Published February 27, 2022 Ukraine The central bank is cracking down on digital money transfers in one of the latest measures implemented under a nationwide declaration of martial law. Kuna, a popular Ukrainian crypto exchange, shows that Ukrainian buyers are paying a premium for Tether’s stablecoin USDT, which is pegged …
Read More »Meet the Falcon Protecting Your Flight at Tampa International | Florida News
By CHRISTOPHER SPATA, Tampa Bay Times TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — The hitman stalked his victims from a slow-moving pickup truck on a Wednesday morning. His dark eyes were intensely watchful, but, seeing her dejected, Cheddar grew impatient and ruffled. She wanted to kill. The truck approached, the window rolled down, …
Read More »FG targets $ 40 billion investment in digital infrastructure by 2025
the The federal government has said it expects $ 40 billion in private capital investment in digital infrastructure by 2025. The government revealed this in its “National Development Plan 2021-2025: Volume I.” He said: “To achieve the objectives defined in the sector, the estimated public investment is 150 billion naira …
Read More »Judge upholds ruling against NYT over Project Veritas memos
NEW YORK –A New York judge upheld an order preventing The New York Times from publishing documents between conservative group Project Veritas and its lawyer and ruled that the newspaper must immediately waive confidential legal notes it obtained. Westchester County State Supreme Court Justice Charles D. Wood on Thursday, released …
Read More »Missing Chinese tennis star reappears in public in Beijing
BEIJING – Missing tennis star Peng Shuai reappeared in public at a youth tournament in Beijing on Sunday, according to photos released by the organizer, as the ruling Communist Party tried to allay fears abroad while by suppressing information in China about Peng after she accused a senior executive of …
Read More »Buhari unveils eNaira on Monday, experts say e-money is beneficial and risky
NIKE POPOOLA, SAMI OLATUNJI and AMARACHI ORJIUDE Posted 24 October 2021 The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retired), will unveil the Central Bank of Nigeria’s digital currency called eNaira on Monday at the State House, Abuja. The digital currency, which was due to be unveiled on October 1, 2021, to …
Read More »Amnesty calls for COVID-19 investigation into Italian nursing homes | Health Info
By NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press ROME (AP) – Amnesty International calls for an independent parliamentary inquiry into COVID-19 deaths in Italian nursing homes and reports of retaliation against nursing home staff who denounced the dangerous conditions there low. Amnesty based its findings on interviews with 34 health workers, as well …
Read More »Kosovo war veterans plead innocent to witness bullying | World news
By MIKE CORDER, Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) – Two leaders of a Kosovo veterans association pleaded innocent on Thursday to charges including obstruction of justice and intimidation of witnesses, as their trial opened before a court in The Hague. Hysni Gucati, who was president of the Kosovo Liberation …
Read More »veteran Pau Gasol announces his retirement from basketball | Sports News
By TALES AZZONI, AP sports writer MADRID (AP) – Wishing his “older brother” Kobe Bryant was there by his side, Pau Gasol finally ended a basketball career that went “far beyond my dreams and expectations”. Gasol announced his retirement from basketball on Tuesday after a career that spanned more than …
Read More »2 Koreas re-establish hotline despite North missile tests | World news
By HYUNG-JIN KIM, Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – North Korea and South Korea re-established a blocked communications hotline after weeks of disruption in a small and fragile reconciliation step on Monday, as the North struggles to win foreign concessions with a mixture of conciliatory gestures and missile tests. …
Read More »Oromo protest in Ethiopia, demands freedom for jailed leaders | World news
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) – Members of Ethiopia’s largest ethnic group, the Oromo, on Saturday protested the government and called for the release of jailed opposition figures as they gathered in the capital for their annual Irreecha Thanksgiving Festival. Dozens of people in central Addis Ababa chanted slogans such as …
Read More »Mexico returns fleeing Haitian migrants to Haiti | World news
