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• UAE, other countries removed from international money laundering watchlist

  23-02-2024 23:52 via foxnews.com
  
  An international watchdog said Friday that it was removing the United Arab Emirates from its so-called gray list of countries that don't take full measures to combat money laundering and terrorism financing.The announcement was made by the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force following its meeting in the French capital. The FATF welcomed the UAE's "significant progress in improving" its anti-money laundering and counterterrorism financing policies.Barbados, Gibraltar and Uganda will also be r
  
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• Colombia to send deep-water expedition to explore 300-year-old shipwreck thought to hold treasure

  23-02-2024 23:49 via foxnews.com
  
  BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s government on Friday announced plans for a deep-water expedition to explore the mythical galleon San José, sunk in the 18th century in the country’s northern Caribbean and believed to contain cargo valued at billions of dollars.It is the first phase of a scientific research into deep waters that aims at collecting information to determine which pieces are suitable and possible to extract. The wreckage is 600 meters deep in the sea.COLOM
  
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• With judgment entered in Trump fraud case, clock starts on his $454M penalty

  23-02-2024 23:45
  
  The clerk for New York County's Supreme Court has entered the judgment order in former President Trump's civil fraud case, starting the clock on his $454 million penalty.
  
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• Odysseus Moon lander 'tipped over on touchdown'

  23-02-2024 23:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The history-making robot likely caught its foot on contact with the lunar surface and fell sideways.
  
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• Strictly's Dowden says cancer check finds no evidence of disease

  23-02-2024 23:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Amy Dowden took to social media to reveal her good news after being diagnosed with cancer.
  
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• Actor Judith Godrèche urges French film industry to face up to sexual abuse

  23-02-2024 23:06 via theguardian.com
  
  Star tells audience at prestigious César awards that they need to challenge powerful and abusive men whatever the career riskJudith Godrèche has urged the French film industry to break its omertà on sexual abuse in an unprecedented address to the country’s most prestigious awards ceremony on Friday evening.Godrèche, who says she was groomed and raped as a teenager by an acclaimed director, received a standing ovation as she took the stage at the Césars &n
  
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• Scotland v England - where will the game be won?

  23-02-2024 23:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Where will Saturday's game at Murrayfield between Scotland and England be won or lost? Will it be a fourth win in a row for Scotland over their rivals? Or will England stop the run?
  
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• Five things we learned from Married to The Game

  23-02-2024 22:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Five takeaways from the Prime documentary Married to The Game, which looks at the partners of footballers Jorginho, Ilkay Gundogan, Riyad Mahrez, James Tarkowski and Matt Turner.
  
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• Imprisoned former Pakistani PM Imran Khan addresses IMF in election audit push

  23-02-2024 22:26 via foxnews.com
  
  Pakistan’s imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan is writing a letter to the International Monetary Fund urging it to link any talks with Islamabad to an audit of the country's recent election, which his party alleges was rigged, his party said Friday.Senator Ali Zafar, a top leader from Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party or PTI made his televised remarks after meeting with Khan at the Adiala prison, where he is serving multiple prison sentences.The latest development comes days be
  
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• Sanctions on Russia working, but more to do: Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo

  23-02-2024 22:15
  
  She said the Russians have figured out how to evade sone U.S. export controls.
  
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• London police confirm body pulled from Thames River is chemical attack suspect

  23-02-2024 21:36 via foxnews.com
  
  London police confirmed Friday that a body they pulled from the River Thames is that of Abdul Ezedi, a man wanted over a chemical attack that injured his former partner and her two young daughters.The Metropolitan Police said his body was formally identified on Thursday and that his family has been informed of this development. The force also said that a post-mortem has confirmed his cause of death as drowning.UK POLICE REPORTEDLY PULL BODY OF SUSPECT IN CORROSIVE SUBSTANCE ATTACK FROM RIVER"As
  
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• Extraditions sought in theft of $600K from South African president

  23-02-2024 21:22 via foxnews.com
  
  Prosecutors said Friday they are seeking extradition orders and the arrest of more suspects over the 2020 theft of around $580,000 in U.S. cash that was hidden in a couch at South African President Cyril Ramaphosa's ranch.The theft, which only became public in 2022, engulfed Ramaphosa in scandal and led to an investigation by financial authorities. He was cleared of wrongdoing, although he also faced an impeachment vote in Parliament over it. He survived the vote because of his ruling African Na
  
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• How a gay TV drama changed people's lives

  23-02-2024 20:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  First broadcast 25 years ago, Queer as Folk depicted three gay men in a way not seen on TV before.
  
