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Brasile
Adriana Ancelmo pode ficar até 10 dias em casa antes de ir à prisão
A ex-primeira dama do Rio de Janeiro, Andriana Ancelmo, vai aguardar em casa o julgamento do recurso contra a decisão de voltar para a cadeira em Bangu, na Zona Oeste do Estado. O Tribunal Regional Federal da 2ª Região (TRF-2) decidiu, nesta quarta-feira (26/4), revogar a prisão domiciliar da esposa ...
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Brasile
Rio’s Flamengo Has Brazil’s Two Highest Grossing Games of 2017
By Nelson Belen, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – According to the latest sales figures for the sixty Brazilian football (soccer) teams that compete in Series A, B, and C of the Campeonato Brasileiro, Rio’s CR Flamengo has the distinction of having the two highest grossing games of 2017 ...
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Giappone
'Fair trade' in coconut oil changes life on small Indonesian island
KOBE -- A "fair trade" offer by a Japanese woman to buy pure coconut oil from a small Indonesian island has changed the lives of the people there, who previously earned a living blast fishing reefs.
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Giappone
BoJ keeps monetary policy unchanged
TOKYO - Japan's central bank kept its ultra-lax monetary policy unchanged Thursday, forecasting that growth in the world's third-largest economy would remain slow but steady through the fiscal year ending in March 2018.
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Thailandia
Economic growth projected at 3.6% this year
The economy is expected to grow 3.6% this year, up from 3.2% last year, boosted by increased demand for Thai exports and government expenditure, the Finance Ministry said on Thursday.
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Thailandia
SET down 0.93 points at opening
Thai stocks opened down 0.06% at the start of trade this morning.
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Nigeria
PIB: Nigeria loses $235bn investments amid $9bn debt
’Femi Asu Nigeria has lost about $235bn worth of investments on the back of the failure to reform the oil and gas industry, even as the Federal Government struggles to pay up over $9bn cash call arrears to oil firms. Oil workers under the aegis of the Petroleum and Natural ...
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Nigeria
Why we hired foreign PR firm –Adeosun
Ifeanyi Onuba, Abuja The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, on Wednesday denied claims that she hired a foreign public relations firm for the sum of $2m (N800m). An online news portal had reported that she paid the firm, Africa Practice, the sum for media consultancy services. But in a ...
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USA
LG Electronics Q1 net profit more than quadruples
South Korean appliance giant LG Electronics saw net profits more than quadruple in the first quarter of the year, it said Thursday, on the back of strong sales in Asia and Latin America. The firm’s net profit in the January-March period reached 835.7 billion won (US$739.4 million), up 322 percent ...
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Finlandia
Nokia reports another loss
Finland’s telecoms giant Nokia reported Thursday that it remained deep in the red at the start of the year, with sales in its main business, networks, on the decline. The company posted a loss of 488 million euros ($532 million) in the first quarter, an improvement from the 609 million ...