By MARK STEVENSON, Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) – Mexico began returning Haitian migrants to their countries of origin on Wednesday, sending 70 people to Port-au-Prince. The first flight took off from Villahermosa Airport in Tabasco State on the Gulf Coast of Mexico, with 41 men, 16 women and 13 …
Read More »Two Europes: Low vaccination rates in the East overtake intensive care units | World news
By STEPHEN McGRATH, Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) – In a crowded intensive care unit for coronavirus patients in the Romanian capital, Bucharest, Adrian Pica, 55, sits on his bed and receives supplemental oxygen to help him to breathe. “I didn’t want to get the vaccine because I was scared,” …
Read More »UN meeting on racism reaffirms commitment to goals but renews divisions | World news
By JENNIFER PELTZ, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (PA) – The United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday pledged to redouble its efforts to combat racism around the world, commemorating a historic but controversial anti-racism conference in 2001 by holding an anniversary meeting once moreover torn by divisions. Looking back on the …
Read More »Starlink internet service exits beta in October – Musk
Posted September 20, 2021 SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted Friday that the company’s Starlink satellite internet network will come out of its open beta phase next month. It was two months later than Musk’s August date at Mobile World Congress, when he also said he expected the service to have …
Read More »Review of CBN’s e-Naira Project – Punch Newspapers
The Central Bank of Nigeria has been in constant headlines lately, with its influence becoming more dominant – from its decision to freeze the accounts of certain startups in the name of stopping speculation and protecting the naira , the decision to stop allocating dollars to BDC. operators, but in …
Read More »US envoy: Qatar plane takes more Americans from Afghanistan | World news
By KATHY GANNON, Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – A Qatar Airways flight on Friday brought more Americans out of Afghanistan, according to Washington’s envoy for peace, the third such airlift by the Middle East carrier since Taliban takeover and the frenzied withdrawal of US troops from the country. The …
Read More »virus hits French Polynesia and strengthens ties with Paris | World news
By ESTHER CUNEO, Associated Press PAPEETE, Tahiti (AP) – The worst coronavirus outbreak in France is unfolding 12 times further than Paris, devastating Tahiti and other idyllic islands in French Polynesia. The archipelagos of the South Pacific lack sufficient oxygen, intensive care beds and mortuary space – and their vaccination …
Read More »Dead officer, suspect killed in violence outside the Pentagon | National and Global
WASHINGTON (AP) – A Pentagon policeman died after being stabbed Tuesday in an explosion of violence at a transit center outside the building, and a suspect was shot dead by law enforcement and is died at the scene. The Pentagon, the headquarters of the US military, was temporarily quarantined after …
Read More »Transmission of electronic results: voters wonder about Ekwunife’s absence from the ballot
The Obosi community in the Idemili Northern Local Government Area of Anambra State questioned the senator representing the region, Uche Ekwueme, for his absence during the vote on the electronic transmission of election results to the chamber legislative superior last week. A former Commonwealth Secretary General, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, is …
Read More »Biggest Giannis fans watch and celebrate away title | Sports News
By DEREK GATOPOULOS and THEODORA TONGAS, Associated Press SEPOLIA, Greece (AP) – With less than a minute to play, Yiannis Tzikas was already making plastic cups to fill with champagne. “It’s over. No one can change this game now,” he said, his hands shaking slightly as he popped the cork. …
Read More »Pope Francis hospitalized for planned bowel surgery | New
VATICAN CITY (AP) – Pope Francis visited a hospital in Rome on Sunday for scheduled surgery on his large intestine, the Vatican said. The news came just three hours after Francis cheerfully greeted the audience in St. Peter’s Square and told them he would be visiting Hungary and Slovakia in …
Read More »Davido: Superstar in the Web of the Controversial Dead
