Nick Thorpe and Tabby Wilson EPA Denmark has banned all civilian drone flights this week ahead of a European Union summit in Copenhagen, the country’s transport minister said on Sunday. The ministry said the decision was made in order to “simplify security work” for the police, and they could not accept “foreign drones creating uncertainty…
Year after year, Africa’s leaders take the long journey to New York to speak at the United Nations General Assembly. And year after year, they repeat the same demand: Africa must have a permanent seat on the UN Security Council. The hall listens politely, the cameras click, and then nothing changes. The speeches are filed…
Addis Ababa, 24 September 2025 – The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) is pleased to announce a historic milestone: following nearly one year of rigorous Due Diligence Assessment, the United Kingdom has formally approved direct funding to Africa CDC as the framework for partnership. This decision marks a new era of…
LOS ANGELES — San Bernardino Bishop Alberto Rojas, who leads more than 1.5 million Catholics in Southern California, has formally excused parishioners from their weekly obligation to attend Mass following immigration detentions on two parish properties in the diocese. The dispensation is a move usually reserved for extenuating circumstances, like the height of the Covid-19…
A sequestered jury in Australia began deliberations Monday in the triple murder trial of Erin Patterson, accused of killing her estranged husband’s relatives by deliberately serving them poisonous mushrooms for lunch. Three of Patterson’s four lunch guests — her parents-in-law Don and Gail Patterson, and Gail’s sister Heather Wilkinson — died in the hospital after…
Why AML teams need audit-ready due diligence. For anti-money laundering (AML) teams, the stakes have never been higher. Compliance pressures are mounting, onboarding timelines are shrinking and procurement demands faster, more accurate decisions. In this climate, due diligence is a business-critical function. However, when data is scattered across systems and reports take hours (or even…