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• Angry French farmers with tractors are back on the streets of Paris for another protest

  23-02-2024 20:13 via foxnews.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — Angry farmers were back in Paris on their tractors in a new protest Friday demanding more government support and simpler regulations, on the eve of a major agricultural fair in the French capital.Dozens of tractors drove peacefully into Paris carrying flags from Rural Coordination, the farmers’ union that staged the protest. The protesters then posed with their tractors on a bridge over the Seine River with the Eiffel Tower in the background, before heading towards the V
  
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• Valencia fire: Early videos show how flames spread

  23-02-2024 20:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Experts say highly flammable cladding may have helped the fire spread.
  
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• ‘Incredible failure’: KPMG rejects claims it assessed ‘the wrong company’ before $423m payment to Paladin

  23-02-2024 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: Firm’s denial comes after weeks of intense criticism, including accusations that it misled parliament • Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastConsultancy firm KPMG Australia has rejected claims it conducted due diligence on “the wrong company” before the federal government gave nearly half a billion dollars to a controversial company with no track record.The firm’s objection to comments by a member of a Senate inquiry exa
  
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• The collapse of a gold mine in Venezuela underscores the dangers of a poorly regulated industry

  23-02-2024 19:48 via foxnews.com
  
  LA PARAGUA, Venezuela (AP) — Osvaldo Romero and his wife got off a battered boat Friday under the scorching sun of central Venezuela and walked up the bank of a river barefoot, their pants soaking wet and eyes showing the shock of having faced days earlier one of the country’s deadliest mining disasters.He carried a few belongings they had wrapped with plastic and rope, and as residents of the community of La Paragua approached him, he said he regretted having worked at the remote mi
  
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• Blinken visits Argentina's President Milei in sign of US support: 'extraordinary' investment opportunities

  23-02-2024 19:30 via foxnews.com
  
  Argentina's libertarian leader Javier Milei on Friday hosted U.S. top diplomat Antony Blinken, the most senior U.S. official to visit Argentina since Milei took office in December pledging a "shock therapy" to stabilize the country's embattled economy.Asked at the start of their meeting at the Casa Rosada presidential palace what was his message for the United States, Milei replied that "Argentina has decided to return to the side of the West, to the side of progress, democracy and, above all, f
  
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• Blinken calls new Israeli settlements inconsistent with international law

  23-02-2024 19:25 via theguardian.com
  
  Secretary of state’s characterization of West Bank settlements signals return to longstanding US policy reversed by TrumpIsrael’s expansion of settlements in the occupied West Bank was inconsistent with international law, the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, said on Friday, signaling a return to longstanding US policy on the issue, which had been reversed by the previous administration of Donald Trump.The Trump administration in 2019 in effect backed Israel’s right to bui
  
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• Canadian university vending machine error reveals use of facial recognition

  23-02-2024 19:24 via theguardian.com
  
  University of Waterloo dispenser displays facial recognition message despite no prior indication it was monitoring studentsA malfunctioning vending machine at a Canadian university has inadvertently revealed that a number of them have been using facial recognition technology in secret.Earlier this month, a snack dispenser at the University of Waterloo showed an error message – Invenda.Vending.FacialRecognition.App.exe – on the screen. Continue reading...
  
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• Bret Baier reflects on the importance, cost of war journalism as Russia's war on Ukraine enters another year

  23-02-2024 19:11 via foxnews.com
  
  Fox News chief political anchor and executive editor of "Special Report" Bret Baier reflected on the cost of war journalism, praising the journalists, producers and camera crews he has worked with over the two years of Ukraine coverage while remembering those the team lost. "Covering war is a tough thing. Logistically, it’s very difficult," Baier said as he finished off a series of exclusive interviews near the front lines with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for "Special Repo
  
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• Female golf pro on her viral 'mansplaining' TikTok

  23-02-2024 19:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Georgia Ball was approached by a male golfer who "mansplained" the sport to here, while she was filming a video for TikTok.
  
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• No Return for Shamima

  23-02-2024 18:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  No Return for Shamima Begum
  
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• Ukrainian artist creates art by sculpting with war debris: 'Translating the pain'

  23-02-2024 18:32 via foxnews.com
  
  From within the debris of Russia’s war, Ukraine’s most famous sculptor was compelled to make a dark artistic pivot the day his own country house was ravaged by a Russian strike."It happened by accident, it happened when a missile came into our house, our dacha … and my neighbors gathered the debris from the missile," Mikhail Reva said, via a translator. "And the idea came to my mind to make a metaphor of those debris."Two years into the invasion, the Odesa native has not reste
  
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• When is the Budget and what will it mean for my money?

