Armed groups in central Africa are using powerful weapons, some of which may be left over from the civil war in Libya, to kill elephants for their ivory, the United Nations said on Monday.
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Central banks got it right when they saved the world economy, but their unprecedented actions risk disruptive cross-border spillovers and potentially heavy losses when the time comes to reverse course, the IMF said on Thursday.
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The project that would involve a central databank operated by Belgium’s central bank, the privately owned NBB. The Belgian authorities would be given access to the databank and as a result would be able to act swiftly in the event of suspected tax fraud.
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Privacy advocates are up in arms after the Indian government began quietly rolling out a Rs.4 billion(ã47.8m) Central Monitoring System (CMS) designed to give the authorities sweeping access to citizens’ phone calls and internet comms in the name of national security.
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The head of Russia’s Federal Drug Control Service speaks about how the country intends to fight drug trafficking from Central Asia with the help of a new corporation. The jobs initiative will require million in its first phase.
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Central banks, guardians of the world’s trillion in foreign-exchange reserves, are buying stocks in record amounts as falling bond yields push even risk- averse investors toward equities
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As Bloomberg reports, 23% of central bankers surveyed said the bank owns shares and plans to buy more. From the Bank of Japan to the Bank of Israel and with the SNB and the Czech National Bank now at over 10% allocation of reserves to stocks
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She claims Federal Reserve has allowed her deposit of US0 to lose a third of its value. So she sues the Fed, what a load of bollocks.
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A rather popular initiative by the Swiss Peoples Party, or SVP, has gained traction in Switzerland, and the country is now getting ready to hold a referendum on whether its central bank can sell gold reserves.
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Military leaders from the Pentagon, Italy and Germany were in Central New York this week to witness a classified test of a missile defense system. As part of the test, a small plane and a simulated tactical ballistic missile were detected and tracked by the Medium Extended Air Defense System, or MEADS, its developers said today.
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