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A post liked more than a thousand times on Threads claims that a video of a large fire in the West Bank was filmed in late April. 

The video, which appears to have been taken at some distance from the fire, shows a huge blaze in the middle of a built-up area.

Posted on 26 April, the caption claims: “Hebron in the West Bank tonight”. It adds, “H@mas are not in the West Bank”, possibly implying the fire was a result of Israeli action following the 7 October attacks on the country by Hamas.

But this video first appeared online two months earlier, and appears to show a fire at a plastics factory in Hebron that broke out on 27 February. 

The post shared on Threads is watermarked with the handle of an Instagram account, which posted the video, alongside several

Prices Tripled in 5 Years: Netizens Shocked by High Cost of Shared Power Banks

Kuai Technology News, February 18th – Are you in the habit of bringing your own power bank when you go out? If so, you may have actually saved a lot of money, according to recent revelations by some netizens.

In a surprising discovery, some netizens have reviewed their past year’s expenses and found that they spent a whopping 1,200 yuan on a shared power bank. This revelation has left many shocked by the high phone bill incurred as a result.

To put the concept of 1,200 yuan into perspective, some netizens compared it to other expenses, such as Bilibili membership fees and video platform fees, and found that the cost of the shared power bank far exceeded these other expenses combined.

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About 4,000 participants – including finance ministers, central bank governors, and government officials from Asian Development Bank member countries – will gather in the Georgian capital city of Tbilisi for the 57th Annual Meeting of the institution next year under the theme “Bridge to the Future”.

Georgian Finance Minister Lasha Khutsishvili told Agenda.ge the occasion would be the “largest event ever organised” in the country, surpassing all previous annual meetings of international financial institutions that have been hosted in Georgia.

The status of the Host Country was formally handed over to Georgia during the 56th ADB Annual Meeting in Incheon, South Korea in May, with Tbilisi set to host the next meeting in May 2024.

The opening day will see a welcome…

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Baltimore fintech company Cerebro Capital is partnering with the Harbor Bank of Maryland to provide $50 million in a dedicated loan program for minority-owned small businesses in the Baltimore region.

Using Cerebro’s digital loan matching platform, Harbor Bank is looking to provide loans as large as $2 million to small businesses that apply through the Cerebro Capital program. Businesses that qualify can expect term sheets within 24 business hours, and other no-cost perks. The benefit of going through Cerebro is to streamline the process and get capital…

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The Regional Sub-Window (RSW) for Refugees and Host Communities was introduced as a dedicated financing instrument to support low-income refugee-hosting countries under the 18th Replenishment of the International Development Association (IDA18), with $2 billion to benefit IDA countries hosting refugees from July 1, 2017, to June 30, 2020. By the end of the replenishment cycle, 14 countries had received funding for relevant projects.i Among these, 9 countries are scaling up refugees’ access to government social protection programs in host countries through 10 projects with an overall budget of $US626 million via the RSW, representing about 31 percent of the total SubWindow budget. Dedicated financing supporting refugee-hosting IDA countries was continued under the 19th…