• Kenya

    Kenya: How Mungiki has taken over mines

    The gradual forceful takeover of some of the mines can be traced to as far back as 2010, when, after years of being put on the back foot by the authorities in their major operation zones of Nairobi and parts of central Kenya, a delegation of about a dozen people ...

  • Spagna

    Los científicos marchan en Madrid para exigir inversión y apoyo a la ciencia

    Madrid, 22 abr (EFE).- Bajo el lema "Sin Ciencia No Hay Futuro" varios miles de científicos han marchado este mediodía por la madrileña calle de Alcalá hasta la sede del Ministerio de Hacienda para reclamar un aumento de la inversión en conocimiento en los presupuestos generales, así como apoyo "real" ...

  • Nigeria

    Airtel commences 4G service in Nigeria

    The Managing Director, Airtel Nigeria, Mr. Segun Ogunsanya, said on Saturday that the telecommunications company has rolled out Fourth Generation (4G) wireless mobile telecommunications technology in Nigeria. Ogunsanya said in a statement in Lagos that the roll out of the technology was in partnership with ZTE, a Chinese multinational telecommunications ...

  • Francia

    [BREAKING] Police arrest man with knife in Paris train station

    A man carrying a knife was arrested on Saturday at Paris’s Gare du Nord station, causing brief panic days after the jihadist killing of a policeman, police sources said amid pre-election jitters. “An individual carrying a knife came into the station, was pointed out to a police patrol which immediately ...

  • Brasile

    Centrais sindicais preparam greve geral para próxima sexta-feira

    Centrais sindicais organizam greve geral (ou paralisação nacional) para a próxima sexta-feira, dia 28. Eles dizem que pode ser a maior mobilização de trabalhadores e de diversos setores da sociedade dos últimos 30 anos no Brasil. O protesto contra as reformas da Previdência e trabalhista e a Lei da Terceirização ...

  • Francia

    Plus 1200 exposants au rendez-vous

    Le 20e Salon international du bâtiment, des matériaux de construction et des travaux publics (Batimatec) ouvrira ses portes demain, pour une durée de 4 jours, au Palais des expositions de la Safex, à Alger. C’est le ministre de l’Habitat et du Commerce, Abdelmadjid Tebboun, qui procédera à son inauguration, en ...

  • USA Regno Unito

    Trump 'may seek EU trade pact before UK deal'

    LONDON: The United States could strike a free-trade agreement with the European Union -- ahead of an agreement with a post-Brexit UK -- as President Donald Trump has warmed to the idea of a deal with the bloc, The Times reported on Saturday.

  • Giappone

    Tellmeclub’s bankruptcy grounds discount travel services

    On March 27, discount travel company Tellmeclub filed for bankruptcy while a number of its Japanese customers were still overseas on package tours. Owing to the way its trips are paid for, these tourists still had valid return plane tickets but would have to pay out of pocket for accommodations ...

  • Giappone

    BOJ to hold talks on reducing fiscal 2017 inflation estimate

    The Bank of Japan is expected to discuss next week whether to lower the central bank’s inflation projection for fiscal 2017, following a recent fall in mobile phone costs. The BOJ Policy Board is scheduled to release its quarterly Outlook for Economic Activity and Prices report, including updates to its ...

  • USA Giappone

    Aso wary of inking bilateral trade deal with U.S.

    Finance Minister Taro Aso on Friday sounded a cautious note about the potential benefits of striking a bilateral trade deal with the United States, saying it would not necessarily give Washington better terms than the multilateral Trans-Pacific Partnership accord, from which it recently withdrew. “There is no guarantee that the ...