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A well-known Mexican journalist and TV news host has gone missing in Guadalajara, the local governor and his family said Monday night. “A few moments ago, they informed me that journalist Jaime Barrera had not gone to his news program and that since midday his family had not been able to locate him,” Enrique Alfaro,…
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The Economic Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says that former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele allegedly awarded multi-billion naira worth of contracts to his family members and associates. EFCC spokesman, Dele Oyewale, in a statement, said a seventh Prosecution Witness, PW7, in the trial of Emefiele revealed this on Monday, March…
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Yemisi Opaso, sister to Afolabi Opaso, who was fatally shot by Winnipeg police in Canada on New Year’s Eve, has said there is no clarity over his death. Opaso was fatally shot by Winnipeg police officers, who were responding to a well-being call at an apartment building at 77 University Cres. at about 2:30 p.m.…
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The US Treasury has levied sanctions on 16 individuals and entities across the Horn of Africa and the Middle East, accusing them of laundering money for the Al-Shabaab Islamist militant group. The Treasury said the “expansive business network” was part of an international fundraising and money-laundering web for the Al-Qaeda-linked group operating in Somalia and…
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Controversial influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan have been arrested in Romania over UK sex offence charges, police said on Tuesday. Romanian authorities said in a statement that they executed “two European arrest warrants issued by the UK judicial authorities for the committing of sexual offences, of exploitation of persons on the territory of…