Lawyer's TV Fear Into Brutal Reality

    The MSNBC host teased the former Trump DOJ official's attorney for name-dropping the network during a disbarment hearing.

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    US cryptocurrency ETF inflows pick up as bitcoin price recovers

    Inflows into the nine recently launched exchange-traded funds (ETFs) tied to bitcoin have resumed their upward trajectory this week after the cryptocurrency's price bounced back from its dip last week. "The resumption in bitcoin's strong performance is sparking renewed interest in the ETFs," said Todd Rosenbluth, head of research at VettaFi, an analysis firm. The nine funds that made their debut in January pulled in nearly $1 billion in assets in the first two days of this week, according to d

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    Delhi Chief Minister Kejriwal's custody extended until April 1 in graft case

    NEW DELHI (Reuters) -An Indian court extended the custody of opposition leader and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal until April 1 on Thursday in a graft case related to the national capital territory's liquor policy, local media said. India's financial crime-fighting agency arrested Kejriwal last week in connection with corruption allegations related to the city's liquor policy and he was remanded to its custody until Thursday, weeks before India begins voting in general elections on April

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    Marcos says Philippines will not be 'cowed into silence' by China

    President Ferdinand Marcos said Thursday the Philippines will not be "cowed into silence" by Beijing after confrontations in the South China Sea that injured Filipino troops and damaged vessels.Beijing and Manila have a long history of maritime territorial disputes in the South China Sea and there have been repeated confrontations between their vessels near disputed reefs in recent months.

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    Sam Bankman-Fried to be sentenced for multi-billion dollar FTX fraud

    Sam Bankman-Fried, the former billionaire cryptocurrency wunderkind, is set to be sentenced on Thursday over his conviction for stealing $8 billion from customers of the now-bankrupt FTX exchange he founded. Bankman-Fried, 32, faces the prospect of decades behind bars after a jury found him guilty in November on seven fraud and conspiracy counts. The hearing will mark the culmination of Bankman-Fried's downfall from an ultra-wealthy cryptocurrency entrepreneur and major political donor to U.S.

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    The highs and lows of recent China-Australia relations

    China on Thursday announced the lifting of punitive tariffs on Australian wine, in a sign that the precarious bilateral relationship could be improving despite setbacks.- Wine tariffs lifted - China's commerce ministry said on Thursday it was lifting punitive tariffs on imports of Australian wine, a move that Canberra's top politicians said would "benefit both Australian producers and Chinese consumers".

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    China ships Tibetan glacier water to climate-threatened Maldives

    China has sent more than a million bottles of water from melting Tibetan glaciers to the Maldives, officials said Thursday, a gift from the world's highest mountains to a low-lying archipelago threatened by rising seas.The Maldives foreign ministry said the water was a gift from Yan Jinhai, the chairman of the Xizang Autonomous Region, or Tibet, lying more than 3,385 kilometres (2,100 miles) away on the far side of the world's highest mountain range.

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