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USA
Six Maltese language associations happy with new amendments to Maltese Language law
Six Maltese Language institutions and associations said they are happy that the new amendments, unanimously approved by Parliament, were arrived at following a long meeting organised by the Minister for Education over the Christmas holidays."We are convinced that the amendments as approved will strengthen the National Council for the Maltese Language ...
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Regno Unito
UK lawmakers support bill to trigger EU exit talks
Britain moved closer to leaving the European Union Wednesday as lawmakers backed a bill authorizing divorce proceedings and kept alive the government's plan to trigger Brexit talks within weeks.The House of Commons decisively backed the bill by 498 votes to 114, sending it on for committee scrutiny. The result was ...
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USA Regno Unito
Updated: UK Brexit plan seeks close EU ties, but details still short
Britain is leaving the European Union's single market but wants a "frictionless" new trade relationship with the bloc, the government said Thursday in the most detailed account yet of its EU exit plans.In a bid to ease uncertainty around the U.K.'s exit from the European Union — and appease opposition ...
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USA Kenya
Die cast as Kikuyu elders lay curses on S.K. Macharia over betrayal
About 100 Kikuyu elders gathered in Ndakaini village on Tuesday to place a curse on S.K. Macharia, saying he had betrayed his community. The elders from across the country performed rituals including slaughtering a single-coloured he-goat and roasting it, during their meeting in Gatanga constituency, Murang'a county. They muttered curses ...
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Kenya
Business: Nyatike MP Omondi Anyanga accuses Treasury of under-funding Konza
The Government has been challenged to offer incentives to make the Sh1.48 trillion technology hub, Konza City, attractive to local investors. Nyatike MP Omondi Anyanga said the Jubilee government should be worried that the mega project, envisioned to be Kenya's Silicon Savannah, has so far attracted only foreigners and multinationals.
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Kenya
Business: ICDC to finance purchase of units in Sh650m Mombasa project
The Industrial and Commercial Development Corporation has entered Kenya's property market with a Sh650 million project at the Coast.
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Kenya
Business News: ICDC to finance purchase of units in Sh650m Mombasa project
The Industrial and Commercial Development Corporation has entered Kenya's property market with a Sh650 million project at the Coast.
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USA
Business: Younger Americans embrace value of unbiased financial advice
Newly empowered Republicans in Washington are not retreating from their battle to overturn a new regulation that protects retirement savers from conflicted investment advice. But for the public, the battle is winding down - and the regulators are winning.
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USA Giappone
Japanese professor wins British engineering prize for new photodiode
A Japanese professor was among four researchers Wednesday to receive the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering for his contribution to the development of digital imaging sensors. Nobukazu Teranishi, professor at Shizuoka University and the University of Hyogo, shares the £1 million prize with Eric Fossum and George Smith from the ...
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Giappone
Bat-like drone could be better at getting into disaster sites
Holy drone, Batman! Mechanical masterminds have spawned the Bat Bot, a soaring, sweeping and diving robot that may eventually fly circles around other drones. Because it mimics the unique and more flexible way bats fly, this 3-ounce (85-gram) prototype could do a better and safer job getting into disaster sites ...