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Halal hunted game meat is becoming more popular as a healthier and premium alternative product in wealthier countries with large Muslim communities.

There are no international standards for halal game, but, according to The New Muslim Guide (https://www.newmuslimguide.com/en/your-food-and-drink/66, written by author Fahd ibn Saalim Baa Hammaam, working with Islamic scholars, “Muslims are permitted to hunt lawful animals and birds which cannot be easily caught and slaughtered”, so long as they are eaten.…

While the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is a shadow of its former self in the Middle East, it has spawned global affiliates and is still very much in business, posing ongoing terrorist financing threats.

At the peak of its power as a self-declared Islamic Caliphate in 2015, ISIS controlled around a third of Syria’s territory and 40%of Iraq, with some 7.7 million people under its rule.…

Switzerland-based multinational mining and energy group Glencore will pay almost USD1.2 billion in fines and penalties to the US, UK and Brazil for corrupt and dishonest trading, including bribing African officials and illicitly manipulating oil market prices.

With prosecutorial investigations continuing in the Netherlands and Switzerland, Glencore said yesterday (Tuesday 24/5) that it would set aside USD1.5 billion to settle all cases relating to this malpractice.…

With financial fraud booming, the market for forensic accounting – uncovering financial crime through the study of accounting data, bank records and associated company data – is also growing fast.

A report from US and UK-based Market Research Future (MRFR) issued last October (2021) predicted that the global forensic accounting market would be worth annual receipts of USD8.85 billion by 2025, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8.2%.…

With the Islamic finance sector growing fast – with global turnover valued at USD2.2 trillion, according to S&P Global Ratings’ Islamic Finance Outlook 2022 Edition, with a projected 12% growth between 2021 and 2022 – demand for higher education courses on the topic are growing fast.…

Crime statistics being released by law enforcement agencies worldwide tell an unhappy story – that online fraud is growing fast.  Action Fraud, the UK’s national reporting centre for fraud and cybercrime, estimates that 80% of reported fraud in the UK in the 2021/2022 reporting year was cyber-enabled (1).…

Universities in Afghanistan, Iraq, Haiti, Madagascar, Nigeria and Yemen have been highlighted as institutions where academics or students were killed because of their beliefs or activism in the past academic year, though a report from campaign group Scholars at Risk (SAR).…

Higher education institutions are being warned they could be a target for money laundering, with fees being financed by the proceeds of crime, including corruption, which might also buy property, cars and other items for students.

The problem has been highlighted in a series of reports.…

Concern is rising about the growth of low quality or even entirely bogus universities and colleges being established in Benin, as students from neighbouring Nigeria look for higher education courses outside their own country.

This demand is being fuelled by a shortage of higher education places in Nigeria, with some unscrupulous Benin-based operators taking advantage of naïve Nigerians in Africa’s most populous country.…

Spain, which in the early Middle Ages was part of Islamic state called Al-Andalus – remembered as a golden age of Spanish tolerance and reason – has finally started to seriously play to win in the global halal market, through tourism and exports.…