Here’s a quick summary of what has happened around the world over the last 24 hours, brought to you exclusively by British Herald.
In good-ish local news, the British Foreign Office announced that the evacuation flight for British nationals who were on board the Diamond Princess cruise ship took off from Japan.
The coronavirus outbreak rendered 32 British and other European passengers stranded in Japan.
From the royal family (or not quite, not for much longer), Prince Harry and his wife Meghan have decided not to use the word “royal” in their branding like the SussexRoyal, which they got trademarked not so long ago. Also, a yellow, U.S.-style school bus displaying Prince Andrew’s face and asking him to call the FBI drove past Buckingham Palace on Friday, in a move designed to press him to help authorities investigating U.S. sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
29-year-old Daniel Horton was charged by the British police with section 18 GBH and for possession of a bladed article for the stabbing of a prayer leader in the mosque. A woman had been scoped out of London’s St Paul’s cathedral as a possible bomb target has pleaded guilty on two terrorism offences. 36-year-old Saffiya Shaikh from Hayes, west London has been remanded in custody before sentencing at Old Bailey on May 11th. Last October, Shaikh was charged with preparing acts of terrorism like making contact with someone who could aid her in preparing explosives and conducting reconnaissance staying in a hotel.
The global dirty money watchdog placed Iran on its blacklist after it failed to comply with international anti-terrorism financing norms, a move that will deepen the country’s isolation from financial markets.
The decision came after more than three years of warnings from the Paris-based Financial Action Taskforce (FATF) urging the Islamic Republic to either enact terrorist financing conventions or see its reprieve from the blacklist lifted and some counter-measures imposed.
“Given Iran’s failure to enact the Palermo and Terrorist Financing Conventions in line with the FATF Standards, the FATF fully lifts the suspension of counter-measures and calls on its members and urges all jurisdictions to apply effective counter-measures,” the group’s 39 members said in a statement after a week-long plenary session.
These would entail more scrutiny of transactions with Iran, tougher external auditing of financing firms operating in the country and extra pressure on the few foreign banks and businesses still dealing with Iran.
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