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Brasile
Polícia faz ação para prender 11 pessoas acusadas de lavagem de dinheiro
Policiais civis fazem nesta segunda-feira (26/6) uma operação para cumprir 11 mandados de prisão preventiva de acusados de lavar dinheiro para as facções criminosas que controlam o comércio de drogas no Rio de Janeiro. Além da lavagem de dinheiro, a chama Operação Network investiga uma rede para obter informações acerca ...
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Brasile
No Dia em Apoio às Vítimas de Tortura, secretária diz que prática persiste
A secretária especial de Direitos Humanos, Flávia Piovesan, disse que, embora a Constituição de 1988 proíba a tortura e o Brasil tenha ratificado convenções da Organização das Nações Unidas (ONU) que condenam esse tipo de crime, a prática ainda persiste no país. Ela destacou a importância da criação no Brasil ...
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Cina Australia
China Jails Workers From Crown Resorts of Australia in Message to Casinos
The employees, including the head of V.I.P. international operations, have been detained since October in a case that has spooked foreign gambling operators.
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USA
Nigerian rapper, Sauce Kid, gets two-year jail in America for stealing $15,388
Nigerian rapper, Babalola Falemi, popularly known as Sauce Kid, is to spend the next two years in an American prison for stealing $15,388. Law enforcement agents caught up with him as he wanted to board a flight at Boise Airport in Idaho, United States of America. Falemi was said to have obtained ...
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Nigeria
NCDMB partners NUJ on capacity building for journalists
Simon Utebor, Yenagoa The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board has expressed its preparedness to partner with the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Bayelsa State Council, on building capacity for journalists in the state. The Executive Secretary, NCDMB, Mr. Simbi Wabote, made this known when he received a delegation of the ...
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Nigeria
Sexual assault: Lagos upgrades 40 primary health care centres
In a renewed effort to ensure that victims of all forms of sexual assault receive adequate medical assistance, the Lagos State Government has upgraded 40 Primary Healthcare Centres across the State to cater for all related cases. This is just as the Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team ...
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Nigeria
Drug abuse among girls worrisome – NDLEA
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency in Yobe has described as ‘worrisome’ increase in the number of females abusing drugs in the state. Commander of the agency in the state, Mr. Apeh Reuben, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Damaturu on Monday that young girls between the ages of ...
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Nigeria
CBN’s intervention in FX market temporal – Prof. Nwaekeaku
Prof. Charles Nwaekeaku of Nassarawa State University, says the Central Bank of Nigeria’s interventions in the Foreign Exchange Market is a temporary relief. Nwaekeaku, a lecturer at the Pubic Administration Department, said that CBN might not be able to sustain the interventions. “CBN’s intervention in the foreign exchange business is ...
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EU worries over 372 trade barriers against exporters
The EU has expressed worry over 372 trade barriers against its exporters in 2016 largely by some of the G20 countries. The union in its annual report published on Monday stated that largest share of the barriers came from Russia, Brazil, China, India and Indonesia. The EU expressed concern that Russia introduced ...
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Kazakistan
Kazakhstan seeks role as capital of ‘New Silk Road’
Hosting major international fora, Astana is becoming an important venue for Euroasian economy.