From: Ethical Alliance Daily News - 6 July 2016

United States: U.S. imposes sanctions on 3 N.K. entities, 1 individual for involvement in weapons proliferation
Jul 06, 2016 08:00 pm

The United States has imposed sanctions on three North Korean entities and one trading firm official for their involvement in the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, the State Department said Monday. The North’s General Department of Military Cooperation, the […]
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Iraq: Iraq PM orders removal of British-made fake bomb detectors
Jul 06, 2016 07:30 pm

For the past nine years, Iraq’s security forces have tried to stop car bombs with a British-made bomb detector wand that was long ago proven to be fake. A day after a car bomb killed at least 157 people in […]
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China: Economic slowdown and anti-corruption: two reasons to stay away from software stocks
Jul 06, 2016 07:00 pm

China’s once high-flying software sector continues to suffer from the country’s prolonged economic slowdown and the government’s extensive crackdown on corruption, and analysts are now warning those two pressures combined could be about to result in a sharp correction in […]
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Italy: Two dozen arrested in graft probe
Jul 06, 2016 06:30 pm

Finance police on Monday executed warrants issued by a Rome court to arrest two dozen people in relation to a probe into alleged tax fraud, corruption and money laundering, among other crimes, ANSA sources said. Antonio Marotta, an MP for […]
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Cambodia: Former Official Graft Trial
Jul 06, 2016 06:00 pm

A former bureau chief at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was tried on corruption charges by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday. Ear Se, 42, the former Australian bureau chief of the ministry’s Asian department 2, was accused of demanding […]
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Macedonia: EU prepares first round of sanctions against Macedonia
Jul 06, 2016 05:30 pm

The European Commission has reportedly prepared a first round of sanctions against Macedonia due to the unresolved political crisis in the country. The crisis, which started in 2015 when wiretapped conversations incriminating top politicians were leaked, deepened in April when President Gjorge […]
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