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Belarus releases 123 prisoners including Nobel prize laureate Bialiatski in exchange for U.S. sanctions relief

eriinfo.com3 weeks ago06 mins

Belarusian authorities have released Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski and key opposition figure Maria Kolesnikova from prison, Pavel Sapelka, human rights advocate with the Viasna rights group, confirmed to the AP. Their release comes as authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko seeks to improve relations with Washington. The U.S. earlier on Saturday announced lifting sanctions on…

Global futures reopen after exchange operator CME hit by hours-long outage | Financial Markets News

eriinfo.com1 month ago05 mins

CME blamed the outage, which halted trading for more than 11 hours, on a cooling failure at a data centre in Chicago. Global futures markets were thrown into chaos for several hours after CME Group, the world’s largest exchange operator, suffered one of its longest outages in years, halting trading across stocks, bonds, commodities and…

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Africa: BFA Bank Secures Largest Stock Exchange Transaction in Africa

eriinfo.com3 months ago02 mins

Luanda — According to the Angolan Debt and Securities Exchange (BODIVA), the public offering (OPV) of 29.75% of Banco de Fomento Angola (BFA) shares on the stock exchange, which was completed last week and raised 242 million U.S. dollars, was the largest transaction carried out in the country and in Africa this year. BODIVA considers…

Winklevoss-founded crypto exchange Gemini prices IPO at $28

eriinfo.com4 months ago04 mins

Tyler Winklevoss and Cameron Winklevoss (L-R), creators of crypto exchange Gemini Trust Co., on stage at the Bitcoin 2021 Convention, a cryptocurrency conference held at the Mana Convention Center in Wynwood in Miami, Florida, on June 4, 2021. Joe Raedle | Getty Images Gemini Space Station, the crypto company founded by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, priced its…

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Africa: A Conversation With Anisia Uzeyman and Saul Williams Directors of Neptune Frost Afropop – the Ultimate Cultural Exchange

eriinfo.com6 months ago081 mins

AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange, the Peabody Award-winning series by Black Public Media (BPM) and WORLD, is bringing for another gripping season of powerful films, featuring two stories featuring LGBTQ+ protagonists to Season 17. The films Neptune Frost, by Anisia Uzeyman and Saul Williams, and Mama Gloria, by Luchina Fisher, present an Afrofuturistic tale of…

U.S. Embassy in Qatar warns Americans to shelter in place as Iran and Israel exchange fire

eriinfo.com6 months ago02 mins

The U.S. Embassy in Qatar warned American citizens on Monday to shelter in place. “Out of an abundance of caution we recommend American citizens shelter in place until further notice,” the embassy said in a notice posted online on Monday. The State Department had earlier warned U.S. citizens around the world to “exercise increased caution,”…

Crypto exchange Afridax taps Zulu in expansion drive

eriinfo.com7 months ago05 mins

Frank Leonette, founder of Afridax. Newly-launched South African crypto-currency exchange Afridax has added Zulu language on the platform in a bid to attract more local users. The exchange has also set its sights on introducing more vernacular languages on the platform in the near future. Founded by crypto veteran Frank Leonette, Afridax is looking to…