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Sam Bankman-Freed was sentenced to 25 years in prison for defrauding customers and investors at his cryptocurrency exchange

FTX. He told the courtroom in New York that he had made a series of bad decisions but maintained that FTX was able to pay back the billions of dollars it owed customers.

Prosecutors called the case one of the biggest financial frauds in America's history.

The fallen crypto king was convicted of seven criminal counts in November.

Russia claimed to have evidence linking the terrorist attack that killed more

than 140 people in Moscow last week with Ukrainian nationalists.

Russian investigators said the attack with Ukrainian nationalists.

Russian investigators said the attackers received cash and

cryptocouracies from Ukraine.

They said a suspect involved in financing the massacre

had been detained.

Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, has tried to implicate Ukraine even after Islamic State claimed responsibility.

The UN's top court ordered Israel to ensure that more aid reaches Gaza,

which is on the brink of a man-made famine,

since the beginning of the man-made famine.

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