| |  |  | The Reuters Daily Briefing | Wednesday, December 7, 2022 by Linda Noakes | Hello Here's what you need to know. The Trump Organization has been found guilty of tax fraud, Germany has arrested 25 suspected of a violent far-right plot, and Reuters has uncovered a secret abortion program run by the Nigerian military | | | | | Today's biggest stories  FILE PHOTO: An aerial view of Maiduguri, he headquarters of Nigeria's war against Islamist insurgents, November 23, 2017. REUTERS/Paul Carsten WORLD Since at least 2013, the Nigerian military has conducted a secret, systematic and illegal abortion program in the country’s northeast, ending at least 10,000 pregnancies among women and girls, a Reuters investigation has found. Many had been kidnapped and raped by Islamist militants. Resisters were beaten, held at gunpoint or drugged into compliance, witnesses say.
German authorities detained 25 members and supporters of a far-right group that the prosecutor's office said were preparing a violent overthrow of the state, with some members suspected of plotting an armed attack on the parliament. The suspects subscribed to a mixed bag of conspiracy theories, with the Reichsbuerger and QAnon ideologies among them, authorities said.
A third Russian airfield was set ablaze by a drone strike a day after Ukraine demonstrated an apparent new ability to penetrate hundreds of kilometers into Russia with attacks on two air bases. Here's what you need to know about the conflict right now.
China announced the most sweeping changes to its tough anti-COVID regime since the pandemic began three years ago, loosening rules that curbed the spread of the virus but had hobbled the world's second largest economy and sparked protests.
A sister of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has condemned his crackdown on nationwide protests and called on the widely-feared Revolutionary Guards to lay down their weapons, according to a letter published by her France-based son. |  Lawyers Michael van der Veen, William Brennan and Alan Futerfas listen as the jury foreperson rises to read the guilty verdict in the Trump Organization's criminal tax trial in Manhattan Criminal Court, December 6, 2022, in this courtroom sketch. REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg U.S. Donald Trump's real estate company was convicted of carrying out a 15-year-long criminal scheme to defraud tax authorities, adding to the legal woes facing the former U.S. president as he campaigns for the office again in 2024. Here's how the Trump Organization cheated on taxes.
Democrat Raphael Warnock won re-election to the Senate in a hard-fought Georgia runoff, strengthening his party's razor-thin majority as he fought off a challenge by Republican former football star Herschel Walker. Here are three takeaways from the runoff.
Hardline Republican lawmaker Andy Biggs announced he will challenge House of Representatives party chief Kevin McCarthy for the House speakership, a prospect that could lead to party turmoil when the Republican-led chamber convenes in January.
The Supreme Court is set to hear a Republican appeal that could transform U.S. elections by giving politicians more power over voting rules and curbing the ability of state courts to scrutinize their actions in a major case involving the composition of North Carolina's congressional districts.
A bill protecting federal recognition of same-sex marriages that has the support of both LGBT advocates and religious groups is expected to pass the House of Representatives this week with bipartisan support, a sign of a significant cultural shift in a divided nation.
| BUSINESS The biggest U.S. banks are bracing for a worsening economy next year as inflation threatens consumer demand, according to executives. Central bankers, who only a decade ago were feted for their part in rescuing the economy from the global financial crisis, now have their credibility on the line as they struggle to deal with inflation not seen for decades.
India's central bank raised its key policy rate by 35 basis points to 6.25%, the highest in over three years and its fifth straight increase, while the Bank of Canada is expected to hike its benchmark overnight rate to its highest level in 14 years.
In the hazy outlook for all major central banks next year, the Bank of England's trajectory seems peculiarly uncertain as markets appear at loggerheads with BoE guidance and forecasters, says Reuters columnist Mike Dolan.
China's exports and imports shrank at their steepest pace in at least 2-1/2 years in November, as feeble global and domestic demand, COVID-led production disruptions and a property slump at home piled pressure on the world's second-biggest economy.
Euro zone gross domestic product grew by slightly more than initially estimated, data from the European statistics agency Eurostat showed, with household spending and business investment propping up the economy.
Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC said it would more than triple its planned investment at its new Arizona plant to $40 billion, among the largest foreign investments in U.S. history, as President Joe Biden visited and hailed the project.
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