  23-02-2024 18:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will set out the government's tax and spending plans in the spring Budget.
  
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• Indonesia and Australia poised to sign security agreement as leaders hold defense talks

  23-02-2024 18:29 via foxnews.com
  
  Indonesia and Australia held high-level talks in Jakarta on Friday as the neighboring countries seek to strengthen security ties by signing a defense cooperation agreement in the coming months.Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto, who is set to become Indonesia's next leader, said that he and Australian counterpart Richard Marles discussed ways of maintaining and enhancing the good relationship between the two nations.Subianto said that Indonesia and Australia hope to sign a "very significant" defe
  
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• Israel plans to build 3,300 homes in the West Bank

  23-02-2024 18:24 via foxnews.com
  
  Israel plans to build more than 3,300 new homes in settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank in response to a fatal Palestinian shooting attack, a senior Cabinet minister said. The decision is bound to frustrate Washington at a time of growing tensions over the course of Israel's war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip.Israel's finance minister, far-right firebrand Bezalel Smotrich, announced the new settlement plans late Thursday, after three Palestinian gunmen opened fire on cars near the Maale Adu
  
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• 5 migrants dead after boat capsizes off Malta during rescue operations

  23-02-2024 18:20 via foxnews.com
  
  A 25-foot boat loaded with migrants capsized off Malta on Friday as rescue operations were under way, killing five people and injuring eight, Maltese officials said.Twenty-one other survivors were taken to a migrant detention center on the Mediterranean island nation. Search operations were continuing offshore to ensure no other passengers remained in the sea.Col. Edric Zahra, deputy commander of the Armed Forces of Malta, said the operations center received a call at 10:45 a.m. Friday about a m
  
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• Navalny's mother 'given hours to agree to secret burial'

  23-02-2024 17:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Putin critic's spokeswoman says his mother was told he would be buried in the prison if she did not agree.
  
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• Who gets 15 hours of free childcare and when do I apply?

  23-02-2024 17:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Parents in England wanting 15 hours free childcare for two-year-olds face an important deadline.
  
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• New hopes of Gaza ceasefire as Israeli negotiators head to Paris

  23-02-2024 17:18 via theguardian.com
  
  Pressure mounts on Israel and Hamas to make a deal before threatened Rafah offensive Middle East crisis – live updatesAn Israeli negotiating team arrived in Paris on Friday for talks about a potential ceasefire in Gaza in the latest sign of tentative progress towards an agreement that could end the five-month-old war.The Israeli delegation, which includes the heads of its internal and external intelligence services, will meet the director of the CIA, Qatar’s prime minister and Egypt&
  
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• Passport issued for surrogate baby stuck in warzone

  23-02-2024 17:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Three week old Jaunty Beau won't receive his travel document for at least another week.
  
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• Venezuela reportedly scraps US deal to deport illegal migrants as some commit crimes to be deported

  23-02-2024 17:00 via foxnews.com
  
  Venezuela has stopped accepting flights of migrants deported from the U.S. and Mexico, while Venezuelan migrants in Chicago are allegedly committing crimes just to get a free ride back to their home country on the taxpayer's dime.According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, President Nicolás Maduro’s authoritarian regime is refusing to cooperate with deportation requests after Washington reimposed some of the economic sanctions it had previously lifted on Venezuela.The mov
  
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• Germany legalises cannabis, but makes it hard to buy

  23-02-2024 16:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Under the law backed by MPs, possession will be legal, but strict rules mean it will be complicated.
  
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• Middle East crisis: Netanyahu presents first official post-Gaza war plan; MSF says ‘there is no health system left in Gaza’ – as it happened

  23-02-2024 16:06 via theguardian.com
  
  Israel wants security control over all land west of Jordan, including occupied West Bank and Gaza; MSF says idea of humanitarian response in Gaza ‘an illusion’. This live blog is closedThe paramedics arm of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group says two of its members were killed in an Israeli strike on a southern border village early on Friday, reports AP.The Islamic Health Society identified the two as Hussein Khalil and Mohammed Ismail, saying they were killed when the group&rs
  
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• Biden officials play down report of US investigation into Mexican president

  23-02-2024 16:04 via theguardian.com
  
  US looked into claims that Andrés Manuel López Obrador allies took money from cartels, according to a New York Times reportOfficials with the justice department and the Biden administration have downplayed a report that US law enforcement spent years looking into allegations that allies of Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, were investigated for taking millions of dollars from drug cartels after the president took office.López Obrador, who d
  
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• What are the sanctions on Russia and are they working?

