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Giappone
Police encircle, round up North Dakota pipeline protesters
Armed soldiers and law enforcement officers dressed in riot gear on Thursday began arresting protesters who had set up a camp on private land to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline. Several protesters were led away and put in trucks, including at least one handcuffed, as authorities converged ...
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Giappone
Hitachi chief signals partnerships needed to revive reactor business
Hitachi Ltd. President Toshiaki Higashihara said Thursday the company needs to consider joining forces with other players to get its poorly performing nuclear reactor business revived. Hitachi cannot leave its nuclear business floundering, Higashihara told a press conference in Tokyo. “Something like a tie-up with other players should be considered,” ...
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India Giappone
U.S. charges 61 in India-based call center scam that reaped over $300 million
It can be a frightening call to get — and it’s a familiar one for many thousands of Americans. Callers posing as tax and immigration agents are threatening arrest, deportation or other punishment unless money is sent to help clear up what they say is a deportation warrant or to ...
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Giappone
New MacBook Pro debuts with touch screen, fingerprint reader
Apple Inc. unveiled a revamped MacBook Pro on Thursday, adding a fingerprint reader, replacing function keys with a small touch screen and slimming down the workhorse of its computer notebook line. The first redesign in several years is a sign Apple still sees a role for the product that launched ...
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Cina Giappone
Korea, China, Japan to hold trade ministers' talks later this week
Trade ministers of South Korea, China and Japan will have a meeting later this week to exchange views on ways to expand
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Nigeria
Randy Lecturers Risk 5-year Jail Term As Senate Passes Sexual Harrassment Bill
The Senate yesterday unanimously passed the Sexual Harassment in Tertiary Education Institution Bill, 2016 into law. With the passage of the bill by the upper chamber offenders of sexual harassment in tertiary institutions in Nigeria risk five years jail term or an option of a fine of N5million . The ...
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Nigeria
$29.960bn Foreign Loans: FG Budgets $18bn For Power, Railway, Others
If things work out as planned, the next three years will see the federal government of Nigeria spend at least $18bn on infrastructure, particularly Power, Railways and other key projects in the country. Details of information released by the federal ministry of Finance on Thursday revealed that Eurobond issuance in ...
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Kenya
IEBC trying to block new election law, claims Cord
Several lawsuits seek to overturn key provisions of hard-won electoral reforms and threaten to poison the relationship between Cord and the IEBC. This at a time new electoral chiefs have not been recruited and the general election is just 10 months away. The Star has established at least three petitions ...
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Kenya
Business: Auditor: NSSF to lose billions over stalled Hazina Towers
The National Social Security Fund stands to lose billions of shillings over the stalled construction of Hazina Trade Centre in Nairobi, the Auditor General has disclosed. The building currently houses Nakumatt Lifestyle branch.
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Kenya
Business News: Coca-Cola names new General Manager for East Africa
Coca-Cola Southern & East Africa has appointed Ahmed Rady as the new General Manager of the East Africa Franchise, operating out of Nairobi.