Monthly Archives: June 2020

The electronic card scandal casts a shadow on governance

The Wirecard logo is seen at the headquarters of the payment company in Aschheim, near Munich, southern Germany, on June 24, 2020. Christof Stache | AFP via Getty Images Wirecard’s dramatic fall from grace has put corporate governance and industry regulation in Germany firmly in the spotlight. The Munich-based payment …

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Trump denies reports that Russia paid the Taliban to kill US troops

TOPLINE President Trump went to Twitter early Sunday morning to break his silence on Friday’s bomb report in the New York Times A Russian military intelligence unit offered rewards to militants in Afghanistan for killing US soldiers, even when Democrats harshly criticized the Trump administration for failing to respond. WASHINGTON, …

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Neptune rains diamonds, and now we can finally know how

Deep in the hearts of Neptune and Uranus, it could be raining diamonds. Now scientists have produced new experimental tests that show how this could be possible. The hypothesis is that the intense heat and pressure thousands of kilometers below the surface of these ice giants should separate the hydrocarbon …

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