• Brasile

    Decreto cria Comissão de Reforma do Sistema Penitenciário Nacional

    O presidente Michel Temer criou a Comissão de Reforma do Sistema Penitenciário Nacional. De acordo com decreto publicado no Diário Oficial da União desta quinta-feira (19/1), a comissão vai avaliar o sistema penitenciário nacional, acompanhar a implementação do Plano Nacional de Segurança Pública e formular propostas para a reforma do ...

  • Nigeria

    Age falsification: Court reserves judgments on Tarfa’s appeals

    The Court of Appeal, Lagos, on Thursday reserved judgements on two appeals filed by Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Rickey Tarfa, challenging his trial for alleged age falsification and obstruction of law enforcement officers carrying out their duties. The appeals arose from separate charges filed against Tarfa by the Economic ...

  • Nigeria

    2017 budget: Expert Lauds Senate Oil Benchmark of 44.5 Dollars

    A financial expert, on Thursday described the oil price benchmark  adjustment by the Senate in the 2017 budget from 42.5 dollars per barrel to 44.5 dollars per barrel as realistic. Dr Uche Uwaleke,  Head of Banking and Finance Department, Nasarawa State University, Keffi, stated this in an interview with the News Agency ...

  • Brasile

    Rio Self Storage Makes Use of Space in Zona Norte

    By Jay Forte, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – While property in the city of Rio remains the most expensive in Brazil, areas in Zona Norte (North Zone) are much more affordable. American expatriate and entrepreneur in Rio, Zachary Mazur, has leveraged the value into a successful self storage ...

  • Malta

    MSE Share Index halts 3-day negative streak

    The MSE Share Index moved higher for the first time in the last four trading sessions as it rebounded by 0.21% to 4,656.737 points. Trading activity surged to €0.48 million largely due to heightened activity in Medserv and BOV as well as healthy volumes in RS2 and HSBC. Medserv plc slipped ...

  • USA

    Controversial Townsquare skyscraper decision may be appealed - tribunal

    Appeals filed against the Townsquare high-rise project have been approved by the Planning Authority's appeals tribunal. The decision was taken by the Environment and Planning Review Tribunal at a sitting this afternoon. Appeals against the 38-storey Townsquare tower in Tigné, approved by the PA last August, have been filed by environmental organisations, ...

  • Regno Unito

    Despite decision to leave EU, Britain is open for business - UK prime minister

    Theresa May has told world leaders and corporate chiefs that Britain remains "open for business" despite its decision to leave the European Union. In a speech to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the Prime Minister insisted that Brexit did not mean the UK turning its back on the world ...

  • Spagna Panama Nuova Zelanda Malta

    Updated: PANA Committee requests meetings with Nexia BT and Mossack Fonseca Malta; full list

    The ‘Panama Papers’ Committee will be meeting with a number of Maltese authorities in its quest to get to the bottom of Maltese individuals’ involvement in what has perhaps been the biggest financial scandal of the decade. And there are several interesting names, companies and governmental bodies the committee will ...

  • Malta

    Captain persuades hijackers on Malta landing after telling them plane lacked fuel, court told

    “I could see a small red device with a wire coming out of it,” an air hostess on the Afriqyah Airways Flight 320 from Sebha to Tripoli told the court during the compilation of evidence in the hijacking of the Afriqiyah Airways aircraft just before Christmas.Moussa Shaha Ali Sako and ...

  • Malta

    Researcher and gynaecologist says WHO is lying about morning after pill, insists it is abortive

    Doctor Bruno Mozzanega, researcher and gynaecologist, believes that the World Health Organisation's decision to pass the morning after pill as an anti-fertilisation pill was wrong. He claims that this definition should reflect that truth, that the morning after pill is abortive because it stops the process after fertilization. The mechanism of ...