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USA
Trump picks Wilbur Ross to head Commerce Department
US President-elect Donald Trump picked an investor with such a history of investing in dying industries that he was known as the “king of bankruptcy” to head the Commerce Department. Wilbur Ross, a billionaire known for taking over ailing steel and coal companies and selling them for profit, will help ...
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Nigeria
NDLEA confiscates over 37 tonnes of hard drugs
The National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency, Kano State Command, t confiscated over 37 tonnes of hard drugs between January and November. The State Commandant, Alhaji Hamza Umar, disclosed this during a news conference in Kano. Umar said that the drugs include three tonnes of cannabis sativa and over 34 tonnes ...
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Nigeria
Sign Peace Corps bill, youths beg Buhari
A group of youths under the aegis of National Youth Council of Nigeria on Wednesday in Abuja urged President Muhammadu Buhari to sign the Nigerian Peace Corps Bill into law. The group made the request when they stormed the National Assembly complex to appreciate the lawmakers for passing the Bill. ...
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Qatar USA Etiopia Regno Unito Pakistan
First global fund to finance disaster response before it happens
Source: Start Network Country: WorldAid agencies will be able to secure financial support in anticipation of flooding, a refugee exodus or other foreseeable emergencies from the Start Fund.Aid agencies will be enabled to tackle looming disasters before they have occurred, under a pioneering project being launched today by a fast-growing humanitarian ...
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Turchia
Turkey needs new policies to cope with permanent Syrian refugees
Source: International Crisis Group Country: Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey, WorldThe uncertainties with regard to the Syria war delayed long-term planning by both authorities and Syrians in Turkey. Ankara now needs to assume the permanence of the refugees in order to craft an integration strategy. Turkey is under growing pressure from nearly three ...
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Spagna
Economía.- El gran consumo advierte de que una subida de impuestos implicaría un significante retroceso del consumo
El sector aporta de forma agregada a la economía española un valor añadido de 220.000 millones de euros MADRID, 30 (EUROPA PRESS)
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Spagna
Draghi: Las medidas del BCE son una ventana de oportunidad para los países
Madrid, 30 nov (EFE).- El presidente del Banco Central Europeo (BCE), Mario Draghi, ha defendido hoy en Madrid que las medidas de política monetaria que ha llevado a cabo el organismo suponen una "ventana de oportunidad" para que los países puedan seguir poniendo en marcha reformas estructurales.
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Corea del Sud
Nissan, BMW, Porsche face sales ban in S. Korea
SEOUL - South Korea is to ban sales of some cars made by Porsche, BMW and Nissan, and fine the companies over $5 million as a probe into emissions documentation widens.
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Thailandia
SET opens up 1.76 to 1,498.94
Thai stocks opened up 0.12% at the start of trade this morning.
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Brasile
Lei eleva rodeio e vaquejada à condição de patrimônio cultural do Brasil
O presidente Michel Temer sancionou a Lei 13.364/2016, que eleva o rodeio e a vaquejada - e suas respectivas expressões artístico-culturais - à condição de manifestação cultural nacional e de patrimônio cultural imaterial. De acordo com o texto, consideram-se patrimônio cultural imaterial do Brasil o rodeio, a vaquejada e expressões decorrentes, ...