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Amir meets Lebanese Caretaker Prime Minister
 19 Apr 2021 - 22:07
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Doha: The Amir HH Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani met with HE Caretaker Prime Minister of the Lebanese Republic Dr. Hassan Diab and the accompanying delegation at his office in Al Bahr Palace on Monday evening.
The meeting reviewed the bilateral relations and aspects of the mutual cooperation and ways of developing and enhancing them.
The meeting touched on the situation in Lebanon, as Dr. Diab briefed HH the Amir on the latest developments, in particular the political and economic challenges, and the efforts made to overcome them, expressing thanks and appreciation to HH the Amir for the continued support provided by the State of Qatar to Lebanon and its constant standing with the Lebanese people.

Endowment Insurance Market to See Huge Growth by 2026 : Chubb, Sun Life Philippines, AMP, Aviva
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33 Years After the Anfal Campaign, Iraq’s Kurds are Still Vulnerable
The Peshmerga force which was established to emancipate the Kurds cannot guarantee their existence let alone their freedom.
In 1988, the Baathist regime of Iraq subjected more than a quarter of the Iraqi Kurds to one of the worst crimes of the last century. In the so-called Anfal campaign more than 182,000 people were buried alive, sold, or disappeared. Acquaintances of the victims are still living with the hope that their relatives will one day come back.
Iraqi Kurds are still vulnerable. The Kurdish-Yazidigenocide of 2014 is a conspicuous case. Currently, the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) is more divided and weakened than ever before. The KRI maintains a massive security service but is unable to protect its populationandterritory. The Peshmerga forces were initially organized in 1943 By Mustafa Barzani to secure Kurdish rights in Iraq. However, Barzani fled Iraq, crossed the border to Iran, and pledged allegiance to defend the newly established Republic of Mahabad and preserve its freedom. The republic fell and its president Qazi Muhammad was executed in public. Similarly, the KRI’s Peshmerga failed to save the Iraqi Kurds and large swathes of its territory. In other words, when military security is in ruins, it renders the rest of the security services redundant.

Insurance Compliance Software Market May Set New Growth Story : Applied Epic, EZLynx, Vertafore
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TORONTO, April 19, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- VITALHUB CORP. (TSXV:VHI) (the "Company" or "VitalHub") is pleased to announce today that it has acquired (the "Acquisition") S12 Solutions Ltd. ("S12 Solutions"). This is VitalHub's 10
th acquisition completed since 2017 and marks continued expansion into the growing mental health patient-care sector.
S12 Solutions has a recurring revenue base of £1,550,000 (C$2,617,000) which represents almost all of its revenue and adds to VitalHub's growing Annualized Contract Value ("ACV") [footnote 1] base;
For the first quarter ending March 31, 2021, S12 Solutions had an unaudited total revenue of approximately £282,800 (C$477,423) generating an unaudited EBITDA of £48,500 (C$81,878).
VitalHub's ACV, including the recently-announced acquisition of selected assets of Jayex Healthcare Ltd. and the acquisition of S12 Solutions, now stands at C$18,187,000 (excluding Q1 2021 organic growth which has not yet been reported);

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LONDON, April 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The money is starting to pour into clean energy from all corners as the energy transition emerges as a wildly lucrative opportunity rather than simply a threat to the oil and gas industry.   Mentioned in today's commentary includes: 
Fisker Inc. (NYSE: FSR),
General Motors Company (NYSE: GM),
Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F),
Li Auto Inc. (NASDAQ: LI),
XPeng Inc. (NYSE: XPEV).
For the first time in 2020, energy transition investment topped half a trillion ... and that's just the starting point. BloombergNEF says clean energy investment is set to hit
$14 trillion in assets of institutions, foundations, and endowments are ready to back an energy transition. Forbes calls it a "paradigm shift" …

The Government has come under fire for 'adding countries onto a red list when it is too late' after India became the latest nation to face a UK travel ban amid a surge in cases of a variant that first emerged there. 
Ministers are facing questions over why arrivals were not banned immediately from India, which is now dealing with a second wave of the virus, despite the Covid variant being under investigation for almost three weeks. 
Shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds said the Government's failure to introduce stronger restrictions at the border had left the country 'exposed to mutations of the virus'.

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Iranians march against the US assassination of Iran’s anti-terror commander Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, leader of Iraq’s Popular Mobilisation Units, fighting the US-backed Isis terrorists
IRAN’S President Hassan Rouhani says the lifting of all US sanctions will create ‘a new atmosphere’ for the Islamic Republic’s economic cooperation with the world.
In a meeting with Serbian Foreign Minister Nikola Selakovic in Tehran on Sunday, Rouhani condemned the United States’ illegal sanctions and economic war against the Iranian people for the past three years.
He said the new administration in Washington has pledged to rejoin the 2015 nuclear deal officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

For the first time in over a year, the sounds of yak bells and foreigners’ footsteps are filling the
 foothills of Mount Everest. As the coronavirus spread last spring, Nepal locked down its borders on March 24, 2020. The country stayed closed until this month, when it fully opened its mountains to climbers who pass a COVID-19 protocol. According to Nepal’s Department of Immigration, nearly 15,000 trekkers and tourists arrived in the country in March, over half of them coming from nearby India. (In normal years, that number is usually closer to 150,000 for the same time frame.)
As of mid-April, Nepal had issued 338 permits for Everest climbers, spread across 36 teams. But more

India is being added to the UK’s travel ‘red list’ after Boris Johnson cancelled his visit amid surging coronavirus cases and alarm about a new variant.
Matt Hancock told MPs today that the government had made the ‘difficult’ decision to place the country in the highest level of restrictions from 4am on Friday. 
Some 103 cases of the variant first identified in India have now been identified in the UK, with the ‘vast majority’ linked to international travel, he said. 
‘After studying the data and on a precautionary basis we have made the difficult but vital decision to add India to the red list,’ the Health Secretary said. 

