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How BPMB’s Own Verifications, Audited Revenues, Official Launches and Surviving Physical Traces Expose the “Corrupt Loan” Narrative as a Deliberate, Self-Serving Fabrication Designed to Conceal Economic Sabotage and Human Carnage

Cleaning oilfield pollution in West Texas is costly and complicated – and bankruptcy laws let oil companies off the hook, sticking taxpayers with the bill – according to reporting by Martha Pskowski for Inside Climate News. With support from the Fund, Pskowski spent six months investigating contamination and cleanup efforts on property that the city […]
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Die Aufrüstung der Bundeswehr beflügelt die deutsche Wirtschaft mehr als viele erwartet hatten. Die Investitionen könnten möglicherweise sogar wichtiger sein als das Infrastrukturpaket. (Source: Bloomberg)

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The State of New York plans to ask a judge to dismiss 500 prison sexual abuse cases because of typos and other technicalities in the victims’ legal filings, according to new reporting in New York Focus and Hell Gate. With support from the Fund, Chris Gelardi and Jessy Edwards have spent months compiling and analyzing […]
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KUALA LUMPUR: PPB Group Bhd milik taikun Malaysia Tan Sri Robert Kuok merekodkan kerugian bersih sebanyak RM2.73 bilion

In 2018, the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation was quick to write off the death of Rankin County jail inmate William Wade Aycock IV as an accident. But an investigation by Mississippi Today and The New York Times unearthed new evidence in the case that suggests Aycock was killed. With support from the Fund, the reporting […]
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High-definition satellite imagery shows the massive destruction caused by the bombing of the compound of Iran’s supreme leader in the heart of Tehran.US President Donald Trump declared Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had been killed in the assault by Israel and the United States.

As a single mother of two, Leanne Farrugia was proud to secure a stable job as a junior prison guard at Metropolitan Remand & Reception Centre at Silverwater, in Sydney’s west, in 2018.That sense of security was shattered one night in May 2022. She was at home sick when her supervisor, then-senior correctional officer Scott Hawken, arrived at her house and drugged her.

Britain’s ultimate backstop against flood-related losses is planning to rely more on the capital markets, after its first ever catastrophe bond drew a lot of interest from specialist investors including hedge fund Fermat Capital Management.