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      2 June

      Unable to Rein in US Dollar Sale in Hawala Markets, Pakistan Risks Being Put on FATF Grey List Again

      At a time when its economy is at the tipping point, a US dollar is selling in the hawala networks and open markets of Pakistan for Rs 315 to Rs 320, even as the official bank rate is Rs 285. The Rs 30-35 gap means remittances will drop and grey markets will get stronger. According to a Federal Investigation Agency source, if the situation continues, Pakistan’s economy will collapse at an accelerated pace. The source added that Islamabad is also unable to keep its promise to financial watchdog FATF to act on these open markets because of poor enforcement of anti-money laundering networks. “If proper measures are not taken by Islamabad to counter grey markets and act according to its commitments to…

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    • 2 June

      Gambia hires US law firm to consider action on toxic Indian cough syrup, minister says

      Gambia has hired a U.S. law firm to explore legal action after a government-backed investigation found that contaminated medicines from India were “very likely” to have caused the deaths of children last year, the justice minister told Reuters. At least 70 children in Gambia, most under 5 years old, died from acute kidney injury between June and October. Local doctors suspected cough syrups imported from India were the likely culprit, Reuters reported earlier this year, and tests by the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed the presence of lethal toxins, sparking a global hunt for contaminated medicines. Gambian Justice Minister Dawda Jallow told Reuters legal action was one option under consideration by the government, the first sign of potential international litigation…

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    • 2 June

      Thousands march in Jerusalem Pride parade

      Thousands of people on Thursday marched in Jerusalem’s Pride parade, an annual event that took place for the first time under Israel’s new far-right government, which is stacked with openly homophobic members. The march in the conservative city is always tense and tightly secured by police, and has been wracked by violence in the past. This year, Israel finds itself deeply riven over a contentious government plan to overhaul the judiciary. The plan has torn open longstanding societal divisions between those who want to preserve Israel’s liberal values and those who seek to shift it toward more religious conservatism. Jerusalem’s march is typically more subdued than the one in gay-friendly Tel Aviv, where tens of thousands of revellers pour into…

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    • 2 June

      ‘Ukraine’s rightful place is in Nato,’ declares Rishi Sunak

      Rishi Sunak has said that Ukraine’s “rightful place” is in Nato, as Hungary insisted there can be no discussion of Kyiv’s accession at the alliance’s next summit. The Prime Minister threw his full support behind the embattled country’s bid to join the military pact at a major gathering of European leaders in Moldova. Volodymyr Zelensky has said that his nation is “ready” and “waiting” to be accepted. The Ukrainian president has called for a “clear” decision on Kyiv’s future in Nato at July’s meeting in Lithuania. But Hungary has insisted the accession of a country currently at war “cannot be on the agenda”. The international alliance agreed in 2008 that Ukraine would eventually be allowed to join. However, leaders have so far stopped short…

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    • 2 June

      Joe Biden trips and falls during graduation ceremony

      Joe Biden has tripped and fallen during a graduation ceremony at the US Air Force academy. The American president, 80, was quickly helped up by three people, and walked back to his seat unassisted following the incident in Colorado. As the leader was helped up, he pointed behind him, seeming to indicate what he tripped over. White House communications director Ben LaBolt said Mr Biden was fine. “There was a sandbag on stage while he was shaking hands,” he said on Twitter. Mr Biden, who stood for much of the hours-long ceremony to shake hands with graduates, appeared to trip over something and fell to his knees towards the end as he handed out the last diploma. The president was…

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    • 1 June

      Judge rules Australian elite soldier killed Afghans as suit fails

      Highly decorated veteran Ben Roberts-Smith had sued for defamation after newspapers reported he had murdered civilians in Afghanistan. Ben Roberts-Smith is Australia’s most decorated living veteran An Australian court has found that Ben Roberts-Smith, who was awarded the Victoria Cross for his bravery, probably killed unarmed civilians in Afghanistan as three newspapers reported in 2018. Roberts-Smith, a former soldier with the elite Special Air Services Regiment (SASR), sued the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and Canberra Times for defamation after they reported he had murdered Afghans during multiple deployments to the country. He claimed the publications had undermined his reputation and made him out to be a man who “broke the moral and legal rules of military engagement” and “disgraced his country and…

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    • 1 June

      Iraqi man reported killed fighting for Russia’s Wagner in Ukraine

      Abbas Abuthar Witwit is reported to have died in Ukraine in April after being injured in the battle for Bakhmut. An Iraqi citizen fighting with Russia’s Wagner mercenary force was killed in Ukraine in April, Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin has said, in what is believed to be the first confirmed case of a Middle East native to have died fighting in the war. Abbas Abuthar Witwit died on April 7, a day after arriving at a Wagner hospital in the Russian-occupied eastern Ukrainian city of Luhansk, according to the Russian-language RIA FAN news site. Prigozhin confirmed to the Reuters news agency on Wednesday that he had recruited Witwit from prison in Russia, adding that he was not the first native…

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    • 1 June

      Chechen troops said to mobilise as Russian children flee border

      Russia’s Belgorod regional Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov says more than 1,000 children due for evacuation from border areas. The aftermath of shelling in the border town of Shebekino, Belgorod region, Russia, on May 31, 2023 Fighters from Russia’s Chechnya region under the command of leader Ramzan Kadyrov have likely been ordered to take a leading role in the fighting in Ukraine in a week when the governor of Russia’s Belgorod region announced the evacuation of children amid ongoing cross-border attacks from Ukraine. The Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a Washington, DC-based think tank, said in its latest report on Thursday that Russian military commanders had likely ordered the Chechens into battle following the withdrawal of Wagner Group mercenary forces from the destroyed city…

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    • 1 June

      US, Philippines, Japan set to hold first-ever joint naval drills

      Drills come as both US and China ramp up military diplomacy in the Asia Pacific, staging more frequent war games with allies and partners. An American soldier fires a Javelin anti-tank weapon system during a live exercise as part of the annual US-Philippines joint military exercises called Balikatan at Fort Magsaysay, Nueva Ecija province, Philippines, April 13, 2023 The coastguards of the United States, Japan and the Philippines are set to launch maritime exercises in the South China Sea, in the first such drills between the three countries at a time of growing concern about China’s activities in the region. The exercise in waters off the Bataan province of the Philippines will begin on Thursday and last until June 7.…

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    • 1 June

      NASA UFO team holds first public meeting on unexplained sightings

      UFO panel members say online abuse has been directed at their work to investigate the unexplained. A UFO display outside the Little A’Le’Inn cafe and motel, in Rachel, Nevada., the closest town to Area 51 – the secretive US Air Force base long associated with UFOs by enthusiasts of unexplained sightings NASA has held its first public meeting on UFOs – officially referred to as “unidentified aerial phenomena” (UAPs) – a year after launching a study into unexplained sightings. The space agency televised the four-hour hearing on Wednesday featuring an independent panel of experts who promised to be transparent. The team of 16 scientists and other experts selected by NASA included retired US astronaut Scott Kelly who spent nearly a year in space. NASA…

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