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Brasile India USA Argentina
Mexico to Import Oxford/AstraZeneca Vaccine From India, President Says
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Mexico plans to import about 870,000 doses of Oxford/AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine from India in February, as well as producing it locally, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Friday, January 29th. Mexico and Argentina have a deal with AstraZeneca to produce its vaccine for distribution ...
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Brasile
France Rejects MERCOSUR Agreement without Anti-Deforestation Guarantee – Minister
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The French government will not endorse the association agreement between the European Union and MERCOSUR unless it includes guarantees that increased trade will not result in increased deforestation, French Trade Minister Franck Riester said on Friday, January 29th. The statement came the same week that the ...
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Brasile
Opinion: How Open Banking Will Redefine Brazil’s Financial Ecosystem
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - With the first stage of the Open Banking implementation scheduled for February 1st, a process promoting the right of customers to share their own financial information will be initiated in banks. This will bring about a crucial change in how banks structure their business and ...
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Brasile USA
Analysis: New Lost Decade? Pandemic Exposes Brazil’s Old Shortcomings
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - How to picture the post-Pandemic world, not in terms of the damage done, but with an eye to the future? And what would be Brazil's position in this scenario? With this challenge in mind, Columbia University in New York convened more than a dozen panelists ...
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Brasile
Brazil Unlikely to See Major Truckers Strike, Union Official Says
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Brazilian truckers remain split over the merits of a nationwide strike on February 1st due to rising diesel prices, a senior truck union leader told Reuters on Friday, January 29th, predicting there would not be a major stoppage. A nationwide walkout would be a hammer ...
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USA Emirati Arabi Uniti
USA lassen arabische Partner zappeln
US-Präsident Biden und Außenminister Blinken unterziehen eine Reihe von Entscheidungen der Trump-Regierung einer Prüfung. Dazu gehören auch Waffengeschäfte mit Riad und Abu Dhabi
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Messico
Economía de México se contrajo 8.5%
La economía de México, la segunda más grande de América Latina, se contrajo un 8.5% en todo el 2020, golpeada por la pandemia de coronavirus, según cifras preliminares divulgadas ayer por el instituto de estadísticas, INEGI.
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Nigeria
FAME Foundation: Minister Lauds ‘PLAY it DREAM it’ Boot Camp For IDP Girls
By Salifu Usman, Abuja A Non-Government Organization (NGO), FAME Foundation, has advanced philanthropic efforts with the launching of ‘PLAY it DREAM it boot camp for Internally Displaced Girls’, a new initiative aimed at using sports as a tool to help girl child access quality education and resources to achieve their ...
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Nigeria
Nigeria, Imperiled Democracy And Insecurity
By Simon Reef Musa Since the issuance of a 7-day ultimatum by the Ondo State Governor Rotimi Akeredolu on January 18, 2021 to criminal herders occupying forest reserves to either vamoose or face the full wrath of the law, the country before now had been on tenterhooks. More frightening, the ...
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USA Nigeria
FG Considers Another Lockdown In Abuja, Lagos, Plateau
BY PATIENCE IVIE IHEJIRIKA, Abuja The federal government hinted yesterday that it was considering targeted lockdown in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) as well as Lagos and Plateau States. National Incident Manager of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19, Mukhtar Muhammed, who stated while speaking on Channels Television’s ...