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Africa’s Trade Finance Gap Persists Despite Post-Pandemic Gains, AfDB Report Warns Pandemic

Africa’s Trade Finance Gap Persists Despite Post-Pandemic Gains, AfDB Report Warns

BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo — African financial institutions demonstrated notable resilience in the years following the Covid-19 pandemic, but the continent’s trade finance gap remains stubbornly wide, according to a new report released by the African Development Bank, AfDB. The fifth edition of the AfDB’s Trade Finance Report, covering the…
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May 29, 2026
Marasuchus Was Built for Speed — and 5 Other Facts About an Ancient Dinosaur Relative Cursor

Marasuchus Was Built for Speed — and 5 Other Facts About an Ancient Dinosaur Relative

Marasuchus is a precursor to dinosaurs, one of its closest relatives from the genus Dinosauriform Archosaur. It belongs to the same reptilian family tree as dinosaurs, birds, and pterosaurs, the flying reptiles from the Age of Dinosaurs. This close relative of the mega-dinosaurs that would come next was tiny and…
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May 29, 2026
Google employee Michele Spagnuolo charged with insider trading Pre-Crime

Google employee Michele Spagnuolo charged with insider trading

A Google software engineer, Michele Spagnuolo has been charged with commodities fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering, stemming from his scheme to misappropriate confidential information from his employer and use that information to place a series of profitable Google-related trades on a prediction market platform.   Mr Spagnuolo, who resides…
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May 28, 2026