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Published by BOOM Live By Ritika Jain More than two years after he was incarcerated Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan walked out of Lucknow jail on Thursday. Kappan’s release order comes more than three months after the Supreme Court and the Allahabad High Court granted him bail. A sessions court judge signed the release order earlier […]

Published by City AM By Louis Goss The UK government has vowed to “use all the tools” at its disposal to crack down on the thousands of overseas companies that have failed to report their beneficial owners with Companies House’s new property register. The government pledged to fine and prosecute the “oligarchs and non-compliant organisations”

Published by City AM By Laura McGuire London restaurateurs have described the outlook for the sector as ‘bleak’ after research has revealed that the number of hospitality businesses going bust has jumped by 65 per cent in the last year. The figures, which were released by accountancy firm Price Bailey, show that 1,880 British restaurant

Published by City AM By Louis Goss Britain has received its lowest ever score and ranking on Transparency International’s annual Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI). The drop “is a powerful indictment” in the decline in public standards, campaigners say, which have been dragged down by a series of recent government scandals around the procurement of PPE

Published by Go Kompas.com BANGKOK, KOMPAS.com – Two years after a coup snuffed out Myanmar’s short-lived democratic experiment, the country’s military is planning elections that analysts warn could spark further bloodshed as opposition to junta rule rages on. Observers also say the planned poll cannot be free and fair under the present circumstances, with one

Published by Wayarc Daily A shooting at a busy nightclub in the Mexican town of Jerez left eight people dead and injured five, the police said Sunday. The incident took place late Friday night. Heavily armed men arrived at the bar in two vehicles, burst into the club and began shooting indiscriminately, a report from

Published by Wayarc Daily A 19-year-old student from Russia’s Arkhangelsk region may face a total of ten years in prison, if convicted, for supposedly discrediting Moscow’s army and justifying terrorism. Furthermore, the teenager has also been placed on Russia’s terror list which puts her on par with ISIS, al Qaeda and the Taliban. This comes

Published by BANG Showbiz English Pamela Anderson and Julian Assange joked about getting married after a “slightly frisky” night together. The ‘Baywatch’ actress is a staunch supporter of the WikiLeaks founder – who is currently in jail in England after his asylum was withdrawn from the Ecuadorian embassy in 2019 – and recalled how she

Published by Relaxnews By Patrick Tomasso / Unsplash New York plans to significantly expand its flood monitoring network in order to better anticipate potential episodes of flooding. This decision comes after several violent and deadly storms have wreaked havoc on the East Coast of the United States in recent years. New York plans to significantly

Published by Kyodo News A reactor at Kansai Electric Power Co.’s Takahama nuclear power station in Japan’s Fukui Prefecture was automatically halted Monday after an alert went off warning of a rapid decrease in the number of neutrons within the unit, the complex’s regulator and operator said. The No. 4 reactor was halted at around