German prosecutors on Wednesday arrested four suspected members of a Syrian militia and one suspected member of the Syrian secret service. The detainees are suspected of killing and attempting to kill civilians, which amounts to crimes against humanity and war crimes. Four of them are also accused of torture. The four alleged militia members are […]

Members of ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) can now apply to become a registered accountant. This will help reduce the talent shortage and increase diversity in the audit sector. Following ACCA’s accreditation by the Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors of South Africa last year, ACCA members can now apply to become registered auditors

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s election commission fired its chairman on Wednesday after finding him guilty of sexual abuse, following a complaint from an employee. The General Electoral Commission’s ethics council said its chairman, Hasyim Asyari, carried out the October attack and that the council had “fully accepted” the prosecutor’s complaint, the head of the

TOKYO (AP) — In a landmark ruling, Japan’s Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the government to pay adequate compensation to about a dozen victims who were forcibly sterilized under a now-repealed eugenics protection law that was designed to eradicate the offspring of people with disabilities. An estimated 25,000 people were sterilized without their consent between

Members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization will meet in Kazakhstan on Wednesday. The event takes place at a time when tensions are rising between two of the group’s most powerful members. Russia and China compete for influence in Central Asia. Leaders of a group of countries seen by Russia and China as a counterweight to

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sissi on Wednesday swore in a new government including new defense and foreign ministers amid regional unrest and domestic economic problems. Egypt, which hosts an estimated 9 million refugees and migrants, has been hit hard by fighting between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist Hamas movement in the neighbouring Gaza Strip and by

Belarus’ president called Ukraine an “enemy” and said his troops are ready for battle. Alexander Lukashenko also said his country was increasing its military presence on the border with Ukraine. Lukashenko is a staunch ally of Putin and supported his invasion of Ukraine. Russia’s neighbor and ally Belarus has said it will increase its military

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Seven months after the self-declared Republic of Somaliland agreed on New Year’s Day to lease part of its coastline to neighboring Ethiopia, tensions continue to run high in the Horn of Africa. Somalia is not happy with the maritime agreement, the details of which are still unclear. First, it believes the deal is illegal and

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazil’s industrial production fell 0.9% in May from April, government statistics agency IBGE said on Wednesday, narrower than the 1.7% decline analysts polled by Reuters had expected. Still, Brazilian factories reported their second consecutive month-on-month decline, with a cumulative decline of 1.7% in the period. Output in May fell 1.0% from