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Clawback After firing a number of Twitter staff in Australia, the platform's new owner Elon Musk is threatening to take them to court, demanding to claw back payments after claiming the company had overpaid them. Twitter, which Musk has since renamed to X, fired much of its remaining staff stationed in Australia in January 2023. […]
The multi-billionaire had campaigned for the payout, which is worth up to $56bn.
A tough new raft of U.S. sanctions sent jitters rippling through the Russian financial system Thursday and forced Moscow’s main financial trading platform to halt dollar and euro transactions, further raising the cost of President Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine. The sharp escalation in sanctions by the Treasury Department prompted former Russian president and prime minister Dmitry Medvedev, now a senior security official, to call on the population to “inflict maximum harm” on Western socie
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