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• Singapore haze: PSI stays unhealthy, NEA warns of ‘very unhealthy’ air and hands out N95 masks — The 24-hour PSI hit 118–168 on 14 October as southeasterly winds pushed dense smoke from Kalimantan fires toward the island; free N95 masks
• Indonesia’s karhutla fires: 60,000 personnel and 48 aircraft deployed as haze crosses borders — With forest and land fires burning from South Sumatra to Central Kalimantan, Jakarta tells Malaysia it has mobilised water bombing and cloud
• Sanok hospital hunger strike: seven hours of talks end without a breakthrough — About 50 staff at Sanok’s specialist hospital are on hunger strike demanding the director’s dismissal; with debts over PLN 220 million and p
• Britain wants bank capital buffers you can actually use in a crunch — The PRA clarified it can release O-SII buffers in systemic stress — part of a wider push to make capital usable, not decorative. Digestica t
• Oil slipped toward $87. Hormuz is still jammed. Which price is lying? — Crude fell about 2 percent on a fat U.S. inventory build and weaker demand forecasts — even as Hormuz traffic stays thin. Digestica reads pa
• Strait of Hormuz: When shipping risk stops being theoretical — Tanker markets, war-risk premiums, and rerouting costs — why the Strait of Hormuz still moves prices far beyond the Gulf.
• Economic and Financial Crimes Commission: what the EFCC is — and why it matters now — What Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is, how forfeiture works, and why July 2026’s Emefiele asset ruling and corporate pr
• The Week the World Searched for Answers — A fast, human guide to the questions behind today’s search spikes.
• The Week the World Searched for Answers — A fast, human guide to the questions behind today’s search spikes.
• The Week the World Searched for Answers — A fast, human guide to the questions behind today’s search spikes.