Wed 01 February 2023: Credit Suisse Group AG has stopped accepting Gautam Adani’s group of companies bonds as collateral for margin loans to its private banking clients, indicating that the Indian tycoon’s finances are being scrutinized following allegations of fraud by short seller Hindenburg Research. Adani Group shares were in freefall on Wednesday, when Union Budget […]
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Wed 01 February 2023: The Southern African Development Community (SADC) leaders have called on the Kingdom of Eswatini to urgently initiate a national dialogue as tensions continue to rise in that country. This comes after the murder of a leading human rights lawyer and political activist in the Kingdom of Eswatini, Thulani Masek,o who was […]
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Wed 01 February 2023: Infosys, an Indian IT firm, is in a dispute with the UK’s tax agency over a multimillion-pound corporation tax bill, The Guardian reported. The company that Rishi Sunak’s father-in-law NR Narayana Murthy founded is involved in a multimillion dollar legal battle with UK tax authorities. RISHI SUNAK, WIFE AKSHATA MURTY DEBUT […]
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(Image credit: NASA/MSFC/Aaron Kingery) Wed 01 February 2023: On Wednesday, a green-hued comet is expected to be the most visible to stargazers as it passes Earth and the sun for the first time in about 50,000 years. According to NASA, the dirty snowball was discovered less than a year ago and last passed close to […]
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Wed 01 February 2023: On February 24 of this year, the Russia-Ukraine war will have lasted a full year; nonetheless, there is no sign of a resolution, and many people are still unsure of what their futures contain. In the midst of the bombings and sanctions, a saga that has been ongoing since Russia invaded […]
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Tue 31 January 2023: After frantically combing through the debris of a devastated mosque, throughout the night – and Tuesday morning, police called off the search for survivors of a terrorist suicide bombing, in the highly guarded site, where several hundred police – and army men, had gathered for afternoon prayers. According to the medical […]
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Tue 31 January 2023: In his first public address while in the country, Pope Francis called a stop to the “exploitation” of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the entire African continent. “It is a tragedy that these lands, and more generally the whole African continent, continue to endure various forms of exploitation. Political […]
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Tue 31 January 2023: The Campaign Against Arms Trade group says the weapons exports have contributed to the deaths of thousands of civilians. A campaign group has launched a courtroom battle against the United Kingdom’s arms sales to Saudi Arabia, warning the weapons are worsening a major humanitarian disaster in war-torn Yemen. The United Kingdom’s High Court […]
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Tue 31 January 2023: In a four-day investigation across the state, the New South Wales (NSW) state police in Australia reported on Tuesday that they had detained over 600 perpetrators of domestic abuse, Anadolu Agency reported. Following a new high-impact operation targeting the state’s most dangerous domestic violence offenders, NSW police said in a statement […]
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An exploded PFM-1S antipersonnel mine, also called a ‘butterfly’ or ‘petal’ mine, found by HRW in the Izyum area in September 2022 [Courtesy of Human Rights Watch] Tue 31 January 2023: Ukraine should investigate the “apparent use” of banned antipersonnel landmines by its troops in the northeastern area of Izyum when it was under Russian […]
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