Pakistan on Monday urged the Taliban to remain engaged in the Afghan peace process after the armed group said it would now shun summits about Afghanistan until

FC Goa will play their third AFC Champions League game on April 20 against the reigning Iranian champions...

Afghanistan withdrawal draws concerns over abducted American
By ERIC TUCKERApril 20, 2021 GMT
FILE - In this March 9, 2020, file photo, Washington's peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad attends the inauguration ceremony for Afghan President Ashraf Ghani at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan. There are growing concerns about one American who risks being left behind as the U.S. moves to withdraw its military from Afghanistan. A contractor from Lombard, Illinois, Mark Frerichs, is believed to have been held for more than a year by the Taliban-affiliated Haqqani network. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)
FILE - In this March 9, 2020, file photo, Washington's peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad attends the inauguration ceremony for Afghan President Ashraf Ghani at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan. There are growing concerns about one American who risks being left behind as the U.S. moves to withdraw its military from Afghanistan. A contractor from Lombard, Illinois, Mark Frerichs, is believed to have been held for more than a year by the Taliban-affiliated Haqqani network. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

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FILE - In this March 9, 2020, file photo, Washington's peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad attends the inauguration ceremony for Afghan President Ashraf Ghani at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan. There are growing concerns about one American who risks being left behind as the U.S. moves to withdraw its military from Afghanistan. A contractor from Lombard, Illinois, Mark Frerichs, is believed to have been held for more than a year by the Taliban-affiliated Haqqani network. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)
April 19, 2021 - 9:08 PM
WASHINGTON - As the U.S. moves to withdraw its military from Afghanistan over the next five months, concerns are growing about one American who risks being left behind.

Chicago, Ill., Apr 19, 2021 / 20:01 pm America/Denver (CNA).
Recent reporting from the Chicago Sun-Times highlighted several religious orders active in Chicago that have not released lists of members credibly accused of sexual abuse.
Blase Cardinal Cupich of Chicago had 2018 requested that orders active in his local Church do so.
The Archdiocese of Chicago has said that Cardinal Cupich intends to only list archdiocesan clergy accused of abuse, leaving each individual order to list its own credibly accused clerics.
The Sun-Times notes that the adjacent dioceses of Joliet and Rockford list on their websites religious clerics who are credibly accused of abuse and who are or were active in those dioceses.

UK travel red list explained after India added over variant concern
People coming to the UK from India will be forced to quarantine in a government hotel
People get tested for coronavirus in India (Image: AP)
India will be added to the coronavirus travel "red list" on Friday, over concerns over a new variant found in the country.
Matt Hancock said: "We've recently seen a new variant first identified in India. We've now detected 103 cases of this variant, of which again the vast majority have links to international travel and have been picked up by our testing at the border."

April 12, 20215:36 PM UTC
Middle EastTaliban refuse to attend summit on Afghan peace in Turkey if held this week -spokesman
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The Afghan Taliban said on Monday they were not willing to attend a major summit on the Afghan peace process in Turkey if it took place this week, the militant group's spokesman said.
Turkey is hosting a crucial meeting this month with the United Nations and Qatar as part of a U.S.-backed push to jump-start the Afghan peace process.
Diplomats and officials briefed on the matter said it was planned to take place over 10 days from April 16, though the date had not been finalised or officially announced.

Egypt, Qatar rapprochement picks up momentum
Months after a reconciliation agreement was signed, relations between Egypt and Qatar remain shy amid small steps at rapprochement.
A picture taken on June 6, 2017, shows the building of the Qatari Embassy in the Egyptian capital Cairo.
April 20, 2021
CAIRO — Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi received a phone call April 12 from Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani. The call, at the start of the holy month of Ramadan, was the first contact between the two leaders since a reconciliation agreement was signed between Qatar and its Gulf neighbors as well as Egypt in the Saudi city of al-Ula in January, ending the diplomatic rift that emerged in 2017. 

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QUESTION: Do Americans have to be concerned about having money in foreign exchanges in places like London or other European countries if they impose capital controls? Is this as big a risk for Americans and you wrote it is for Europeans?
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ANSWER: Yes. They will require you to prove that you are not fronting for someone else. When I was going to work for a few months in Singapore, a friend of mine there asked if he could find me a condo to rent rather than a hotel. He put down the rent deposit, and I wired off $6,000. Two months later, when I got there, he said he never got the wire. I called my bank and told them to put on a trace, and HSBC returned the wire that day. They refused to credit his account because they could not verify I had no ownership in his account. I had to write him a check. Capital controls can be a real problem even for legitimate transfers.

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At least two members of the public uprising forces were killed and four others were wounded in a Taliban attack in Herat province, local residents said.
The attack took place at around 2 am in Ghorian district in Herat province following a car bomb explosion close to police HQ and a public uprising forces’ outpost, Sayed Wahid Qatali, the provincial governor said.
One of the wounded is in critical condition, he said.
Qatali said that forces targeted an explosive-laden vehicle belonging to the Taliban before it could reach it’s target.
The governor said that after the car bomb exploded, a fierce clash broke out between security forces and the Taliban, and as a result, 15 Taliban militants were killed and three others were wounded.

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