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By Jonathan Stempel

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Attorney General Letitia James sued two cryptocurrency companies and their promoters, saying they defrauded hundreds of thousands of victims out of more than $1 billion by preying on the religious faith of people from Haitian and other immigrant communities.

In a lawsuit filed on Thursday in a state court in Manhattan, James said investors enticed by promises of weekly profits sent... (continue reading...)

By Stephanie Hamel

(Reuters) - A Trinidad and Tobago court on Thursday lifted restrictions on a Canadian video blogger from leaving the country, after he had been charged with sedition and jailed for posting videos featuring alleged gang members criticizing the Caribbean nation's government.

Christopher Hughes, known on YouTube as "Chris Must List," appeared in court in Port of Spain, where he pleaded not guilty to publishing a seditious... (continue reading...)

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch nationalist Geert Wilders' anti-immigration party on Thursday was projected to have made large gains in the Netherlands' election for the European Parliament, an exit poll published by broadcaster NOS showed.

Wilders' PVV party, which won the national election last year but secured no seat at the previous EU election, was predicted to have won seven seats, one less than the Labour/Green Left combination.

The... (continue reading...)

PARIS (Reuters) - France plans to provide Mirage 2000 warplanes to Ukraine, President Emmanuel Macron told French TV stations on Thursday.

Macron said that on Friday, on the occasion of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's visit to France as part of D-Day anniversary celebrations, his government would announce it will provide the warplanes to Ukraine.

He did not specify how many Mirages France would provide, by when or under what... (continue reading...)

By Michelle Nichols, Arshad Mohammed and John Irish

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Three European powers have written to the U.N. Security Council detailing Iran's violations of its 2015 nuclear deal, a step diplomats said on Thursday aimed to pressure Tehran to resolve the issue diplomatically and to avoid reimposing U.N. sanctions.

The British, French and German letter did not explicitly threaten to "snap back" United Nations sanctions but... (continue reading...)