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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actress is a staunch supporter of the WikiLeaks founder – who is currently in jail in England after his asylum was withdrawn from the Ecuadorian embassy in 2019 – and recalled how she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

Published by BOOM Live By Mohammed Kudrati Hindenburg Research has called the Gautam Adani-led Adani Group’s 413-page response to its original report as hollow, accusing the energy to ports conglomerate of obfuscating its business with the Indian growth story. It says that the group addresses the concerns raised by it only fleetingly. “It also predictably

Published by City AM By Asrif Husain As the Bank of England prepares to raise interest rates again, Asrif Husain looks at what this volatility does to the financial markets and consumer credit – and the opportunities for investors. I have travelled around the world meeting issuers, strategists, and clients a lot this year. Most

Published by uPolitics.com After the White House revealed that President Joe Biden kept no visitor logs of his property in Wilmington, Delaware, where classified documents were recently discovered, Donald Trump took this opportunity to brag about extensive security measures at Mar-a-Lago. Trump utilized his platform Truth Social to accuse Biden of keeping classified documents in a “flimsy, unlocked,