PRESS DIGEST- Wall Street Journal - Nov 22

Nov 22 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories in the Wall Street Journal. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

- Israel said it agreed to a deal with Hamas to free 50 civilian hostages held by militants in Gaza in return for the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails and a series of pauses in fighting.

- North Korea said it had successfully placed its homegrown spy satellite into orbit, a much-anticipated attempt after a pair of failed tries this year and a recent assumption that the Russians would help fix matters.

- Binance chief Changpeng Zhao stepped down and pleaded guilty to violating criminal U.S. anti-money-laundering requirements, in a deal that might preserve the company’s ability to continue operating, according to court documents.

- Citigroup has named senior leaders for banking in Asia, part of the U.S. bank’s ongoing global restructuring.

- The U.S. government said Tuesday it would impose visa restrictions on individuals running charter flights into Nicaragua, flooding the Central American country with tens of thousands of U.S.-bound migrants, mostly from Haiti, Cuba and Africa.

- A group of lenders at Endo International made a new proposal that would pay up to $465 million to the U.S. government agencies that objected to the bankrupt pharmaceutical company’s restructuring plan to hand control to the creditors.

(Compiled by Bengaluru newsroom)