Fri 24 February 2023: US President Joe Biden announced that the US is nominating Ajay Banga, an India-American businessman who has served as the CEO of Mastercard, to be the president of the World Bank. The decision was described by Bloomberg as a “surprise pick”, as the World Bank said on Wednesday that it would “strongly encourage” women […]
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Thu 23 February 2023: Afghanistan’s Taliban-led administration has set up a consortium of companies, including some in Russia, Iran and Pakistan, to create an investment plan focusing on power, mining and infrastructure, the acting Commerce Minister said on Wednesday, Reuters reports. The consortium included 14 Afghan businessmen and his Ministry had signed a Memorandum of Understanding with […]
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Thu 23 February 2023: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said he personally shared with Zelenskyy, in October 2021, Washington’s assessment that Russia would likely invade Ukraine. “He took it very stoically, very seriously,” Blinken said, describing the Ukrainian president’s response. The top US diplomat said he delivered the news to Zelenskyy on the […]
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Thu 23 February 2023: A local woman reported on Tuesday morning to the police that she had discovered this metallic sphere of unknown origin on Enshu beach, in the city of Hamamatsu. The husband of the woman who called the police was out for a walk about two or three days ago when he spotted […]
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Protesters on Bondi Beach in Sydney wear masks of Australia’s ex-Prime Minister Malcom Turnbull and Gautam Adani (right). Photo: (EPA) Thu 23 February 2023: The recent freefall in the Adani group’s stock prices has exposed tens of millions of dollars in Australian retirement savings, The Guardian reported. The group companies have been facing a continuing decrease in […]
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Wed 22 February 2023: A United States judge has ruled that family members of victims of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks are not entitled to funds from Afghanistan’s central bank. In the ruling on Tuesday, US District Judge George Daniels said that awarding the families money seized from the Da Afghanistan Bank (DAB) would require […]
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Wed 22 February 2023: Wikipedia’s online newspaper, written and edited by community members, has published a report claiming that their investigations reveal that the Adani group employed undeclared paid editors to write and sanitise related Wikipedia pages. While the Wikipedia report has been published in the aftermath of Hindenburg Research’s report on the Adani Group, it includes allegedly […]
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Tue 21 February 2023: A panel of Japan’s Justice Ministry proposed raising the age of consent from 13 to 16 as part of a major overhaul of sex crime legislation. Currently, The Asian country has the lowest consent age among developed countries as well as the G7 group. The legislation aims to criminalize the grooming […]
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Tue 21 February 2023: In a case involving the encouragement of violence, a Pakistani court on Monday granted protective bail to the former prime minister Imran Khan. The Lahore High Court’s two-judge bench granted the former premier a 10-day bail and directed police not to detain him until March 3. Khan has been involved in […]
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. Abroan Nissa holds a photo of her husband arrested during the crackdown [Md Meharban/Al Jazeera] Tue 21 February 2023: More than 3,000 people arrested this month, with the state’s BJP government accused of targeting Muslims in the ongoing drive. Assam, India – As Saidul Islam stares at rows of wilted cauliflowers and cabbages, the 33-year-old […]
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