Category: World

These 3 primer documents explain how South Africa’s strengths in minerals and metals can underpin growth if persistent logistics constraints are addressed. The bulk minerals and base metals primer summarises global demand patterns for manganese, chromium, iron ore, copper, nickel, cobalt. It explains how they are shaped by industrialisation and the energy transition, and sets […]

This 2-part primer introduces mining’s role in powering global industries and sets the South African context. Mining contributes around 7% of gross domestic product and supports more than 450,000 jobs, underpinned by large platinum group metal reserves and strong positions in gold, manganese, coal and vanadium.  The first report summarise the full value chain from […]

Greg Lindberg, 56, of Tampa, Florida, and the founder and chairman of Eli Global LLC and owner of Global Bankers Insurance Group (GBIG) was sentenced today to a combined 12 years in prison for his role in a bribery conspiracy and multibillion-dollar fraud conspiracy that bankrupted multiple insurance companies with thousands of unpaid policyholder victims.  […]

Oglethorpe Inc. (Oglethorpe), an operator of psychiatric hospitals headquartered in Tampa, Florida, along with its founder and principal owner, Robert Cohen, CEO John Picciano, and Chief Operating Office James O’Shea, have agreed to pay $32 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by knowingly failing to return overpayments received from the […]

The Justice Department announced today that it has obtained an order forfeiting a luxury New York apartment purchased with funds misappropriated from 1MDB, a Malaysian Sovereign Wealth Fund, along with certain rental income. This action resolves a civil forfeiture case filed in the United States District Court for the Central District of California seeking the […]

A Romanian national was sentenced yesterday to 56 months in prison in connection with an online intrusion into an Oregon state government office in 2021 and other cyber-attacks on U.S. victims. According to court documents, Catalin Dragomir, 46, formerly of Constanta, Romania, sold access to a computer on the network of an Oregon state government […]

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the Ebola Bundibugyo virus outbreak in Ituri province was spreading in an environment where insecurity, attacks on health facilities and population movements were making it “nearly impossible” to trace contacts and isolate cases. “We cannot build community trust or isolate the sick while bombs are falling,” he said. The […]

One of science’s main roles in society is to probe extraordinary claims, separate fact from fiction, and set the record straight. But it does not always succeed. Indeed, sometimes the exact opposite happens. “Science” itself can sometimes take things out of context, and present half-truths which, repeated over generations, eventually come to seem like total […]

What happens to language when a growing amount of text published in the press, online and on social media is written by machines? This question is not just important for the profession of journalism – it also has an impact on the richness of the language we all use to comprehend, describe and discuss reality […]

Europe is staring at a dual crisis it hasn’t managed to solve. House prices across Europe have risen 60 percent and rents 30 percent over the past 15 years, while the number of building permits has fallen 20 percent. The European Investment Bank estimates the EU currently needs 2.25 million additional housing units, roughly 50 […]