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Senegal
Les bonnes affaires des vendeurs de fournitures scolaires à Keur Massar
Dakar, 25 oct (APS) - Plus de deux semaines après la rentrée des classes, les lieux de vente des fournitures et autres manuels scolaires continuent d'attirer des clients, au bonheur des vendeurs, à l'image de Jean Paul Coly, gérant d'une papeterie à Keur Massar, dans la banlieue de Dakar. Dakar, ...
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Nigeria
NLC Intervenes In NHIS Crisis
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has intervened in the crisis rocking the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) by calling on its Executive Secretary Prof. Usman Yusuf, to vacate office and allow a full-scale investigation be conducted into the allegations levied against him. Mr Abubakar Shanabo, a representative of the NLC ...
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Turchia
Turkey, Germany vow to boost bilateral economic, trade ties
Turkey and Germany are determined to improve bilateral relations, ministers from the two countries said on Oct. 25.
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Turchia Austria
Saudi Arabia still has questions to answer over Khashoggi: Turkish FM
Suspects in the murder of Khashoggi should be held trial in Turkey according to the Vienna Convention, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on Oct. 25.
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Giappone
Dollar closes at ¥112.30 after Tokyo stock slump
The dollar stayed on a weak note around ¥112.30 in late Tokyo trading Thursday after falling below ¥112 on sales reflecting a Tokyo stock slump.At ...
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Australia
Clever reforms 30 years ago helped Australia’s growth
“WE WILL JUST end up being a third-rate economy…a banana republic,” warned Paul Keating in 1986. He used such threats to persuade the country to accept a series of radical economic reforms over the next decade, when he was treasurer (finance minister) and then prime minister. Along with his predecessor ...
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Australia
Diversity helped Australia weather the resources bust
TOWNSVILLE, A COASTAL city of 200,000 in the state of Queensland, owes its existence to commodities. The local agent for a Sydney merchant named Robert Towns founded it in 1864 to make it easier to export cattle from his employer’s huge inland ranches (or stations, in Australian parlance). The discovery ...
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Australia Kuwait
Australia’s economy is still booming, but politics is a cause for concern
THE LAST time Australia suffered a recession, the Soviet Union still existed and the internet did not. An American-led force had just liberated Kuwait, and almost half the world’s current population had not yet been born. Unlike most of its region, Australia was left unscathed by the Asian crash of ...
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Brasile
Índice de Confiança do Comércio cresce 3,8 pontos
O Índice de Confiança do Comércio, medido pela Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV), avançou 3,8 pontos de setembro para outubro. Com a alta, o indicador chegou a 92,5 pontos, em uma escala de zero a 200 pontos. A alta da confiança atingiu empresários de 11 dos 13 segmentos do comércio e foi ...
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Brasile
TCU autoriza publicação de edital para concessão de 12 aeroportos
O Tribunal de Contas da União (TCU) autorizou hoje (24) a publicação de edital para a concessão de 12 aeroportos administrados pela Infraero. A corte determinou alguns ajustes na modelagem do processo, antes da publicação do edital. Entre as alterações propostas, está a correção de inconsistências nos estudos de engenharia e ...