A high profile London firm Mishcon de Reya has agreed to pay £232,500 – one of the biggest fines ever imposed by the regulator – over several breaches relating to money laundering rules.
The firm admitted failing to secure adequate due diligence…
The United Kingdom has resumed work and study visa applications processing in Nigeria.
Nigerians were urged applicants to proceed to UK visa application centres for their Priority Visa Services in their country.
In a post via its verified social media handles, UKinNigeria posted,…
A United States Court will on February 14 sentence social media influencer Ramon Abbas Olorunwa – also known as Hushpuppi – for his role in laundering an alleged $24million.
Court documents unsealed last July indicated that Hushpuppi could face up to 20…
Burkina Faso’s military has announced it has removed the president, Roch Marc Kaboré, from office, suspended the constitution and dissolved the government and parliament, confirming a coup in a statement on the state broadcaster.
In a statement signed by the coup leader, Lt…
Pakistan swore in its first woman Supreme Court judge Monday in what is being hailed as a landmark moment in the historically male-dominated judicial history of the Muslim-majority nation.
Ayesha Malik, 55, took the oath at a ceremony in the capital Islamabad that…
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was on Monday given permission to appeal against a decision to extradite him to the United States.
Washington wants to put the 50-year-old Australian on trial in connection with WikiLeaks’ publication of 500,000 secret military files relating to…
The UK government and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) are set for a court battle over a story the broadcaster wants to air which would reportedly identify a spy.
The Telegraph has reported that the programme would reveal the identity of the intelligence…
President Biden on Wednesday announced eight judicial nominees, including Nusrat Choudhury, who would be the first Muslim woman to serve as a federal judge.
Choudhury, currently the legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois, has been tapped to be a…
Austria’s lower house of parliament passed a bill on Thursday making COVID-19 vaccinations compulsory for adults as of Feb. 1, bringing Austria closer to introducing the first such sweeping coronavirus vaccine mandate in the European Union.
Faced with a stubbornly high number…
A 26- year-old Muslim woman Aneeqa Atteeq has been sentenced to death by a court in Pakistan for allegedly sending blasphemous messages on WhatsApp and Facebook.
She was found guilty of insulting Islam’s Prophet Mohammed.
According to reports, she met her accuser online…
