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Türkiye
- ConfirmedFund payouts reach 161 billion liraThe Directorate of Communications said about 161 billion lira had been paid to 444,893 investors in 119 funds that are being wound up after the fund scandal.
- ConfirmedFive jailed in Mahiroğlu inquiryA court jailed five of the eight people detained in the second wave of the bribery, bid-rigging and money-laundering investigation into Halk TV’s owner Cafer Mahiroğlu.
Tech and AI
- ConfirmedBessent blames Commerce over NvidiaScott Bessent said several agencies had wanted Megaspeed, the Nvidia customer linked to suspected spy Alice Huang, on the export blacklist for months, but that Commerce “has the pen”.
- ConfirmedStarship booster misses tower catchSpaceX launched Starship from Texas on Friday hoping to catch both stages with its tower arms, but the booster malfunctioned and came down in the Gulf of Mexico, the South China Morning Post reported.
Around the World
- ConfirmedFAA halts departures across the USThe US aviation regulator stopped all departures nationwide on Friday after a telecommunications outage hit all 22 Air Route Traffic Control Centers; planes already in the air could land.
- ConfirmedAll safe after New Orleans collisionThe tanker Atlantic Asphalt struck the paddle-wheel cruise boat American Heritage at the Port of New Orleans on Friday; all 129 passengers and the crew were accounted for.
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