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News24 | Archbishop of Canterbury should have ensured 'serial abuser' could not continue SA abuse - report

The now former Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby should have taken additional steps to ensure that a church leader who left the UK suddenly could not continue his abuse in South Africa, a report suggests.




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Washington Capitals' Top Center Rips Off Bust Label As Ovechkin's Helper

Washington Capitals center Dylan Strome needed time and three NHL teams to develop into a force. But his three seasons with the Caps so far have removed any bust labels.




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Charlottetown spends over $6 million on 4 new electric transit buses

The City of Charlottetown is getting ready to electrify the transit system in the capital region, but it might be a while before routes are expanded.



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Ottawa businesses worry about potential postal disruption

Businesses in Ottawa are bracing for the prospect of a postal strike or lockout on the eve of the holiday shopping season.



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News24 Business | Treasury proposes minimum alcohol price, changes to excise rules

Treasury has proposed the implementation of a floor price below which alcoholic beverages cannot be sold.




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News24 Business | Carbon tax: Eskom to receive 'price neutrality' in phase 2

Treasury has published a discussion document on phase 2 of the carbon tax, which kicks in 1 January 2026




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News24 Business | Bitcoin hits $91 000 for first time on Trump support

Bitcoin reached a record high above $91 000 Wednesday as the world's biggest cryptocurrency benefits from president-elect Donald Trump's pledge to ease regulation around digital tokens.




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What 23andMe business troubles could mean for users' genetic data

The company is laying off 40% of its workforce and discontinuing its therapeutics division.




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News24 Business | Telkom wins order to raid company it says used stolen data to 'poach' clients

A source says over 1 300 customers have been lured away using data allegedly harvested by a franchise employee.




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News24 Business | Blockbuster game boosts Tencent's profit

Tencent's revenue rose 8% after the summer release of Dungeon & Fighter Mobile helped China's most valuable company resist a severe economic downturn.




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News24 Business | SA data centre giant taps Absa for R8bn loan to build AI-ready facility

Teraco Data Environments hired Absa to syndicate an R8 billion loan as the company gears up for a new facility to meet rising demand from artificial intelligence applications.




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News24 Business | Prosus unlocks R36bn through Swiggy's India IPO, eyes PayU in 2025

Prosus, the consumer internet behemoth and Naspers subsidiary, says it unlocked $2 billion (about R36 billion) in value after the listing of Indian food delivery giant Swiggy on Wednesday.




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News24 Business | TFG's Bash buys Zando online domain

TFG's Bash platform, which is set to break even or be profitable two years earlier than forecast, has bought the South African domain name of the now-defunct online fashion retailer Zando.




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News24 Business | Virgin Active owner Brait gets investee boost, but NAV halves after hefty shareholder lift

Investment holding company Brait reported a boost from its underlying portfolio on Wednesday, including a 6% rise in Virgin Active membership.




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News24 Business | Mall owner frets about fire risk, insurance amid Joburg water crisis

While SA's commercial property prospects are improving along with renewed interest from investors, Dipula Income Fund says Johannesburg's water crisis is a significant concern for landlords, carrying serious ramifications for fire protection and insurance.




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News24 Business | Suspended Lotteries company secretary loses again in court

Nompumelo Nene is facing disciplinary proceedings and has launched several applications in an attempt to stop them.




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News24 Business | Emira still avoiding new SA deals as it eyes massive Polish payday

Emira Property Fund's partnership with Poland-focused DL Invest Group includes redemption clauses that could yield it up to R4.2 billion in five years, more than 70% of Emira's current market value on the JSE.




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News24 Business | Business brief | Southern Sun sees earnings rise; China boosts its property market

An overview of the biggest business developments in SA and beyond.




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News24 Business | Union says ArcelorMittal strike to start on Thursday, picket planned for Vanderbijlpark

South Africa's metalworkers' union said it will go on strike at ArcelorMittal South Africa Ltd on Thursday to protest job cuts that have impacted 107 workers.




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News24 Business | Brait eyes riding off into the sunset by end 2027 as it guns for New Look, Virgin Active sales

Brait is looking to sell UK fashion retailer New Look between October 2025 and March 2026 with a Virgin Active sale or initial public offering (IPO) targeted a year later, after which the rest of its operations will be wound down.




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News24 Business | Postbank turns the tide: Profits rise, fraud down as cleanup pays off

Postbank has said that it has reached a profit in the first two quarters of the financial year, with reported cases of fraud down 80% year-on-year.




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Karan Arjun Completes 30 Years: Shah Rukh Khan-Salman Khan Blockbuster To Re-Release On This Date

Karan Arjun narrates the story of two brothers, murdered by their greedy uncle. Reincarnated, they return to complete their mission of vengeance




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The Internet Thinks Ameesha Patel Is Dating Businessman Nirvaan Birla: "Lovely Evening With My Darling"

Ameesha addressed Nirvaan as "darling" in the caption




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Delhi Government Appeals To Lt Governor For Reinstatement Of Bus Marshals

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Wednesday said only the lieutenant governor has the power to formulate a policy for permanently reinstating the bus marshals as it is a matter of services and law and order.




