Money laundering watchdog Financial Action Task Force drops UAE, Uganda, Barbados and Gibraltar from ‘bad boys’ roster
Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed, Minister of Foreign Affairs, who is also Chairman of the Higher Committee Overseeing the National Strategy on Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism, welcomed the move and expressed his appreciation to those who had worked to bring it about.
New UN report says rape and sexual violence in Sudan’s ongoing conflict are war crimes
The report, which covers a period from the outbreak of the fighting up to December 15, documents abuses in a country that has been largely inaccessible to aid groups and rights monitors recently, clouding the impact of a conflict that been overshadowed by wars in places like Gaza and Ukraine.
Moon landing in 50 years: Spacecraft built and flown by Texas-based private company lands near moon’s south pole
The uncrewed six-legged robot lander, dubbed Odysseus, touched down at about 2323 GMT, the company and NASA commentators said in a joint webcast of the landing from Intuitive Machines’ opens new tab mission operations centre in Houston.
Financial pledge for Kenya-led multinational security mission in Haiti nears $300 million
A US statement said Canada, Benin, France and Jamaica “announced financial, personnel, and in-kind commitments to the mission” during Thursday’s meeting. Blinken later said countries committed at least another $120 million to the initiative during the meeting.
Maize farmers in US in a quandary on back of a glut that’s driven prices into the ground
Record-large harvests in the United States and Brazil, increased competition for US grain exports, and limited domestic demand led to hefty amounts of corn locked away in storage, pushing US corn prices to their lowest level since November 2020 on Wednesday.
New York AG: Trump’s properties will be auctioned unless he pays $454m civil fraud fine
Trump’s ability to pay his mounting legal debts is increasingly murky after back-to-back courtroom losses. In January, a jury ordered him to pay $83.3 million for defaming writer E. Jean Carroll.
American students reeling under university loans forgiven as Biden writes off debts for 153,000
The first round of forgiveness from the SAVE plan will clear $1.2 billion in loans. The borrowers will get emails with a message from Biden notifying them that “all or a portion of your federal student loans will be forgiven because you qualify for early loan forgiveness under my Administration’s SAVE Plan.”
US censorship: First Amendment must keep pace with ‘the rise of behemoth social media platforms’
An amicus brief is filed by non-parties to a lawsuit to provide information that has a bearing on the issues and to assist the court in reaching the correct decision.
Drums of war: US tells Rwanda and Congo they must ‘walk back from the brink of war’
Congolese authorities accuse the central African country of actively supporting M23. Congo’s UN Ambassador Zenon Ngay Mukongo urged the Security Council to demand that Rwanda withdraw its troops from the country without pre-conditions, and halt all support for M23.
Samson and Delilah: Judge lays out how plot to assassinate Haitian President Moise was masterminded by his widow
Moise was shot dead when armed men broke into his Port-au-Prince bedroom on the night of July 7, 2021, a raid that left the former first lady injured. The judge’s order calls for the arrest and trial of those charged.
