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The global technology industry is pressing the World Trade Organization to exempt data flows from cross-border tariffs, saying a failure to do so would undermine a global recovery already threatened by spiralling prices.

The WTO’s 164 members presented their views on the topic on Wednesday, [June 15] the final scheduled day of a four-day ministerial conference.

The global technology industry is pressing the World Trade Organization to exempt data flows from cross-border tariffs, saying a failure to do so would undermine a global recovery already threatened by spiralling prices.

The WTO’s 164 members presented their views on the topic on Wednesday, [June 15] the final scheduled day of a four-day ministerial conference.

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The Virgin Islands financial services industry rushed to distance itself from the Miami arrests last Thursday of Premier Andrew Fahie and BVI Ports Authority Managing Director Oleanvine Maynard — as well as the allegations of likely government corruption contained in the Commission of Inquiry report released the next day.

In a Friday statement, BVI Finance said the arrests “should [not] be conflated with the BVI financial services sector, which is operationally independent.”

Up to US$17 trillion in lifetime earnings could be lost by the current generation of students because of the novel coronavirus pandemic, according to a new report published by the World Bank, UNICEF and UNESCO yesterday.

The figure, which is equivalent to about 14 per cent of today's global gross domestic product (GDP), relates to the learning losses from the pandemic-related school closures and far exceeds the US$10 billion estimate made last year.

Hundreds of millions of people were unable to access Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp for more than six hours on Monday, underscoring the world's reliance on platforms owned by the Silicon Valley giant.

But what actually caused the outage? 

In an apologetic blog post, Santosh Janardhan, Facebook's vice president of infrastructure, said that "configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data centres caused issues that interrupted this communication".

Millions of leaked documents and the biggest journalism partnership in history have uncovered financial secrets of 35 current and former world leaders, more than 330 politicians and public officials in 91 countries and territories, and a global lineup of fugitives, con artists and murderers.

A new global investigation exposing the offshore hideaways of some of the world’s most powerful personalities is launching today after two years of discreet work by investigative journalists around the world.

The project, known as Pandora Papers, is facilitated by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), which obtained a trove of 11.9 million confidential files. The reporting, which is still ongoing, involves more than 600 journalists from 150 news organisations around the world.

Dominican Republic, Haiti, Venezuela, and Colombia are some of the nations that do not meet the requirements of the contest to obtain permanent residence

The United States Department of State that administers the Diversity Visa Program, better known as the “green card lottery,” issued a statement listing the countries that do not qualify to rec

The Chief of Air Staff, Oladayo Amao, has said the Super Tucano fighter jets recently acquired by the Force alone cannot end the country’s security challenges without the collaboration of the ground troops.

The Air Chief stated this on Wednesday in Abuja at a meeting with select editors of Nigerian newspapers.