US Derivatives Regulator Approves $200M Record Payment to a Whistleblower
Femi Ashekun/ The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (GFTC) has awarded almost $200 million to a former Deutsche Bank employee who…
Former US Secretary of State, Collin Powell, Dies of COVID-19 Complications
Pat Stevens/ The first Black US secretary of state, Colin Powell, died today at the age of 84 due to…
Guidelines for Foreigners Seeking U.S. Employment
Syndicated/ Foreign nationals in the United States have a diverse range of career opportunities. Living and working in a foreign…
35-year-old Austrian Chancellor Resigns over Corruption Probe
Pat Stevens/ Austrian chancellor, Sebastian Kurz, has resigned, just days after he was named as a suspect in an investigation…
Taliban Official: At Least 100 Dead, Wounded in Afghan Mosque Blast
Samya Kullab and Tameem Akhgari (AP)/ An explosion went off Friday among Shiite Muslim worshippers at a mosque in northern…
2021 Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to 2 Journalists who Challenged Putin, Duterte
Femi Ashekun with Associated Press/ Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov, journalists whose work has rattled Presidents Rodrigo Duterte of the…
Congress Agrees to Extend US Debt Ceiling Until December
Pat Stevens/ Democrats and Republicans lawmakers have reached an agreement to extend the US debt ceiling through “early December”, providing…
Telegram Adds 70M Users During WhatsApp 6 Hour Outage
Manish Singh (TechCrunch)/ Facebook’s hours-long outage on Monday may have hurt the company, its founder, shareholders and many businesses that…
Fuel Price Surge: US Considers Tapping into Emergency Oil Reserves
Femi Ashekun/ The US government is considering the possibilty of releasing crude oil from its strategic petroleum reserve to curtail…
Ex-diplomat, Kishida, to Become Japan’s New Prime Minister
Agency Report/ Former Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida won the governing party’s leadership election on Wednesday and is set to…