Wed 17 August 2022: South Africa can avoid possible greylisting if it were to implement recommendations contained in the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) mutual evaluation report. The FATF commenced its assessment in 2019 and published its final report on 7 October last year. The mutual evaluation report had an adverse rating under technical compliance […]
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Wed 17 August 2022: Polish firefighters have pulled 100 tonnes of dead fish from the Oder river since Friday, raising concerns of an environmental catastrophe. The worrisome incident’s cause is still a mystery. In the history of the national fireman press office, Monika Nowakowska-Drynda noted, “We’d never had an operation of this scope on a […]
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Wed 17 August 2022: The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan has been in existence for one year now, but change has been agonisingly slow; early promises on women’s rights are as yet unrealised; and the closure of schools for teenage girls continues to be a running sore for the international community. The country is in dire […]
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Wed 17 August 2022: Meta-owned One of the most widely used platforms for instant messaging is WhatsApp, which users may use on a variety of devices. For the platform to operate more efficiently, Updates and new features for WhatsApp occasionally appear. This time around, WhatsApp has released a brand-new app for Windows users that no […]
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Wed 17 August 2022: British consumer price inflation increased to 10.1% in July, its highest level since February 1982, up from a yearly rate of 9.4% in June, according to official data released on Wednesday. This increased pressure on consumers. The increase exceeded everyone’s predictions in a Reuters poll for inflation to increase to 9.8% […]
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Tue 16 August 2022: Swiss chocolate maker Lindt & Spruengli has decided to exit the Russian market because of the invasion of Ukraine, the company said. The company, famous for its Lindor chocolate balls and golden foil-wrapped Easter rabbits, had decided in March to close its shops and suspend deliveries to Russia temporarily. “We will support […]
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Tue 16 August 2022: Saudi Arabia has sentenced a women’s rights activist to 34 years in prison. Salma Al-Shehab is a PhD candidate at Britain’s University of Leeds and a mother of two. She was handed what is said to be the longest prison sentence ever given to a Saudi women’s rights defender by the […]
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Representational image. Tue 16 August 2022: Iraqi authorities claim to have found a stolen painting by famed Spanish artist Pablo Picasso said to be “worth millions of dollars” during a drug raid carried out in the province of Diyala on Saturday. “A painting belonging to the international painter Picasso was seized in their possession,” the […]
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A rocket fired from Gaza hit directly on a building in occupied Ashkelon. Tue 16 August 2022: Israel has incurred 300 million shekels (about $92 million) in losses as a result of its recent aggression on the besieged Gaza Strip, according to the Maariv newspaper. The paper said the Knesset Finance Committee held a meeting on the […]
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Tue 16 August 2022: Donald Trump asserted on Monday that FBI agents “stole” his passports during the August 8 search, a day after asking the Department of Justice to hand over the records protected by the attorney-client privilege. “Wow! In the raid by the FBI of Mar-a-Lago, they stole my three Passports (one expired), along […]
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