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Wednesday, 28 June 2023 17:23 WIB

The United States on Tuesday accused companies in the United Arab Emirates, the Central African Republic and Russia of engaging in illicit gold deals to help fund the mercenary fighters of Russia's Wagner Group. The U.S. Treasury Department said in a statement it has sanctioned four companies linked to Wagner and its leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, that it alleged were used to help pay the paramilitary's forces fighting in Ukraine and undertaking operations to support Russian interests in Africa. "The Wagner Group funds its brutal operations in part by exploiting natural resources in countries...

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Hong Kong Orders Mandatory COVID-19 Tests for All Residents
Thursday, 24 February 2022 09:54 WIB | Global

Hong Kong will test its entire population of 7.5 million people for COVID-19 in March, the city's leader said Tuesday, as it grapples with its worst outbreak driven by the omicron variant. The population will be tested three times in March, Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam said. She said testing capacity will be boosted to 1 million a day or more. Hong Kong has reported about 5,000 new daily infections since Feb. 15, with the cases threatening to overwhelm its healthcare system. Since the current surge began at the beginning of the year, the city has recorded nearly 54,000 cases and...

Britain's PM Dropping all Remaining COVID-19 Restrictions
Thursday, 24 February 2022 00:13 WIB | Global

As expected, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Monday the end of all domestic COVID-19 restrictions as of November 24, even self-isolation for those testing positive for the infection. Speaking before Parliament, Johnson said the nation will still encourage those who test positive or experience symptoms to stay home -- at least until April 1, when the government will simply encourage people with a positive test or symptoms "to exercise personal responsibility." On that day, the government will also stop paying for COVID-19 testing. Johnson announced the scrapping of the...

Biden Ceases International Financing for Russia
Wednesday, 23 February 2022 17:13 WIB | Amerika Global Rusia

President of the United States (US) Joe Biden decided not to obtain international resources for the Russian government on Tuesday (22/2) and imposed sanctions on two major banks from the country. Biden declared that the movement of Russian troops into eastern Ukraine was a "blatant violation of international law." The criticism came from many US allies and other multilateral institutions, including UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. In a brief speech at the White House, Biden told Russian President Vladimir Putin that leaving Monday night to send Ukraine's eastern border border to...

US Lawmakers Condemn Russian Incursion into Eastern Ukraine
Wednesday, 23 February 2022 10:11 WIB | Global

U.S. lawmakers stepped up calls Tuesday for sanctions against Russia, urging the Biden administration to act swiftly to penalize Russian President Vladimir Putin for recognizing the occupied regions of Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine as independent states. Despite significant bipartisan unity for deterring Russian aggression in Ukraine, Democrats and Republicans have struggled to agree on how to sequence sanctions to discourage and penalize Putin for incursions into the independent eastern European nation. But Putin's televised national speech Monday characterizing Ukraine as...

Ukraine Says Skies Safe as Some Airlines Suspend Flights
Tuesday, 22 February 2022 17:40 WIB | Global

Feb 21 Ukraine said on Monday about 10 airlines had stopped flying there amid U.S. warnings of an attack by Russian forces massed on its border but insisted its air corridors were open and that flying to the eastern European country was safe. Germany's Lufthansa said it was halting flights to Ukraine starting Monday, joining KLM, which has already done so. Scandinavian airline SAS also suspended weekly flights while Air France has decided to cancel Tuesday flights between Paris and Kyiv as a "precautionary measure." "The current cancellation of flights by a number of foreign airlines is...

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POLITICS
North and South Korea Restore Hotline After A Year
Tuesday, 27 July 2021 11:46 WIB

North and South Korea have restored a communication hotline that was cut off by Pyongyang last June. According to the South's presidential office, the leaders of both countries have agreed to...

SECURITIES
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Thursday, 13 October 2022 14:20 WIB

Critical infrastructure facilities were hit by drone strikes early on Thursday, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, the deputy head of the Volodymyr Zelenskiy's presidential office said on Thursday. "Another attack...

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