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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...

RECENT NEWS
Vietnamese Man Jailed for 5 Years for Spreading Coronavirus
Tuesday, 7 September 2021 08:18 WIB | Global

Vietnam jailed a man on Monday for five years for breaking strict COVID-19 quarantine rules and spreading the virus to others, state media reported. Le Van Tri, 28, was convicted of "spreading dangerous infectious diseases" at a one-day trial at the People's Court of the southern province of Ca Mau, the state-run Vietnam News Agency (VNA) reported. Vietnam has been one of the world's coronavirus success stories, thanks to targeted mass testing, aggressive contact tracing, tight border restrictions and strict quarantine. But new clusters of infections since late April have tarnished that...

Families of MH17 Airline Crash Victims to Speak in Court
Monday, 6 September 2021 23:20 WIB | Global

Dozens of relatives of the 298 victims of Malaysian Airlines flight 17, shot down over rebel-held eastern Ukraine in 2014, will begin giving testimony on Monday at the murder trial of four fugitive suspects accused of carrying out the attack. The aircraft was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it was hit by what international investigators and prosecutors say was a Russian surface-to-air missile. Three Russians and a Ukrainian citizen, all suspected of having key roles in the separatist forces, are on trial for murder. Moscow has refused to extradite those in Russia and denies all...

Taliban Stop Planes of Evacuees from Leaving but Unclear Why
Monday, 6 September 2021 20:28 WIB | Global

At least four planes chartered to evacuate several hundred people seeking to escape the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan have been unable to leave the country for days. Officials said Sunday, with conflicting accounts emerging about why the flights weren't able to take off as pressure increases on the United States to help those left behind to flee. An Afghan official at the airport in the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif said that the would-be passengers were Afghans. Many of whom did not have passports or visas, and thus were unable to leave the country. He said they had left the...

White House Again Pledges to Get Americans Out of Afghanistan
Monday, 6 September 2021 11:57 WIB | Global

A top White House official pledged Sunday that the United States would find a way to get the remaining Americans out of Afghanistan if they want to leave, but a key Republican foreign affairs lawmaker said Taliban insurgents are blocking easy passage out of the Kabul airport. White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain told CNN's "State of the Union" show that U.S. officials believe "around 100" Americans remain in Afghanistan nearly a week since the U.S. military pulled its last troops out of the country after a nearly two-decade war against al-Qaida terrorists and the Taliban. We're going to...

India's Schools Reopen as COVID-19 Cases Decline
Friday, 3 September 2021 23:20 WIB | Global

Schools in Indian have begun to reopen after being closed for more than a year as cases of COVID-19 have started to decline. The government gave the go-ahead for schools to reopen Tuesday in at least five states and union territories, including Delhi and Tamil Nadu. Schools did so cautiously, with strict COVID-19 protocols in place, including wearing masks, frequent hand washing, staggered lunch breaks, and limited seating capacity for social distancing in classrooms. India closed most schools, colleges, and other educational institutions in March of 2020, as the pandemic began in an...

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SECURITIES
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Thursday, 13 October 2022 14:20 WIB

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