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Delhi Government Appeals To Lt Governor For Reinstatement Of Bus Marshals

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Wednesday said only the lieutenant governor has the power to formulate a policy for permanently reinstating the bus marshals as it is a matter of services and law and order.




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North West businessman and his company fined for fraud and contravening tax laws




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Foreign national businessman kidnapped in the Eastern Cape




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Nevada trial set for ‘Dances with Wolves’ actor in newly-revived sex abuse case

LAS VEGAS — Former “Dances with Wolves” actor Nathan Chasing Horse is set to stand trial early next year in Las Vegas on charges that he sexually abused Indigenous women and girls, a significant development in the sweeping criminal case after more than a year of stalled court proceedings while he challenged it. His trial in Clark County District Court is currently scheduled to begin on Jan. 13, court records show. He pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to 21 felonies, including sexual assault, kidnapping and producing and possessing videos of child sexual abuse, KLAS-TV in Las Vegas reported. Prosecutors are […]...

Keep on reading: Nevada trial set for ‘Dances with Wolves’ actor in newly-revived sex abuse case




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Mexican lawmakers reelect human rights agency leader criticized for not addressing abuses

mexico city — Legislators from Mexico's ruling party reelected the head of the National Human Rights Commission on Wednesday despite widespread opposition and her failure to call out the government for abuses.  The reelection of Rosario Piedra Ibarra in a party-line Senate vote appeared to be another example of the ruling Morena party's attempts to weaken independent oversight bodies. Morena has proposed eliminating a host of other oversight, transparency and freedom-of-information agencies, claiming they cost too much to run.  Mexico's civic and nonprofit rights groups have been almost unanimous in their criticism of Piedra's reelection.  "This is an undeserved prize for a career marked by inaction, the loss of independence and the weakening of the institution," the Miguel Agustin Pro Juarez human rights center wrote on social media.  Piedra is a committed supporter of former President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who left office on September 30. She once affirmed that none of the deaths caused by the armed forces under his administration were illegal or unjustified, and she shared the former president's delight in attacking and criticizing other independent human rights groups.  Commission issues few recommendations Since her first election in 2019, Piedra has done little to investigate allegations of massacres or extrajudicial killings by soldiers and members of the militarized National Guard, to whom Lopez Obrador gave sweeping powers.  Despite receiving over 1,800 citizen complaints against the armed forces between 2020 and 2023, her commission issued only 39 recommendations, and most of the few military cases her commission did follow up on involved abuses committed under previous administrations.  The rights commission has the power to make non-binding recommendations to government agencies. If they do not agree to follow the recommendations, they are at least required by law to explain why.  Piedra has almost exclusively focused the commission's work on issuing recommendations in cases where people have not received proper health care at government-run hospitals. Those recommendations accomplish little, because they don't address the underlying problem of underfunded, poorly equipped hospitals forced to handle too many patients.  At times Piedra acted as if human rights violations no longer existed under Lopez Obrador. In 2019, she expressed disbelief when asked about the killing of journalists, despite the fact that almost a dozen were killed in Lopez Obrador's first year in office.  "Are they killing journalists?" she said with an expression of disbelief.  'Her actions appear to support impunity ' Piedra comes from a well-known activist family: Her mother founded one of Mexico's first groups to demand answers for families whose relatives had been abducted and disappeared by the government in the 1960s and '70s. But even her mother's group, the Eureka Committee, did not support Piedra's reelection.  "Her actions appear to support impunity for the perpetrators of governmental terrorism, and the government's line of obedience and forgetting" rights abuses, the committee wrote in a statement.  Piedra broke with two important traditions: she was a member of the ruling party up until she was elected to her first term in 2019. The job has usually gone to nonpartisan human rights experts.  And she has openly endorsed and supported government policies and actions. Previous heads of the commission had a more critical relationship with the government.  Piedra also failed to make the final cut for candidates for the post this year in a congressional examination of their qualifications, but was put on the ballot anyway.  That's important because similar evaluation committees will decide who gets on the ballot in judicial reforms that make federal judges stand for election next year. Activists worry that the same kind of favoritism will come into play in the election of judges.  "This decision comes after a selection process in which she (Piedra) wasn't found to be the most qualified," a coalition of rights groups said in a statement. "That reveals the political, partisan considerations that put her onto the ballot."  She also apparently falsified a letter of recommendation; a bishop and human rights activist said a letter she presented to support her reelection had not been signed by him.  Piedra will serve under new President Claudia Sheinbaum, another devoted follower of Lopez Obrador, who took office October 1. On Sheinbaum's first day in office, the army killed six migrants near the Guatemalan border; 10 days later, soldiers and National Guard killed three bystanders in the northern border city of Nuevo Laredo while chasing suspects.  Sheinbaum's third week in office was capped by the killing of a crusading Catholic priest who had been threatened by gangs, and a lopsided encounter in northern Sinaloa state in which soldiers killed 19 drug cartel suspects, but suffered not a scratch themselves. That awakened memories of past human rights abuses, like a 2014 incident in which soldiers killed about a dozen cartel suspects after they had surrendered.  The purportedly leftist government has been quick to criticize human rights groups and activists who expose abuses.  In June, an outspoken volunteer advocate for missing people found an apparent body dumping ground with human remains in Mexico City, embarrassing ruling party officials who had done little to look for such clandestine grave sites. City prosecutors lashed out at her, claiming "the chain of custody" of the evidence had been manipulated, which could lead to charges. 




