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The Liberia Revenue Authority (LRA), through its Management Information Systems (MIS) Division, has commenced a nationwide refresher training for staff assigned at Tax Business Offices (TBOs). The training is designed to strengthen the capacity of frontline staff on the use of the Liberia Integrated Tax Administration System (LITAS), which has been enhanced with mobile tax payment features. The exercise, which began at the Marshall TBO on Thursday (August 21) in Margibi, is taking participants through practical processes in filing, assessments, payments, in-field collections, taxpayer online filing, and the reconciliation of revenue collections with the banks. The initiative, supported through the…

  Uganda Reaches Controversial Resettlement Deal With U.S. Uganda reached an agreement with the U.S. to take in deportees from third countries who may not get asylum but are “reluctant” to go back to their own countries. Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Vincent Bagiire Waiswa, said that the country will not accept people with criminal records or unaccompanied minors under the temporary arrangement. Uganda already hosts nearly two million refugees and asylum-seekers, mostly from nearby countries such as the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan, and Sudan. The agreements are part of the Trump administration’s wider push for deportation deals with countries…

Tommy Fleetwood insisted he is ready to write a fresh chapter of golfing success after ending his wait for a victory in the United States after 11 years.Fleetwood’s three-stroke win at the Tour Championship in Atlanta came in his 164th start on the PGA Tour. While determined to enjoy the moment, the 34-year-old from Southport has no plans to rest on his laurels. Fleetwood had been probed time and again about his series of near misses in the US.“The guys that win the most are in contention so much, they’re up there all the time,” Fleetwood said. “That’s where I…

The Nintendo 64 was a fantastic console, home to generation-defining games such as Super Mario 64 and GoldenEye 007. With its four built-in controller ports, it revolutionized multiplayer gaming in front of the TV, and it was the first mainstream console to introduce an analog stick, essential for navigating the burgeoning 3D worlds the medium was starting to deliver.Unfortunately, the controller it did all that with was an abomination, an unholy three-pronged monstrosity that earned my lifelong disdain. Fast-forward roughly three decades, though, and third-party peripheral maker 8BitDo has improved on the original N64 pad in almost every way with…

Ian Wilkinson pays tribute to late wife HeatherWilkinson is delivering his victim impact statement in court.He begins by describing his wife, Heather, who was murdered by Patterson. He says: She was a compassionate, intelligent, brave, witty, simply a delightful person who loved sharing life with others … She was generous in her attitudes and with her resources. If she could help somebody, she would. Wilkinson says Heather had a great sense of humour and it was a “joy” to be her in company.His voice begins to crack as he says the pair shared a close marriage relationship for 44 years.…

Here is how things stand on Monday, August 25:Fighting Russian forces shelled Ukraine’s Donetsk region 23 times in a day, killing one person in Kostiantynivka, Governor Vadym Filashkin said in a post on Telegram on Sunday. Russian forces launched shelling and drone attacks on Ukraine’s Kherson region, killing one person and injuring two others, Governor Oleksandr Prokudin wrote in a post on Telegram on Sunday. A Russian drone attack killed a 47-year-old woman in the Dubovykivska community of Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk, Governor Serhiy Lysak said in a post on Telegram. A woman and an 11-year-old child were killed in a Ukrainian…

Foreign Ministry calls Charles Kushner’s claim that Paris is not doing enough to combat anti-Semitism ‘unacceptable’.France has summoned the US ambassador, Charles Kushner, after he wrote a letter to President Emmanuel Macron alleging that Paris had failed to do enough to stem anti-Semitic violence, a French Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson says.Kushner published the open letter in the Wall Street Journal on Sunday, in which he focused on France’s criticism of Israel – which has been accused by leading rights groups of carrying out a genocide in Gaza – and its plans to recognise a Palestinian state.“Public statements haranguing Israel…

Pintarnya, an Indonesian employment platform that goes beyond job matching by offering financial services along with full-time and side-gig opportunities, said it has raised a $16.7 million Series A round. The funding was led by Square Peg with participation from existing investors Vertex Venture Southeast Asia & India and East Ventures. Ghirish Pokardas, Nelly Nurmalasari, and Henry Hendrawan founded Pintarnya in 2022 to tackle two of the biggest challenges Indonesians face daily: earning enough and borrowing responsibly. “Traditionally, mass workers in Indonesia find jobs offline through job fairs or word of mouth, with employers buried in paper applications and candidates…

MOHAMMED BADRA/EPA/ShutterstockFrance says it will summon the US ambassador to Paris, Charles Kushner, over what it says are unacceptable allegations of failing to tackle a surge in antisemitism. Kushner, who is Jewish and whose son is married to US President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka, made the comments in an open letter to French President Emmanuel Macron in the Wall Street Journal. Echoing Israel’s criticism of France days earlier, Kushner said there had been an explosion of hatred towards Jews in France since the war in Gaza began.”France firmly refutes these latest allegations” which are “unacceptable”, said a foreign ministry statement,…

Marcus Brown is a diehard romantic. His second album as Nourished By Time might be darker and more dystopian than his critically acclaimed debut, but at its core remains a bloody, beating heart. Absorbing and cinematic, The Passionate Ones expands Brown’s unique vision for post-R&B: his aching, tremulous, earthy vocals swim under rolling Baltimore club breakbeats, flickering synths, gated reverb and uncanny looping samples. And all the while, he makes a plea for big feelings in the face of a numbing world.Nourished By Time: The Passionate OnesBlaring as if from a busted speaker, opening track Automatic Love transforms boyband-y platitudes…