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Global yet local bank has suffered multiple regulator fines but no one in management has taken responsibility

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Cosmin Olaroiu guided Sharjah to the AFC Champions League Final Two title on Sunday. Khushnum Bhandari / The National

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Kashmiri women grieve inside their house damaged after cross-border shelling from Pakistan, at Salamabad village in Uri, north of Srinagar. EPA

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