Pop singer David Adeleke aka Davido has undoubtedly had an illustrious career. Since releasing his debut album, ‘Omo Baba Olowo’ in 2012, he has continued to make giant strides at home and abroad. However, it also sparked controversy almost to an equal extent. Between 2017 and now, four people close …
Read More »Newspaper Asks Judge To Access Arizona Audit Files | national
PHOENIX (AP) – Arizona’s largest newspaper calls on judge to order the state Senate and Cyber Ninjas, a cybersecurity firm hired to lead Republicans’ Senate review of elections of 2020, to hand over the public records. The Arizona Republican filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking financial documents and communications about the …
Read More »Pennsylvania Legalizes Compensation for College Athletes | National and Global
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – Governor Tom Wolf signed a law to allow college athletes in Pennsylvania to start earning money based on their fame and fame without fear of penalties from their school or athletic association. As a result, Pennsylvania joins a growing number of states, including Texas and Florida, …
Read More »UN: Drought in Madagascar pushes 400,000 people to famine | Health Info
By EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (PA) – The United Nations World Food Program says southern Madagascar is plagued by consecutive droughts that are pushing 400,000 people to starvation and have already caused deaths from severe hunger. Lola Castro, WFP Regional Director for Southern Africa, told a press …
Read More »On tour at the border, Harris bemoans “feuds” over immigration | National and Global
EL PASO, Texas (AP) – Vice President Kamala Harris took advantage of her first trip to the US-Mexico border since taking office on Friday to call for an end to political “rhetoric” and “wrangling” over the immigration, a problem Republicans have faced. eager to arm themselves against it. Immigration “cannot …
Read More »IPMAN supports the centralized online payment policy of the NNPC
The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria says it supports the new policy of centralizing online payment for products by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. In a statement released Tuesday by the association’s public relations manager, Yakubu Suleiman, IPMAN ensured its adherence to the policies of the NNPC and its …
Read More »Afghanistan accuses Taliban of worst violence in 20 years, | World news
By EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (PA) – Afghan Foreign Minister on Tuesday accused the Taliban of committing their worst violence in the past two decades and urged the international community to try to persuade the Taliban to honor a February 2020 deal with the United States to …
Read More »Newspaper Rack Faced With Sheriff Files $ 5 Million Torts Claim
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) – A black newspaper porter confronted Pierce County Sheriff Ed Troyer has filed a lawsuit seeking at least $ 5 million in damages. Lawyers representing Sedrick Altheimer filed a tort action against the county on Tuesday, claiming that Troyer’s actions in the January 27 incident violated Altheimer’s …
Read More »Latest news: IMF chief: 1 billion doses of vaccine is just the beginning | Economic news
Latest from the Group of Seven Nations meeting in England: FALMOUTH, ENGLAND – The managing director of the International Monetary Fund says there is a moral imperative for the world’s richest countries to support programs to end the COVID-19 pandemic, but the donation of surplus vaccines does not is just …
Read More »G-7 countries should pledge to deliver 1B vaccine doses to the world | New policies
By ZEKE MILLER, AAMER MADHANI and JILL LAWLESS, Associated Press ST. IVES, England (AP) – The Group of Seven countries are pledging to share at least 1 billion coronavirus vaccines with the world, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Thursday, with half from the United States and 100 million from …
Read More »Scientists hail golden age for tracking bird migration with technology | Maryland News
CHRISTINA LARSON, AP Science Writer TAKOMA PARK, Md. (AP) – A plump robin wearing a small metal backpack with an antenna hops around a suburban yard in Takoma Park, then plucks a cicada off the ground for a snack. Environmentalist Emily Williams looks through binoculars behind a bush. On this …
Read More »state bar investigating Paxton | Local News
DALLAS The Texas Bar Association is investigating whether state attorney general Ken Paxton’s unsuccessful efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election based on false allegations of fraud constituted professional misconduct. The State Bar of Texas initially refused to support a complaint by a Democratic Party activist that Paxton’s petition to …
