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Alberto Fujimori, Peru’s divisive former president, died aged 86. Mr Fujimori’s decade in office between 1990 and 2000 was marked by authoritarian rule. While many Peruvians credit him for propelling growth and fighting Maoist terrorism, others remember his trampling of democracy and complicity in a death squad. In 2009 he was sentenced to 25 years in prison for several convictions, including murder. Last year he was released from jail on health grounds.
Updated September 10, 2024 at 9:06 a.m. EDT|Published September 10, 2024 at 5:41 a.m. EDT
BRUSSELS — The European Union’s top court ruled Tuesday that Apple and Google must pay billions in back taxes and antitrust fines, respectively, in two landmark cases that delivered a major win for the bloc’s efforts to regulate U.S. tech giants.
European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde gestures as she addresses a press conference on the Eurozone’s monetary policy, at the central bank’s headquarters in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany, on July 18, 2024.Photo: Kirill Kudryavtsev/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
Traders work on the New York Stock Exchange floor on Sept. 9, 2024.
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U.S. stock futures slipped Tuesday night as investors assessed the presidential debate between Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris and looked toward the August consumer inflation report due Wednesday morning.
