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Albania former PM charged with corruption and money laundering charges – JURIST

Albanian prosecutors have charged former Prime Minister Sali Berisha and his son-in-law on Sunday with corruption and money laundering charges over a land deal involving the grounds of a sports club.According to […]

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Banks

UK Banks Hold Back £7.5Billion from Struggling SMEs in Missed Annual Deposit Interest

SME owners in the UK are due more than £7.5billion a year in ‘missing’ savings interest; business bank Allica Bank has revealed after new research. Rising interest rates, the cost-of-living crisis and […]

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Banks

6 Ways for SMEs to Beat the Credit Squeeze

As governments across Europe turn to increasing interest rates to control inflation, many SMEs are struggling to keep their heads above water. In an attempt to help, SME Bank offers some potentially […]

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Security

Banking’s High-tech Crime Challenge – The European Financial Review

By Niall Hearty In the modern technological age, it is accepted that financial crime is cross-border in nature.  The developments of recent years that have made online banking an everyday reality have […]

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UN official: Afghanistan women and girls in ‘deadly’ situation following earthquakes – JURIST

Alison Davidian, the UN special representative for women in Afghanistan, said on Sunday that women and girls under Talbian rule are in a “deadly” situation following following two earthquakes in the country, […]

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Economy

Welcome to the age of the hermit consumer

In some ways the covid-19 pandemic was a blip. After soaring in 2020, unemployment across the rich world quickly dropped to pre-pandemic lows. Rich countries reattained their pre-covid gdp levels in short […]

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UK police note 1,353 percent and 140 percent increase in anti-Semitic and Islamophobic offenses – JURIST

The UK’s Metropolitan Police made a statement Friday outlining a spike in anti-Semitic and Islamophobic hate crimes across London between October 1 and 18 in light of the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict The […]

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India Supreme Court orders hike in compensation and total eradication of manual scavenging – JURIST

The Supreme Court of India on Friday issued a comprehensive set of fourteen directives aimed at eradicating the practice of manual scavenging across the nation. A pivotal aspect of these directives revolves […]

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Сryptocurrencies

Exploring the Future of Blockchain-Based Payments With Ripple

Blockchain and cryptocurrency hype has dramatically risen and fallen, and ebbed and flowed, throughout the last five years. From Bitcoin reaching an all-time high in price in November 2021, to it having […]

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Synagogues in Berlin, Tunisia targeted with fire attacks as hate crimes soar in wake of Israel-Hamas war – JURIST

On Wednesday, two people targeted a Berlin, Germany synagogue with molotov cocktails, a type of homemade firebomb, and rioters in Tunisia burned down the historic El Hamma synagogue. The attacks came as […]

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Germany expert commission releases report recommending legalization of early-stage abortion and amended laws for later-term pregnancies – JURIST

The Commission on Reproductive Self-Determination and Reproductive Medicine in Germany on Monday submitted a final report recommending the legalization of abortion within the first 12 weeks of pregnancy in the country.The German […]

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Australia judge rules in defamation trial that former government adviser raped a colleague in parliament – JURIST

Australia Federal Court Justice Michael Lee found that former government adviser Bruce Lehrmann raped a colleague in a Parliament House office on Monday. The judge dismissed a defamation lawsuit Lehrmann brought against […]

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Poland classifies attack on humanitarian aid workers as murder, demands Israeli cooperation in investigation – JURIST

The Polish government on Friday labeled the death of Polish aid worker Damian Soból as murder, following the deaths of seven humanitarian aid workers from the World Central Kitchen (WCK) serving in […]

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Amnesty International urges immediate investigation into war crimes in Merawi, Ethiopia – JURIST

Amnesty International asserted Friday that African and global human rights bodies must urgently investigate alleged war crimes committed by the Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF) in the town of Merawi, Amhara region, […]

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