  23-02-2024 15:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Over the past two years, Western nations have imposed sanctions on Russia for invading Ukraine.
  
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• Premier League: Four games including Man Utd v Fulham & Villa lead Forest

  23-02-2024 15:16 via bbc.co.uk
  Listen to BBC Radio 5 Live commentary as Manchester United face Fulham and follow live text from three other games in the Premier League, followed by Bournemouth facing Manchester City and Arsenal against Newcastle.
  
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• Premier League: Build-up to four games including Man Utd v Fulham

  23-02-2024 15:16 via bbc.co.uk
  Listen to BBC Radio 5 Live commentary as Manchester United face Fulham and follow live text from three other games in the Premier League, followed by Bournemouth facing Manchester City and Arsenal against Newcastle.
  
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• Watch: Pinatar Cup - Can Scotland add to two-goal lead over Philippines?

  23-02-2024 15:12 via bbc.co.uk
  Watch live BBC Alba coverage and follow live text update as Scotland take on Philippines in the Pinatar Cup.
  
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• Six Nations: Ireland v Wales - Sheehan try extends Ireland lead

  23-02-2024 15:12 via bbc.co.uk
  Follow live text and BBC radio commentaries as Grand Slam-chasing Ireland host Wales at Aviva Stadium in the Six Nations.
  
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• Six Nations: Ireland v Wales - Lowe dots down in corner

  23-02-2024 15:12 via bbc.co.uk
  Follow live text and BBC radio commentaries as Grand Slam-chasing Ireland host Wales at Aviva Stadium in the Six Nations.
  
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• Six Nations: Ireland v Wales - Ireland in control at half-time

  23-02-2024 15:12 via bbc.co.uk
  Follow live text and BBC radio commentaries as Grand Slam-chasing Ireland host Wales at Aviva Stadium in the Six Nations.
  
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• Six Nations: Ireland v Wales - Crowley penalty edges Irish ahead

  23-02-2024 15:12 via bbc.co.uk
  Follow live text and BBC radio commentaries as Grand Slam-chasing Ireland host Wales at Aviva Stadium in the Six Nations.
  
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• WATCH: Over 100 new species discovered in South Pacific

  23-02-2024 15:00
  
  Researchers say they discovered more than 100 new species during an expedition in the southeast Pacific.
  
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• Weather tracker: Contrasts in cold and heat break records in China

  23-02-2024 10:47 via theguardian.com
  
  Xinjiang in north-west recorded minus 52.3C, while Badu in south recorded 38C – the largest temperature contrast recorded in a single countryChina’s Xinjiang region, in the far west of the country, experienced record-breaking low temperatures of -52.3C on 18 February, surpassing a 64-year-old record for the region. The figure was just shy of the lowest national temperature of -53C, which was recorded in the Heilongjiang region in January last year.The extreme weather has caused big d
  
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• Huge cybersecurity leak lifts lid on world of China’s hackers for hire

  23-02-2024 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Leaked files shows range of services offered and bought, with data harvested from targets worldwideA big leak of data from a Chinese cybersecurity firm has revealed state security agents paying tens of thousands of pounds to harvest data on targets, including foreign governments, while hackers hoover up huge amounts of information on any person or institution who might be of interest to their prospective clients.The cache of more than 500 leaked files from the Chinese firm I-Soon was posted on t
  
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• Colombia vows to put nature at the heart of global environmental negotiations

  23-02-2024 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The environment minister Susana Muhamad says nature is a ‘pillar’ of fighting the climate crisisThe next round of global biodiversity negotiations will put nature at the heart of the international environment agenda, Colombia’s environment minister has said, as the country prepares for the Cop16 summit.Susana Muhamad, Colombia’s environment minister, who is expected to be the Cop16 president, said the South American country would use the summit to ensure nature was a key
  
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• Panama's ex-president holed up in Nicaragua's embassy while judiciary orders his arrest

  23-02-2024 02:32 via foxnews.com
  
  Panamanian authorities on Thursday ordered the arrest of former President Ricardo Martinelli, who has been holed up in the Nicaraguan Embassy since receiving political asylum from that country earlier this month.A judge approved a requested change of Martinelli’s conditional release that had stood while he appealed his 10-year sentence for a money laundering conviction, the federal judiciary said. The Supreme Court denied Martinelli’s final appeal earlier this month, upholding his se
  
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• US teen punished for hairstyle at school speaks out

  23-02-2024 02:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Darryl George has been in in-school isolation for the length of his locs hairstyle since August.
  
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