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(Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department, along with a group of 30 states and the District of Columbia, filed a lawsuit to break up Live Nation on Thursday, arguing the concert promoter and its Ticketmaster unit illegally inflated concert ticket prices and hurt artists.

Politicians, concert fans and experts have called on U.S. authorities to reconsider investigating the 2010 merger of Live Nation Entertainment and Ticketmaster following the botched... (continue reading...)

By Abhirup Roy and Jody Godoy

(Reuters) - Mike Lynch, the tech founder once hailed as Britain's answer to Steve Jobs, will take the stand in his own defense on Thursday in San Francisco federal court as his trial on charges of bilking Hewlett-Packard in an $11 billion deal to acquire his company nears its end.

The testimony is a pivotal moment in the 13-year legal saga that started with HP's disastrous purchase of Autonomy, the software... (continue reading...)

LISBON (Reuters) - Portuguese police on Thursday briefly detained a man who had threatened to blow up the headquarters of the far-right party Chega and sent him for a psychiatric evaluation after finding no explosive device on him, a police official said.

The incident follows last week's assassination attempt on Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico that has raised concerns about the safety of politicians amid growing polarization and animosities... (continue reading...)

By Michelle Nichols

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations has resumed transporting humanitarian aid arriving at a U.S.-built pier off the coast of the Gaza Strip after deliveries were halted for two days because some truckloads of aid were intercepted by needy Palestinians.

Aid deliveries began arriving at a U.S.-built pier on Friday as Israel comes under growing global pressure to allow more supplies into the besieged coastal... (continue reading...)

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek police detained nine Egyptians on Thursday saying they could flee the country, despite a court ruling dismissing a case against them over a 2023 shipwreck, one of the deadliest in the Mediterranean.

The disaster shocked Europe and the case has been followed closely in Greece, which has been a gateway to the European Union for thousands of migrants and refugees.

Up to 700 migrants from Pakistan, Syria and Egypt... (continue reading...)