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The Anti-Money Laundering Quarterly - July 2025
JD Supra - California
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July 17, 2025
Designed for busy in-house counsel and compliance professionals, this newsletter summarizes some of the most important domestic and international Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regulatory and enforcement developments from the past few months, with...
A Commitment Agreement To Normalize Classes Was Signed By Teachers And The Ministry Of Education (MEDUCA) -
MENAFN
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July 12, 2025
(MENAFN- Newsroom Panama) Representatives of 15 teachers' unions and officials from the Ministry of Education (Meduca) signed an agreement on Friday night, July 11, 2025, to suspend the teacher strike. Fifteen unions signed, while four...
PA Speaker rejects disqualification references
Business Recorder
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July 19, 2025
LAHORE: Punjab Assembly Speaker Malik Muhammad Ahmad Khan on Saturday rejects disqualification references in its land mark decision. The Speaker dismissed disqualification references against 26 opposition members. In a detailed six-page written...
Coffee with… Leagh Turner, CEO, Coupa
Tech Informed
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July 11, 2025
“Talk to me about what’s going on out there—you’ve been to more trade shows than me…” says Leagh Turner, CEO of procurement giant Coupa. Bright, curious, and instantly engaging, it takes a good ten minutes before I get to ask her a single...
Trump’s Brazil tariffs gift Lula surprise tailwind for 2026 vote
The Gazette - Colorado
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Brazil spent months flying under the radar as Donald Trump upended global trade. Now that it’s in the spotlight, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva may stand to benefit from the attention. Hours after the U.S. president threatened to hit Brazil...
Chief Sec applauds young people at Tobago Heritage Festival opening
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
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July 12, 2025
Tobago Corey Connelly 3 Days Ago Members of the Tobago Performing Arts Company perform at the official Tobago Heritage Festival opening, Shaw Park Cultural Complex, July 10 - Photos by Visual Styles THA CHIEF SECRETARY Farley Augustine has...
GT releases China's first large-scale China–LAC perception survey, friendly ties seen as key to future development
Global Times
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Editor's Note: In recent years, China-Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) relations have entered a new phase of equality, mutual benefit, innovation, openness, and people-centered development. Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered a keynote speech...
Corruption must be tackled as a global crisis – Dr Opong-Fosu urges at anti-corruption forum
Graphic
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July 18, 2025
Dr Akwasi Opong-Fosu, Chair of the Africa Global Emergence Centre, has called for a global rethink in the fight against corruption, describing the menace as "corrosive" and a major impediment to equitable development, good governance, and public...
Europe’s Appeasement Dilemma: The Price of Standing Against Putin
Social Europe
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July 18, 2025
While the West rightly resists Russian aggression, European leaders risk self-respect and global standing by appeasing Donald Trump. Since Russia launched its full-scale war against Ukraine, political leaders, experts, journalists, and a renewed...
Three Takeaways From the Third UN Ocean Conference
New Security Beat - Washington DC
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July 10, 2025
“There cannot be a healthy planet without a healthy ocean. It’s urgent business for us all,” said U.N. special envoy for the ocean, Peter Thomson, at last month’s UN Ocean Conference (UNOC). Hosted in Nice, France, the conference brought together...
9 countries with the most IMF debt (2025)
Zambian Observer
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July 11, 2025
As of 21 May 2025, the total outstanding debt owed by countries to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) stands at an eye-watering $117.9 billion. While the IMF serves as a critical financial backstop for nations facing economic challenges, the...
You Have No Idea How Furious the Canadians Are
New York Mag
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July 14, 2025
A now-famous hat, with over 50,000 units (and many knockoffs) sold. Photo: Jon Laytner for New York Magazine This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. In May, I...
Massive layoffs disrupt labor in BDT from “Chiquita” situation.
Panama Now Online
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July 11, 2025
https://newsroompanama.com/2025/07/11/after-massive-layoffs-in-bocas-panamas-president-mulino-pushes-for-chiquitas-return/ Panama’s President José Raúl Mulino pledged on Wednesday to do everything possible to convince U.S. banana giant Chiquita...
Hollister Rotary leadership changes but service continues
BenitoLink - California
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July 18, 2025
Lea este artículo en español aquí. Hollister Rotary, a local nonprofit that takes on community service projects and provides scholarships, announced Bill Baker as its new president this summer. Former president Larry Barr stepped down but will...
K-State men's basketball All-Quarter Century Team
The Manhattan Mercury - Kansas
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July 19, 2025
Kansas State fans saw the gamut of what basketball can offer over the last 25 years. From multiple second-weekend March Madness appearances and conference titles to seasons mired in incompetence, injury, and ineptitude, the last quarter century...
Bright Data beat Elon Musk and Meta in court — now its $100M AI platform is taking on Big Tech
VentureBeat
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July 2, 2025
Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Bright Data, the Israeli web scraping company that defeated both Meta and Elon Musk’s X...
The Weight of China in Ecuador: Broken Promises, Debt, and Consequences – PART II
Dialogo Magazine
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July 7, 2025
At the start of the 21st century, when Ecuador was facing the closure of Western financing due to high debt, China burst onto the scene with million-dollar loans, promises of accelerated development, and a seductive discourse of cooperation...
‘Grateful’: Natalie Milian Orbis stacks $301K to defend her Miami-Dade Commission seat
Florida Politics
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July 10, 2025
She’s unopposed so far, but Natalie Milian Orbis is wasting no time building up a war chest to defend her District 6 seat on the Miami-Dade County Commission. In her first campaign finance filings since she was appointed to the panel, Milian Orbis...
South America Explores Building Own 2,800-Mile Transcontinental Railroad
Newsweek
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July 11, 2025
Brazil and China have signed an agreement to launch a technical, environmental and economic feasibility study for a proposed 2,800-mile railway linking Brazil's Atlantic coast with Peru's Pacific port of Chancay. The memorandum of understanding,...
Map Shows Countries Offering Americans 'Golden Visas'
Newsweek
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July 9, 2025
The past few months have seen a surge in the number of Americans applying for "golden visas" around the world as growing economic uncertainty pushes many wealthy residents to look for stability out of the country. Golden visas, also known as...