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Giappone Corea del Sud
Tokyo and Seoul give dueling accounts of talks amid export row
South Korean officials say they asked Japan to lift strict controls on high-tech exports, rejecting claims by Tokyo that no such demand was made.
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Brasile
Students Block Main Traffic Artery in Brasília in Protest Against Welfare Reform
BRASÍLIA, BRAZIL – Students blocked the Esplanada dos Ministérios, in Brasília, on Friday morning, July 12th, in protest against the Social Welfare reform. The demonstration, called by the National Students Union (UNE) and trade unions, eventually closed all lanes of the S1 highway, near the Rodoviária do Plano Piloto. At ...
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Brasile USA
Coffee Producers Discuss Global Fund to Finance Poor Farmers
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – The solution to low coffee prices on global markets may be the creation of a fund which would invest US$10 billion per year in poorer coffee communities, helping increase efficiency and productivity and improve health care and basic social services, said Jeffrey Sachs this week in ...
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Brasile
New Lava Jato Leaks Show How Dallagnol Manipulated Hesitating Judge to get him Back in Line
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – New Telegram messages involving prosecutor Deltan Dallagnol and other members of Lava Jato were released today by Veja magazine in partnership with The Intercept Brasil website. In one of the messages, the coordinator of the task force of the MPF (Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office) says ...
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Brasile
Vote on Welfare Reform in Brazil’s Lower House Likely to be Postponed to August
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – (Reuters) Brazil’s lower house of Congress may not vote on a landmark pension reform bill until August, leaders said on Friday, as intense negotiation over amendments delayed the process and reduced savings derived from the overhaul. The government’s Pension and Labor Secretary Rogerio Marinho said ...
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Brasile USA
Harley-Davidson Plans to Release an Electric Motorcycle in Brazil in 2020
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The famous sound of Harley-Davidson bikes will change from next month when the first electric model in its history, the LiveWire, will start to be sold in the United States. Brazil could be a future destination. “The plan is to release it in Brazil next ...
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Brasile USA
Industrial Production Retreats in Seven States and in Brazil’s Northeast in May
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Industrial production retreated in eight of the fifteen locations surveyed by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), in the transition from April to May of this year, following the 0.2 percent drop in the domestic industry in the period. According to the Monthly ...
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Portogallo
Huawei: “Android é prioridade mas se não tivermos o plano A, teremos o plano B”
A marca lidera o mercado de smartphones em Portugal e nem a “guerra” tecnológica abalou esse estatuto. Quanto ao futuro, a Huawei não exclui a possibilidade de lançar um sistema operativo alternativo ao Android.
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Nigeria
Presidente do BNDES anuncia nova diretoria
O presidente do Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social (BNDES), Gustavo Montezano, disse hoje (12), ao anunciar a nova diretoria do banco, que a atuação da instituição será reforçada como um banco de serviços para o Estado brasileiro, concentrando atividades em projetos de impacto social. Segundo Montezano, a principal mudança ...
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USA
US yield curve steepens by most in three years
With a rate cut coming, investors are more confident the Fed will keep the economy growing