Ex-Barrick executive to oversee mining policy, compliance Presidency gains direct control over key mining sector functions Industrial gold output down 23% in 2025 on tough rules ACCRA, Jan 22 (Reuters ...

The United States spent the 2010s incrementally upgrading bank-based magnetic-stripe cards with chips. Meanwhile, China leapfrogged the legacy card-based system by rolling out digital wallets and ...

TRAVERSE CITY — Grand Traverse County commissioners want answers about the Chain of Lakes and the work that’s needed on the dams that control their levels. So they voted unanimously this week to seek ...

Addis Ababa, December 8, 2025 (ENA) — Ethiopian Nuclear Energy Commissioner Sandokan Debebe said Ethiopia’s decision to pursue nuclear technology is rooted in clear national energy security, economic ...

The Philippines has lost an estimated 42.3–118.5 billion Philippine pesos (US$713 million–2 billion) a year from flood control corruption since 2023. The scale of illegal wealth accrued by contractors ...

In this July 5, 2017 file photo, Chinese President Xi Jinping attends a press conference after a meeting with the German chancellor in Berlin. In July 2025, Chinese President Xi Jinping was ...

The Nile River dispute traces back more than a century to colonial-era treaties that favored Egypt while ignoring upstream nations. Today, the struggle over water rights has intensified as Ethiopia’s ...

As organizations race to achieve outsized benefits from artificial intelligence (AI), CFOs must address a frequently overlooked driver of optimal AI returns: internal control structures. AI risk ...

AUSTIN (Nexstar) — Gov. Greg Abbott vetoed Senate Bill 18 — a bill passed unanimously in the second-called special session that would remove bureaucratic “red tape” when repairing flood-control ...

(Nairobi) – Ethiopian lawmakers should reject proposed amendments to the civil society law that would grant the government sweeping powers to restrict nongovernmental organizations, Human Rights Watch ...