Read More »Latest: emails from Hawaii reveal strain on contact tracing | Health Info
HONOLULU – Review of emails from Hawaii Governor David Ige shows state epidemiologist spent key weeks at the start of the coronavirus pandemic resisting suggestions and asking him to step up contact tracing to control the spread of COVID-19. They also showed Dr Sarah Park that she repeatedly told her …
Read More »US To Quickly Boost Global Vaccine Sharing, Biden Announces | New policies
By ZEKE MILLER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) – President Joe Biden announced Thursday that the United States will quickly give an initial allocation of 25 million doses of excess vaccine overseas under the United Nations-backed COVAX program, promising infusions for South and Central America, Asia, Africa and others at a …
Read More »Global equities mixed after Wall St ended in May with gain | Economic news
By JOE McDONALD, AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) – Global stock markets were mixed on Monday after Wall Street ended May with a gain and output at Japanese factories rose less than expected. London opened higher while Frankfurt pulled out. Tokyo declined while Shanghai and Hong Kong won. Wall Street …
Read More »13 suspected internet fraudsters arrested in Benue, Enugu, Imo
Olamide Francis and Chidiebube Okeoma Posted May 25, 2021 Economic and Financial Crimes Commission agents arrested four suspected internet fraudsters at a popular hotel in Makurdi, Benue State. PUNCH metro learned that the suspects were arrested on Tuesday, May 18, 2021 by members of the commission following credible information about …
Read More »Suspect arrested after fatal shooting at birthday party in New Jersey | National and global
BRIDGETON, NJ (AP) – A shooting at a birthday party in New Jersey that left two dead and 12 injured was not a random act and reflected the gun violence that swept the country, said the Governor Phil Murphy. “A birthday party is meant to be a joyous event, not …
Read More »Violence tests Biden’s withdrawal from Middle East hotspots | New policies
By ELLEN KNICKMEYER, Associated Press Outbreaks of violence and scenes of civil suffering test President Joe Biden’s resolve to divert attention and US foreign policy troops from hot spots in the Middle East and Afghanistan, and to give ammunition to Biden’s political rivals in his country. Biden and his supporters …
Read More »France wants tougher penalties for those who attack the police | World news
PARIS (AP) – The French prime minister proposes tougher and faster penalties for those who attack police, as the government pays national tribute to the last policeman killed in the line of duty. Prime Minister Jean Castex will lead Tuesday’s ceremony in the southern city of Avignon in honor of …
Read More »AP PHOTOS: Jumbo Mumbai COVID-19 Hospital Treats Thousands | World news
MUMBAI, India (AP) – Inside the BKC Jumbo Field Hospital in Mumbai, a health worker adjusts the oxygen mask of a COVID-19 patient as doctors, nurses and specialists monitor close and watch over hundreds of sick people. The mega pop-up hospital in the financial capital of India is set up …
Read More »Mexico Cites Russia’s Sputnik Vaccine Production Problems | World news
MEXICO CITY (AP) – Mexican officials on Monday said the Russians had so much trouble producing the second dose of the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine that Russia would likely not be able to supply enough to people who received the first dose. This is the latest account of Sputnik’s production …
Read More »Dracula’s Castle proves to be perfect setting for COVID-19 jabs | New
BUCHAREST (AP) – At Dracula’s Castle in scenic Transylvania, Romanian doctors offer a blow in the arm rather than a stake through the heart. A COVID-19 vaccination center has been set up on the outskirts of Bran Castle in Romania, which is believed to be the inspiration behind Dracula’s house …
Read More »Putin tells Red Square parade that Nazi ideas persist | New
MOSCOW (AP) – Russian President Vladimir Putin celebrated the anniversary of the end of WWII in Europe with a speech warning that Nazi beliefs remain strong. Speaking at the annual military parade in Moscow’s Red Square, Putin on Sunday denounced “attempts to rewrite history, to justify traitors and criminals, on …
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