Wed 28 September 2022: The National Assembly has approved four Bills aimed at regulating transport economy and establishing a land court, amongst others. The four Bills, passed during a hybrid plenary held on Tuesday, include the Land Court Bill; the Drugs and Drug Trafficking Amendment Bill; the Economic Regulation of Transport Bill, and the National […]
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Wed 28 September 2022: A number of apps owned by Russian technology giant VK have been removed by Apple from the App Store. VKontakte, an app that has been downloaded hundreds of millions of times from the Apple App Store, was one of the apps in this group. Even though Apple has “blocked some VK […]
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Wed 28 September 2022: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has taken aim at new British financial plans that have roiled markets, warning that “large and untargeted fiscal packages” would likely increase inequality in the United Kingdom and could undermine monetary policy. In its first comments on Tuesday on plans by the UK’s new finance minister Kwasi […]
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Wed 28 September 2022: In offshore trading, the Chinese yuan hit a record low against the US dollar, joining a long list of other currencies that have seen significant drops against the dollar. According to the Bloomberg news agency, the offshore yuan, which is traded outside of mainland China, dropped to $7.2386 against the dollar […]
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PFI, SDPI workers protest in Hubballi. Credit: PTI Photo Wed 28 September 2022: After authorities detained more than 100 PFI members this month, India declared the Muslim organization Popular Front of India (PFI) and its affiliates illegal, accusing them of supporting “terrorism,” and banned them for five years. “The Popular Front of India and its […]
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Wed 28 September 2022: Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz named his son and heir, Prince Mohammed bin Salman, as the Kingdom’s Prime Minister and his second son, Prince Khalid as Defence Minister, a Royal Decree said on Tuesday, Reuters reports. The reshuffle kept another son, Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, as Energy Minister, the Royal Decree, carried […]
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Tue 27 September 2022: After thousands of military-aged men crossed into nearby countries, Moscow declared on Tuesday that it would not ask for the extradition of Russians who had left the country in order to avoid being called up to fight in Ukraine. “The Russian ministry of defence has not sent any request to the […]
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Tue 27 September 2022: Member states of the European Union are racing to investigate sudden and unexplained leaks in two Russian gas pipelines beneath the Baltic Sea, infrastructure at the heart of a dispute between Moscow and the EU. Sweden’s Maritime Authority issued a warning on Tuesday about two leaks in the Nord Stream 1 […]
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Tue 27 September 2022: The board of power utility Eskom is expected to be “reconstituted and restructured” following a meeting with Department of Public Enterprises Minister, Pravin Gordhan. The State-owned electricity company has been facing serious and recurring challenges since June this year – reaching a nadir of Stage 6 load shedding twice over the […]
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Tue 27 September 2022: Every year September 27 is celebrated as World Tourism Day to mark the anniversary of the adoption of the Statutes of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO). On the occasion of World Tourism Day 2022, let us analyze whether international tourism reached a pre-pandemic level or not. Although international tourism […]
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