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Crown Resorts: Casino firm fined over illegal China dealings
BBC News 31 May 2022
Crown acknowledged its "historic failings" and says its top executives were in the process of reforming how the company operates ... The regulator found that Crown had processed A$164m Australian dollars in China UnionPay card payments, drawing in A$32m of revenue in the process, between 2012 and 2016.
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Johnny Depp appears on stage with Jeff Beck again – fuelling speculation he will not return to court
Independent online (SA) 31 May 2022
Johnny Depp has performed on stage again with Jeff Beck again in an apparent confirmation he will not be in court to hear the verdict of his $100 million (about R1.5 billion) defamation case against ex-wife Amber Heard ... It is also fuelling speculation he will choose to tour with Beck instead of going back to court in the US.
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Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia ditches referendum on joining Russia
France24 31 May 2022
The leader of Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia on Monday scrapped plans to hold a referendum on joining Russia which his predecessor had scheduled for July 17. ... In a decree issued Monday, the Moscow-controlled enclave's president Alan Gagloev invoked "uncertainty of the legal consequences of the issue submitted to a referendum".
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All 22 Bodies Recovered In Nepal Plane Crash Incident
NDTV 31 May 2022
All 22 bodies have been recovered from the incident site in the Tara airplane crash that took place in the Mustang district of Nepal on Sunday morning ... .
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Over 500 killed in Mali clashes as military junta loses grip
The Times of India 31 May 2022
Over 500 civilians died in attacks carried out by armed forces and Islamist groups in Mali from January to March this year, the United Nations said in a report on Monday that detailed a rapid unravelling of an already desperate security situation ... France beat them back, but by 2015 they had regrouped and unleashed a wave of attacks in the centre.
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Mexico scrambles to clear mudslides and floods after Hurricane Agatha slammed into land at a record-breaking 105mph
The Daily Mail 31 May 2022
National Hurricane Center (NHC), which maintained a warning of life-threatening flash floods and mudslides in Oaxaca state ... Rain caused mud and rocks to slide into two highways in Oaxaca, blocking access to at least one area of the state, local authorities said.
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Russian troops take ‘control’ in part of key city of Severodonetsk as oil embargo agreed
Gulf News 31 May 2022
Russian forces have taken partial control of a key industrial city in eastern Ukraine, a regional governor said on Tuesday, hours after European Union leaders struck a deal to ban more than two-thirds of Moscow’s oil imports ... But Ukrainian forces have pushed back in the southern region of Kherson, the country’s military leadership has said.
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Democrats attacking me and sidelining Tesla, SpaceX: Musk
The Siasat Daily 31 May 2022photo: Creative Commons
Ethereum’s merge could help save DeFi TVL, Bloomberg reports
Cryptoslate 31 May 2022
DeFi investors are hoping that Ethereum’s Merge will pull the crypto market out of its current bear market, according to a Bloomberg report. Data from DeFiLlama shows the total value of assets locked in the space has touched new lows ... Vance Spencer, the co-founder of venture capital firm Framework Ventures, while speaking about the event, said.
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Hungary's Orban hails exemption in EU Russian oil ban
The Times of India 31 May 2022photo: AP / Chen Si
Shanghai moves toward ending its costly 2-month COVID-19 lockdown
The Los Angeles Times 31 May 2022
Shanghai authorities say they will take some major steps Wednesday toward reopening China’s largest city after a two-month COVID-19 lockdown that has throttled the national economy and largely bottled up millions of people in their homes ... World & Nation Troubles mount in China ahead of Xi’s bid to stay in power.
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Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile exceeds 2015 deal limit by 18 times
The Arab Weekly 31 May 2022
The UN nuclear watchdog said Monday that it estimated Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium had grown to more than 18 times the limit laid down in Tehran’s 2015 deal with world powers ... The limit in the 2015 deal was set at 300 kilogrammes (kg) of a specific compound, the equivalent of 202.8 kg of uranium.
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US National Guard to Cooperate With Taiwan Military: President Tsai
The Epoch Times 31 May 2022photo: AP / Yuichi Yamazaki/Pool Photo
Australia's Labor Party wins enough seats to govern alone
ABC News 31 May 2022
Australia’s liberal Labor Party has secured enough seats to hold an outright majority in the House as vote counting from an election 10 days ago continues ... .
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Biden rules out sending rocket systems 'that can strike into Russia' to Ukraine
The Jordan Times 31 May 2022
Kyiv has asked the United States for mobile batteries of long-range rockets, the M270 MLRS and the M142 Himars, which can launch multiple rockets at the same time with a range of up to 300 kilometres, eight times or more the distance of artillery in the field.