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The US military saw a 1% increase in sexual assaults last year, according to the Pentagon's latest annual report.There were 7,378 reports of sexual assault against service members in 2022, according to the Fiscal Year 2022 Annual Report on Sexual Assault in the Military, released on Thursday.That is up from 7,260 reports of assault in 2021.

Measuring up The French ministry of the economy, finances and industry building is shown in Paris on Monday, December 9, 2013.Jacques Brinon, AP French economists and public auditors alike breathed a sigh of relief as the national statistics agency INSEE on Tuesday published an annual report showing that the country's 2022 budget deficit dipped below 5% of GDP.

BERLIN Deployment of new wind and solar power plants needs to be drastically ramped up by the end of the decade to meet the world's climate goals, the International Renewable Energy Agency said Tuesday.In an advance preview of its annual report on the global shift from fossil fuels to clean energy, the agency said renewables accounted for 83% of new power generation last year.

Yesterday, Forbes released their annual report on team values and the San Francisco Giants were there in the top five in terms of profitability with $74.9 million and total value at $3.7 billion.That represents a year over year increase of 6%.I'm not going to be able to add much to the discussion that wasn't already covered by people online and in the comments yesterday, but let's discuss it here anyway for posterity!

The fate of Credit Suisse could be decided in the next 36 hours after a torrid week for Switzerland's second biggest bank.Investors and customers pulled their money out of Credit Suisse over the past several days as turmoil swept the global banking industry following the collapse of two US lenders.Shares of the bank lost 25% over the course of the week, despite an emergency $54 billion loan from the Swiss National Bank.

WeWork, the struggling office space company, said on Friday that it had reached a deal with SoftBank and other investors to significantly reduce its debt and secure new financing.The agreement would cancel or convert into equity about $1.5 billion of the company's debt, reducing WeWork's total debt to less than $2.4 billion, the company said.

The Council of Europe's Comittee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) published its annual report on Monday, criticizing member states and particularly those on the EU's external border for "inhuman and degrading treatment" of migrants pushed back from their borders.Foreign nationals were subjected to "punches, slaps blows with truncheons, other hard objects [...] by police or border guards," the CPT said in the report.

A Mississauga landlord says he's fed up with the bureaucratic gridlock that's held up an eviction order for almost six months while his tenant, who owes him about $20,000, lives rent-free in his condo.Joe Roberto says he was told at his Ontario Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB) hearing back in August that he would soon be issued an eviction order, which he could then give to his delinquent tenant.

T he West End has staged a remarkable revival from the ghost town depths of the pandemic with sales now regularly beating pre-Covid levels as tourists flood back, new figures show.Almost exactly a year on from the lifting of the last Covid restrictions, data from the New West End Company (NWEC) which represents hundreds of businesses on Oxford Street, Regent Street and Bond Street as well as in Mayfair reveal how strongly London's shopping and entertainment district has bounced back.

Industrial powerhouse Germany is forecast to eke out growth of 0.2 percent in 2023, the economy ministry said in its latest projections.Back in October, when fears were running high about soaring energy costs in the wake of Russia's war in Ukraine, Berlin was bracing for a contraction of 0.4 percent in 2023.

Tory party chairman Nadhim Zahawi's position is untenable, Labour has said after reports that he paid a penalty as part of a multimillion-pound tax settlement.The former chancellor, who attends Rishi Sunak's Cabinet, has been under pressure since it was reported that he paid HM Revenue & Customs a seven-figure sum to end a dispute.

Your brand has a story: a narrative of who you are, who you serve, what you do, and where you're going.It informs your marketing and sales, communications, and culture.It lives in the hearts and minds of your customers and employees.How you weave the story of your brand requires thoughtful strategy and creativity.

UK-based MIDiA Research released its annual report of global recorded music revenue.The main points:


$31.2-billion total revenue
$20-billion is from streaming music - 64.1% of total revenue
$9.2-billion earned by major label UMG
$10.8-billion revenue for indie labels and Artists Direct distribution
Artists Direct share of total is 5.7%


MIDiA's numbers are broadly similar to the recently reported full-year 2022 revenue report from IFPI (RAIN coverage HERE.)

There are only ten days into March, and volatility in the crypto markets has heightened, with both bitcoin and ethereum falling to two-month lows.A collapse in Silvergate Bank was one of the major catalysts leading to this month's bearish sentiment, which now sees bitcoin trading under $20,000.With over three weeks remaining in March, what could be next?

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Battered shares of Credit Suisse lost more than one-quarter of their value Wednesday, hitting a record low after its biggest shareholder the Saudi National Bank told outlets that it would not inject more money into the ailing Swiss bank.

Cryptocurrency heavyweights including Coinbase Global Inc. and Galaxy Digital on Thursday dropped Silvergate Capital Corp. as their banking partner after the lender's latest filing raised questions about its ability to stay in business.Coinbase and Galaxy Digital also said they had minimal exposure to Silvergate, which has been plunged into a crisis stemming from a bank run after the collapse of major crypto exchange FTX in November spooked investors.

Posters depicting people killed in Ukraine, including American journalist Brent Renaud, line a fence near the White House.(Alex Brandon/AP)Sixty-seven journalists and media staff have been killed so far this year while performing their duties, the Brussels-based International Federation of Journalists said Friday in its annual report documenting reporters' deaths.

The Foreign Office has asked for claims to be examined in a secret court that a British citizen was detained and tortured after the security services passed intelligence to the Indian government, newly filed court papers show.The government department is refusing to confirm or deny claims that Jagtar Singh Johal, a British Sikh activist, was detained in India in 4 November 2017 after an alleged tipoff to the Indian security services.

