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A judge ruled that Donald Trump fraudulently inflated the value of his assets and his net worth for a decade to secure better loans.

The ruling resolves the core legal claim in a civil lawsuit brought by New York's top prosecutor against Mr. Trump, his adult son and the Trump organization.

The trial is due to start on Monday.

Six other claims will still play out in court. Mr. Trump denies wrongdoing.

America's Federal Trade Commission and 17 states filed a lawsuit against Amazon alleging that the online retailer illegally holds monopoly power and keeps prices artificially high, charges sellers unfair fees and stifles competition.

Amazon's general counsel called the lawsuit wrong on the facts and the law.

The increasingly active anti-trust watchdog is led by Lena Khan, who has long criticized Amazon's practices.

President Joe Biden visited striking auto workers in Detroit.

The first time a sitting American president has joined a picket line.

Members of the United Auto Workers Union are on strike mostly over pay.

Mr. Biden's trip to Michigan, a swing state in next year's election, proceeds a trip on Wednesday by his potential rival for the presidency, Donald Trump.

The death toll from an explosion on Monday evening in Nagorno-Karabakh rose to at least 125.

The cause of the blast at a fuel storage facility remained unclear.

Around 28,000 ethnic Armenians have fled the enclave for Armenia since Azerbaijan took control of the region last week.

An envoy from Armenia will meet with Azerbaijany counterparts in Brussels on Tuesday.

The Speaker of Canada's House of Commons, Anthony Rotor, resigned after inviting a 98-year-old Ukrainian man who served in a Nazi army unit during the Second World War to Parliament.

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