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Can Canada undo ‘injustice’ of hashish possession convictions? 0

Can Canada undo ‘injustice’ of hashish possession convictions?

Montreal, Canada – Annamaria Enenajor says it’s about righting a wrong. The Toronto-based lawyer is among a group of other professionals and activists leading a campaign to get the Canadian government to grant amnesty to those with simple cannabis possession convictions on their records. With Canada planning to legalise recreational marijuana by July 1, amnesty…

Financial institution Of England will defend hobby rates at zero.5% 0

Financial institution Of England will defend hobby rates at zero.5%

The Bank of England’s headquarters in the City of London, as it announced it will hold interest rates at 0.5% (Picture: Getty)The Bank of England has announced it is keeping its main interest rate at 0.5% amid evidence that the economy is slowing. The bank’s rate-setting committee voted 7-2 today to keep the main rate unchanged.…

Records Factories, Bitcoin Hoarders and LeBron 0

Records Factories, Bitcoin Hoarders and LeBron

My almost Russian-oligarch-free morning train reads: Buffett’s Alpha (SSRN); see also Warren Buffett will live forever, as researchers have cracked his code (MarketWatch) Tech Envisions the Ultimate Start-Up: An Entire City (the Upshot) Libor Refuses to Die, Setting Up $370 Trillion Benchmark Battle (Bloomberg) Asset managers double spending on new data in hunt for edge (Financial Times) Tech’s Two Philosophies (Stratechery) 96-Year-Old Secretary Quietly…

Scientist David Goodall, 104, ends his existence 0

Scientist David Goodall, 104, ends his existence

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionDavid Goodall, 104, sets out his reasons for travelling to Switzerland to voluntarily end his lifeScientist David Goodall, 104, has died after choosing to end his life at a clinic in Switzerland, a right-to-die organisation says. The lauded ecologist and botanist, who was not terminally ill, said…

Extra than 30 killed in Kenya after dam collapse 0

Extra than 30 killed in Kenya after dam collapse

More than 30 people have been killed in Kenya’s Rift Valley after a dam burst its banks following weeks of torrential rain that also forced hundreds from their homes, officials said. Water burst through the banks of the Patel Dam in Solai, Nakuru County, on Wednesday night, sweeping away hundreds of homes, including those on…

Will fatwa by Islamic students drive Taliban to be a half of talks? 0

Will fatwa by Islamic students drive Taliban to be a half of talks?

Prominent Muslim scholars from three countries are set to meet in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, on Friday, aimed at finding a solution to decades of war and bloodshed in Afghanistan. At the trilateral Ulema Conference, scholars from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Indonesia will discuss challenging the narrative of « jihad », or a holy war, pushed by the…

Mindestens 20 Tote bei Dammbruch in Kenia 0

Mindestens 20 Tote bei Dammbruch in Kenia

Bei einem Dammbruch im ostafrikanischen Kenia sind mindestens 20 Menschen ums Leben gekommen. Das Unglück habe sich am Mittwochabend am Solai-Staudamm nahe der Stadt Nakuru rund 150 Kilometer nördlich der Hauptstadt Nairobi ereignet, sagte der örtliche Polizeichef Gideon Kibunjah am Donnerstag der Nachrichtenagentur AFP. Durch die Wassermassen seien ganze Häuser fortgespült worden. Der Staudamm zehn…