A diehard Kansas City Chiefs fan was indicted on bank robbery and money laundering charges. Xaviar “ChiefsAholic” Babudar faces 19 charges in total – 11 of money laundering, four of transporting stolen property across state lines, three of armed bank robbery and
Nigeria’s suspended central bank governor Godwin Emefiele will appear in a high court in Abuja on Thursday, when he is expected to enter a plea in a 20-count indictment, a government lawyer said on Wednesday. Government lawyers, on Tuesday, said they had
Bank of Ireland has warned customers that if they withdraw funds from ATMs their accounts will still be debited, after it emerged that some people with very low balances were able to take out euros in cash following an IT failure. An
In a fresh wave of violence gripping the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces reportedly shot and killed two Palestinians, including a 16-year-old youth. This incident adds to the escalating tension in the region, which has also been marred by attacks attributed to
Lebanon’s interim central bank governor Monday froze the accounts of the bank’s embattled former chief and close relatives and associates days after the United States, United Kingdom and Canada slapped sanctions on them. Wassim Mansouri’s decision was made public following a meeting
The Israeli military stormed into a refugee camp in the northern occupied West Bank on Friday, sparking a firefight with Palestinian gunmen and killing a Palestinian man, medics said. The raid into the Tulkarem refugee camp was the latest deadly Israeli military
Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian militant in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, the latest death in an unabating wave of violence to grip the region. The death brings the number of Palestinians killed in the West Bank this year
The World Bank said it will not consider new loans to Uganda after the East African country earlier this year enacted an anti-gay bill that rights groups and others have condemned. The World Bank had deployed a team to Uganda after the
Israel demolishes West Bank home of Palestinian man who allegedly shot and killed 2 Israeli brothers
Israeli security forces on Tuesday demolished the West Bank home of a Palestinian man accused of carrying out a deadly shooting attack earlier this year, the military said, the latest incursion to fuel tensions in the occupied territory. Israel’s decades-old tactic of
The Bank of England is “walking a tightrope” and may tip Britain into recession thanks to its interest rate rises, an investment expert has said. Threadneedle Street today (August 3) decided to increase its base rate from 5 percent to 5.25 per