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Two Al-Shabab Suspects Arrested for Mogadishu Businessmen Killings, Third Still Sought

[Shabelle] Mogadishu, Somalia -- The National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) said it has made a significant breakthrough in the investigation into the murder of three businessmen in Mogadishu's Darusalam neighborhood last month.




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Cyprus Business Now: crypto asset providers, CIFA president, energy tech firm

The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) on Wednesday announced that Crypto-Asset Service Providers (CASPs) in Cyprus can now apply for a preliminary assessment under the EU’s Markets in Crypto-assets Regulation (MiCAR). This aims to ensure a smooth transition ahead of the regulation’s full implementation on December 30, 2024. The commission explained that “the decision […]




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Archbishop of Canterbury’s resignation ‘won’t fix the problem’, says Bishop of Dover on church abuse scandal

We spoke to the Bishop of Dover, Rose Hudson-Wilkin from Canterbury.




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Archbishop of Canterbury resigns after church abuse scandal

Justin Welby hasn’t said when he’ll go. But replacing him won’t be easy. Victims of decades of church abuse are calling for root and branch reform.





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Church of England faces pressure over abuse scandal after Archbishop quits

LONDON — The Church of England faced pressure on Wednesday (Nov 13) to ensure people are held to account for systematically covering up allegations of abuse, one day after the Archbishop of Canterbury resigned over a church abuse scandal. Justin Welby quit on Tuesday as spiritual leader of the global Anglican Church, saying he had failed to ensure a proper investigation into allegations of abuse by a volunteer at Christian summer camps decades ago. Welby resigned after coming under pressure over a report that found failings in the handling of the case of John Smyth, a barrister who abused at least 115 children and young men before his death. The report has increased pressure on others to be held accountable for safeguarding failures. "We... know that some people pretty systematically covered this up, and that those people do need to be brought to account," Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell, the second-most senior bishop in the Church of England, told BBC Radio. Cottrell said there were lessons to be learned from the review, but that he was not referring to bishops.




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Over half of general election candidates faced abuse

The Electoral Commission has called for action to tackle abuse of candidates during elections.




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Unpacking Data Migration: A Key to Business Continuity and Growth

Saravana Kumar Nanjappan highlights that effective data migration is an invaluable asset to organizations undergoing digital transformation, enabling them to harness data's potential fully.






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Businesses Are Reviving This 1800s Holiday Tradition With a 'Surprise and Delight' Factor That Drives Sales — Here's How One Buzzy Brand Is Making It Work

Brands like Straightaway Cocktails are putting their own spin on a practice you might remember from childhood.




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This Strategy is the Key to Scaling Your Business — and Reducing Costs Along the Way

Scaling a business meaningfully and sustainably can be challenging and requires more than ambition. Offshore staffing enables the flexibility and efficiency needed to thrive in today's fast-paced market.




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SEO Essentials for Businesses — 4 Key Tips for Driving Visibility and Growth

Want to attract and convert more customers? Here's what you need to know.




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Why Your Small Business Growth Stalled — And How to Kickstart It Again

It's possible to scale sustainably even in uncertain times.




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Entrepreneurs in Salem undergo training in business and financial excellence




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EU, Belgium, Denmark and Germany envoys visit Adani's Khavda, Mundra businesses, Gautam Adani says It was a privilege




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Andhra Pradesh High Court strikes down PIL seeking to restrain police from taking action on ‘abusive content on social media’




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Watch | War over Waqf: Busting myth and misinformation

How did an incident in a small village in Vijayapura snowball into an issue of national interest?




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667 UK-owned businesses in India generated over ₹5 lakh crores in revenue: report

According to the report, fifteen UK companies have achieved triple-digit turnover growth rates, with Vedanta leading as the largest UK company in India by revenue, generating over ₹1,50,100 crores in 2023




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MobiKwik sees no business impact due to RBI’s P2P diktat, Co-Founder Taku says

Revenue likely to grow over 50 per cent for many years, Taku says




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Watch: Can Trump’s win make it worse for Indian economy? | Business Matters

Private investment hasn’t really taken off as expected and industry watchers ascribed that to lack of adequate demand. With Trump slated to be next in the White House, how dark do things really look for India?