The United States is concerned that increased currency swap agreements between China and African nations will reduce visibility into financial transactions and will make it harder to prevent money laundering, a senior U.S. sanctions official said on Thursday. Marshall Billingslea, the U.S.
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Hurricane Florence made landfall near Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina at 7:15 am (1115 GMT) on Friday, the National Hurricane Center said. “Hurricane Florence made landfall minutes ago,” NHC Director Ken Graham said in a Facebook Live video.
Washington Governor Jay Inslee has appointed Edirin Okoloko, a Nigerian, to Snohomish County Superior Court. He will replace Judge George Bowden who is retiring. Okoloko has worked for the past 13 years in the Snohomish County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, where he is a Deputy Prosecuting Attorney working on homicide, sexual assault, child abuse, and elder […]
Spanish lawmakers on Thursday approved a decree by the Socialist government authorising the exhumation of late dictator Francisco Franco. The sensitive decision to move Franco’s remains from his vast mausoleum near Madrid was approved by a vote of 172 in favour, two against and 164 abstentions.
France admitted Thursday that it instigated a “system” that led to torture during Algeria’s independence war, a conflict that remains hugely sensitive six decades on. President Emmanuel Macron is set to acknowledge that mathematician Maurice Audin, a Communist pro-independence activist who disappeared in 1957, “died under torture stemming from the system instigated while
A young Nigerian man, Alex Jude Akpan, 24, has been arrested and will be charged with tampering with evidence after the body of a strangled woman was found in the recycling bin in his bedroom. Akpan will likely face a murder charge over the death of the woman, who has not yet been identified, reports […]
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