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NEW YORK AP 鈥?Deutsche Bank agreed Friday to pay fines and penalties of more than $100 million to avoid a criminal prosecution on charges it participated in a foreign bribery scheme.Lawyers for the bank waived its right to face an indictment on conspiracy charges during a teleconference with a federal judge in New York City.Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn didn ;t reveal at the hearing which nations were involved. Previously, the bank has agreed to a Securities and Exchange Commission fine of $16 million to resolve separate allegations of corrupt dealings in Russia and China.A Deutsche Bank spokesman, Dan Hunter, declined to comment on the specifics of the case. But he said that th
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HAVANA AP 鈥?Cubas National Assembly ratified President Miguel D铆az-Canel on Wednesday for a new five-year term, in a decision to maintain continuity as the island faces a deep economic crisis.More than 400 representativ
yeezy es to the assembly who were ratified by voters in March took office early Wednesday and then convened the chamber to elect the governments leadership and the president. D铆az-Canel obtained the votes of 459 of the 462 legislators present.Vice President Salvador Vald茅s Mesa also was ratified, by 439 votes.In his new term, D铆az-Canel must de
stanley cup al with a severe recession prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic, soaring inflation triggered by a series of financial policy decisions and strict sanctions imposed by the U.S. He also must grapple with discontent among many Cubans expressed in part through record rates of emigration to the U.S. and elsewhere.The president himself expressed his strong personal dissatisfaction in December that he was
stanley cup not able to improve the economic situation. But he rejected any change to Cubas political system. which enshrines the Communist Party in the constitution as the leader of society and the only legal party. I refuse to demonize socialism, because socialism is, in essence, a system aimed at achieving the greatest possible social justice, D铆az-Canel said at the time.READ MORE: Sanctions on Russia mean a struggle for Cuban car owners looking for partsD铆az-Canel, a slow-talking, gray-haired former engineer who turns 63 this week, also he