Seven unions have written to the government demanding immediate action to address the shocking state of school buildings in England, some of which are in danger of collapse.It follows a call from the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) for full disclosure over exactly which school buildings are most at risk, and for urgent intervention to shore up those buildings most likely to structurally fail.

Britain's intelligence agencies have been rebuked for failing to provide information on time to the parliamentary watchdog overseeing their work.The Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC)  made up of senior MPs and peers  said its work has been severely hampered over the past year due to the agencies' failure to meet deadlines for responding to its inquiries.

EFF's 2021 Annual Report is out now! Enjoy highlights of our work during the calendar year, along with a financial report covering our fiscal year of July 2020 - June 2021.EFF leveraged over $15M in public support to defend civil liberties and encourage innovation in the digital world last year.We continued long standing battles against street-level surveillance by companies such as Amazon Ring and technologies like Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs).

Fortinet says it saw an average of 500 million total malware detections per month in 2022, with Microsoft Windows executables as the primary vehicle
MANILA, Philippines - Cybersecurity firm Fortinet, the world's third largest cybersecurity vendor in terms of market share in Q3 2022, revealed in an annual report published in January that attackers focused the most on vulnerabilities related to remote code execution.

T eenage inmates arrive at a London prison with long histories of involvement with social services in a serious indictment of the effectiveness of the care system, a watchdog warned on Thursday.The independent monitoring board for Feltham, which comprises a young offender institution and a young adult prison, says a large proportion of the 15- to 18-year-olds there were either on full care orders or classed as children in need when they entered the prison.

Incidents of sexual assault at US military service academies were at the highest rate on record in the 2021-2022 academic year, according to a new report released on Friday.There was an 18% increase in reported sexual assaults across the three academies in 2021-2022 compared to the the 2017-2018 academic year, according to the Annual Report on Sexual Harassment and Violence at the Military Service Academies.

Tory party chairman Nadhim Zahawi faces fresh questions over his tax affairs after he was accused of paying a penalty as part of a multi-million pound settlement with HMRC.The former Chancellor, who attends Rishi Sunak's cabinet, has been under pressure since it was reported that he paid a seven-figure sum to end a dispute.

By Brian Wheeler and Damian Grammaticas

Former Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi has not denied a report he has agreed to pay millions of pounds in tax to settle a dispute with Revenue and Customs.It comes after the Sun on Sunday claimed Mr Zahawi's representatives would pay a "seven-figure sum" to HMRC.

Rishi Sunak has backed Tory former chancellor Nadhim Zahawi amid allegations he paid millions to settle a dispute over his tax.The Prime Minister defended the Conservative Party chairman, saying he had addressed the matter in full after claims he stumped up a seven-figure sum to settle a dispute with HMRC.

By Tarah Welsh & Liz Jackson

A quarter of Londoners are living in poverty, according to a report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.The charity used government data from 2018 to 2021 to compile its annual report.It found London has the second-highest rate of poverty in England, with almost 2.3m people going without basics like food and toiletries.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - There are more households in Rhode Island that cannot afford adequate food now than before the pandemic, the Rhode Island Community Food Bank said Monday.The food bank released its annual report on hunger to coincide with Thanksgiving week.The food bank report said that food insecurity is now three times more prevalent than before the pandemic, with 31% of Rhode Island households surveyed earlier this year responding that they were unable to afford adequate food, up from 18.4% in 2021, 25.2% in 2020 and 9.1% from 2017 to 2019.

Regina Head usually cooks her Thanksgiving turkey until it's so tender it can melt in your mouth.This year, she's considering deep frying her bird, which she'll serve to her three daughters, who range in age from 8 to 16.
Head is a single mom and came to the food pantry and social services organization Nourishing Hope's food distribution last week in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood to get the items she'll need to make Thanksgiving dinner.

Germany is expected to narrowly avoid a recession this year, the government said on Wednesday, as Europe's biggest economy withstands the aftershock of the Ukraine war better than prior projections had estimated.The country is forecast to obtain economic growth of 0.2% in 2023, the economy ministry shared in its latest projections.

Fighting continued in the eastern Ukrainian town of Soledar on Thursday, with Russian forces using jets and mortars in an unrelenting assault.Russia's Wagner mercenary group claimed to have taken control of Soledar but Ukrainian officials disputed the claim.Ukrainian defense officials acknowledged that troops were facing a difficult battle in the town.

Sexual misconduct allegations mired public schools in Chicago throughout 2022, with more than 25% of the complaints involving allegations of sexual violence, according to a recent local government report.The category of sexual violence received the highest number of complaints in the school system, with the second-highest only making up a little more than 7% of the complaints.

Meta broke up with publishers (again).The New York Times hoped its reporters would get off Twitter (even before Elon Musk bought it).And we found out how much those media jobs pay (at least in New York City).Here are Nieman Lab's most popular articles of 2022.(For a little more about what we, and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, were up to this year, check out our 2022 annual report.)

Barack Obama is getting in on the fun of list season by sharing his favorite songs of 2022.Some one may have taken a peak at our own top songs list (hi, Obama!), as the former president included five of our favorites: SZA's "Shirt," Ethel Cain's "American Teenager," Danger Mouse and Black Thought's "Belize" featuring MF DOOM, Plains' "Problem With It," and Zach Bryan's "Something in the Orange."

The 2022 edition of our Annual Report begins today with our Top 50 Songs list.As the year winds down, stay tuned for more awards, lists, and articles about the best music, film, and TV of 2022.You can find it all in one place here.Things are still far from perfect, but relatively speaking, 2022 was an okay year.