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It is announced that the abandoned Six Flags New Orleans amusement park, which has been closed since Hurricane Katrina struck the park and New Orleans, will be demolished beginning next month. Bayou Phoenix is expected to rebuild the area as a $500 million complex with youth sports fields, hotels, shops, a movie studio and a waterpark.
2024-08-29

The European Union sends its first transfer of €1.5 billion (US$1.63 billion) in proceeds from frozen Russian assets to Ukraine for military and infrastructure support. The Kremlin denounces the transfer as "illegal" under international law and pledges legal retaliation.
2024-07-26

A nine-member jury in Manhattan federal court finds former U.S. President Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing magazine writer E. Jean Carroll in the 1990s, and also finds him liable for defaming her. Trump is ordered to pay Carroll $5 million.
2023-05-9

The Pentagon announces that it will send Ukraine an additional $1 billion in military assistance, including tens of thousands more munitions and explosives, the largest such aid package to the country since the start of the invasion.
2022-08-8

The Biden administration approves a $735-million weapons sale to Israel.
2021-05-17

Microsoft agrees to buy video game holding company ZeniMax Media, including Bethesda Softworks and their following subsidiaries for $7.5 billion, in what is the biggest and most expensive takeover in the history of the video game industry.
2020-09-21

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki proposes a €1 billion (US$1.2 billion) stabilization fund by the European Central Bank to revitalize the Belarusian economy amid the protests.
2020-09-17

U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer in San Francisco approves German automaker Volkswagen $14.7 billion settlement with federal and California regulators and the owners of the 475,000 polluting diesel vehicles over diesel emissions cheating scandal. Volkswagen still faces billions of dollars more in fines and litigation.
2016-10-25

Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte unintentionally reveals that a US$1 million ransom was given to the Abu Sayyaf terror group in exchange for a Norwegian hostage.
2016-08-26

The Government of Japan intervenes to reduce the exchange rate of the Japanese yen with the United States dollar after the yen reached record highs.
2011-10-31