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Giappone Iran
Inpex eyes bid for Iran’s Azadegan oil project
Japan’s Inpex Corp. might participate in a tender to develop the Azadegan oil field in southwestern Iran and form a consortium with other foreign oil ...
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USA
U.S. talks tough on trade deficit as talks on NAFTA revisions begin
The United States drew a hard line for renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement on Wednesday, demanding major concessions aimed at slashing trade deficits ...
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Giappone
Japan logs July trade surplus of ¥418.8 billion
Japan’s goods trade surplus came to ¥418.77 billion ($3.8 billion) in July thanks to solid growth in exports, but narrowed from a year ago on ...
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Portogallo
Incêndios mais preocupantes são em Castelo Branco, Santarém e Viseu
A Proteção Civil fez o primeiro briefing desta quinta-feira em matéria de fogos florestais. De acordo com Patrícia Gaspar, durante o dia de ontem, registaram-se 176 ocorrências de incêndios florestais.
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USA
Fact Check: Does Amazon Pay Taxes? Contrary to Trump Tweet, Yes
President Trump wrongly suggested, again, that Amazon does not pay taxes. The company paid $412 million last year and collects sales taxes in all states that levy them.
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Nigeria
Why public officials send children abroad –Senate panel chair
The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Tertiary Institutions and TETFund, Senator Jibrin Barau, has dismissed the call by Nigerians that children of public officials should be restricted to the country’s public schools. The lawmaker said Nigeria needed to have socio-cultural exchanges with other countries. According to Barau, any law that ...
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Nigeria
FG to diversify economy with $41bn railway investment
Lekan Adetayo and Stanley Opara The Federal Government has started a $41bn railway expansion to reduce dependence on oil and diversify the economy, the Minister of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, has said. “The plan we have now will go to every nook and corner,” Amaechi said on Wednesday in an ...
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Nigeria
‘High duty taking medicine away from reach of poor’
Eric Dumo The high cost of duty paid on imported pharmaceutical products has been identified as a major factor making access to basic medicines difficult for Nigerians. Speaking during a visit by members of the Association of Hospital and Administrative Pharmacists of Nigeria to the office of World Wide Commercial ...
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Nigeria
Sounding the death knell (1)
It has become fashionable – and indeed a status symbol – to post pictures of Nigerians graduating from foreign universities. A close look at the surnames of the graduates says one thing: they’re mainly the children of the elites. Even in the posting of such pictures, attention are often paid ...
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Nigeria
Tears, tributes for hotel fire victim
Atmosphere of sorrow enveloped the Department of Mass Communication of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) on Monday, as students, lecturers and non-academic staff held candlelight procession for a 200-Level student, Roli Odogwu, who died in a hotel fire, last week. The late Roli and her friend, Linda Elegeonye, a 300-Level ...