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• Paraguay's former president charged after bank collapse
  Source: BBC News - World

  Paraguay’s former president faced charges following a banking collapse that reportedly prevented many people from accessing their funds.

• Critics say Democrats should look into Trump's Middle East deals in future corruption investigations
  Source: Deutsche Welle - English

  After their victory in the US midterm elections, the Democrats have promised to investigate corruption in the Trump administration. Critics say the president's Middle East deals is an area they should focus on.

• Why is Paraguay facing a banking and political crisis?
  Source: Al Jazeera English - News

  Why is Paraguay facing a banking and political crisis? Ueno collapse raises questions about state influence and accountability.

• ANC faces bruising defeat in South African local elections with 80% of ballots counted
  Source: The Guardian - World

  Former liberation movement’s share of national vote almost 14 percentage points below 2021 result The African National Congress is on course to suffer a bruising defeat in South Africa’s local elections, with the once dominant party of Nelson Mandela falling to under a third of the vote nationally with more than 80% of ballots counted. Wednesday’s fragmented vote marks another stage in the decline of the ANC, which has led national governments since the end of white minority apartheid rule in 1994. High unemployment, crime, corruption and poor local service delivery have all contributed to voters turning away from the party . Continue reading...

• California governor commutes sentences for state's 548 death row inmates
  Source: BBC News - World

  California has historically had the largest population of people on death row in the US.

• Food grown in illegal West Bank settlements being sold in Australia as ‘produce of Israel’
  Source: The Guardian - World

  Analysis by human rights organisation Global Echo shows 85 of 132 shipments over eight years contained more than US$5m of organic dates grown in settlements Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Millions of dollars of food grown in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank has been shipped to Australia labelled as “produce of Israel”, a new analysis of trade data has shown. The human rights legal organisation Global Echo has analysed commercial documents and official trade data from the Israeli government and the Australian Bureau of Statistics, showing at least US$5m (A$7.2m) of organic dates grown in illegal settlements across the West Bank have been shipped to Australia over the past eight years. Continue reading...

• ANC faces anger over poor services as South Africans vote in local elections
  Source: The Guardian - World

  Party expected to get less than a third of the vote amid frustration over water outages and power cuts The African National Congress is on course for a bruising result in South Africa’s local elections on Wednesday as voters go to the polls amid deep discontent over water outages, power cuts and crumbling infrastructure.

• US Department of Justice expands its probe into Alaska’s US Senate election
  Source: Al Jazeera English - News
• ANC under pressure to reverse South Africa decline
  Source: BBC News - World
• Texans vote in most expensive Senate race in US history
  Source: Al Jazeera English - News
• Sinkholes, scarred land and scapegoats: the scourge of illegal gold mining in Johannesburg
  Source: The Guardian - World

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