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Panama law firm says data hack was external
A marquee of the Arango Orillac Building lists the Mossack Fonseca law firm, in Panama City, Monday, April 4, 2016. Panama’s president says his government will cooperate ‘vigorously’ with any judicial investigation arising from the leak of a vast trove of information on the offshore financial dealings of the world’s rich and...
Panama law firm says data hack was external
A marquee of the Arango Orillac Building lists the Mossack Fonseca law firm, in Panama City, Monday, April 4, 2016. Panama’s president says his government will cooperate ‘vigorously’ with any judicial investigation arising from the leak of a vast trove of information on the offshore financial dealings of the world’s rich and...
Eurovision: Australian entry ‘does not break rules’
Australia’s entry for the Eurovision Song Contest has been cleared of breaching rules on product placement, reports BBC. Dami Im’s song, Sound Of Silence, features the lyric “trying to feel your love through face time,” which some have interpreted as a reference to Apple’s video-chat service FaceTime. Eurovision rules prohibit...
The aftermath of Panama leaks
After the revelations of the Panama Papers, one of the most prominent news stories across the globe, questions have been raised who did it and why. Already, authorities across the globe have opened investigations into the activities of the world’s rich and powerful after a cache of leaked documents from a Panamanian law firm showed possible...
Tax leak exposes world leaders
‘Panama Papers’ reveal tax havens of rich and powerful; Russia says allegations are anti-Putin campaign; UK’s Cameron says family finances a ‘private matter’ Governments across the world began investigating possible financial wrongdoing by the rich and powerful yesterday after a leak of four decades of documents from a...
Huge leak reveals elite’s tax havens
A huge leak of confidential documents has revealed how the rich and powerful use tax havens to hide their wealth. Eleven million documents were leaked from one of the world’s most secretive companies, Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca. They show how Mossack Fonseca has helped clients launder money, dodge sanctions and evade tax. The...
Serena, Murray eliminated from Miami Open
Sports Desk: World No.1 women’s player Serena Williams and male Scot star Andy Murray were both eliminated from the Miami Open tennis tournament. Three-time defending champion, Williams fell to Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova, seeded 15th, 7-6 (3), 1-6, 2-6 in the fourth round here on Monday and Murray was stunned by Bulgarian 26th seed Grigor...
Giant arch to block Chernobyl radiation for next 100 years
In the middle of a vast exclusion zone in northern Ukraine, the world’s largest land-based moving structure has been built to prevent deadly radiation spewing from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site for the next 100 years. …read more Source:...
BREAK THE SILENCE : A world war has begun
This is an edited version of an address by John Pilger at the University of Sydney, entitled: A World War Has Begun I HAVE been filming in the Marshall Islands, which lie north of Australia, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Whenever I tell people where I have been, they ask, ‘Where is that?’ If I offer a clue by referring to...
Wales, N. Ireland plot contrasting Euro paths
LONDON: Two quite different international minnows face off in Cardiff on Thursday as British rivals Wales and Northern Ireland resume preparations for their first ever appearances at a European Championship, reports BSS. Whereas Wales boast stars like Real Madrid’s Gareth Bale and Arsenal’s Aaron Ramsey, Northern Ireland’s...
