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USA Kenya
World vasectomy day promotes quick, safe and reversible birth control method
Today marks the first time the World Vasectomy Day is being held in Kenya, highlighting a subject rarely discussed especially among men. In any relationship, there comes a time when a couple decides to talk about family planning. Such conversations are usually held if a couple wants to space their ...
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Nigeria
Nigeria: Total Makes U.S.$10 Billion Investments in Nigeria in 5 Years
[Premium Times] The Managing Director, Total Exploration and Production Nigeria Limited, Nicolas Terraz, on Thursday said the company has made over $10 billion investments in the country in the last five years.
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Nigeria
Nigeria: Consortium, NIPC Partner On U.S.$600 Million Renewable Energy Investment
[Daily Trust] A new investment partnership on renewable energy, specifically solar as an alternative power source, is set to revolutionise the power sector with Nigeria as a hub.
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Portogallo
Portugal abre portas ao festival NewCo
Parceria entre empresário dinamarquês, Nova SBE, Imatch Creative Collaboration e a MINI Portugal traz, pela primeira vez, a Portugal, o festival NewCo. O objetivo é destacar toda uma nova geração de empresas.
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Malta
iSurvey: Half of respondents give 2017 Budget thumbs-up
Half of respondents, 50.3%, have given the 2017 budget the thumbs up, the November edition of the iSurvey commissioned by The Malta Independent has shown. Respondents then awarded the second highest proportion of responses to ‘ineffective’, at 25.9%.Respondents were asked: How would you rate the budget? Overall, 50.3% said it ...
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Regno Unito
Dying UK girl convinces judge to let her body be frozen 'until cure for cancer is found'
The teenage girl's instructions were direct: She didn't want to be buried, but to be frozen - with the hope she can continue her life in the future when cancer is cured."I want to live and live longer and I think that in the future they may find a cure ...
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Malta
INDEPTH: Nursery compensation fees to be removed within one or two years – MFA general secretary
Compensation fees demanded by football nurseries when children move in between clubs will be eliminated within one or two years, outgoing Malta Football Association general secretary Bjorn Vassallo believes.Interviewed by Online editor Stephen Calleja on INDEPTH, The Malta Independent's online programme, Mr Vassallo said that in the meantime certain measures ...
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Malta
Editorial: Malta has more children at risk of poverty than EU average
Around 21,000 Maltese children are estimated to be at risk of poverty.This amounts to 28.2 per cent of the total population.The figures refer to 2015 and are worse than the figures in 2010 when children at risk constituted 26.7 per cent of the total population.On a scale, the Maltese children ...
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Malta
Updated: Hunters accuse BirdLife, CABS of intercepting mobile calls; BirdLife, CABS deny
The hunters’ federation is accusing BirdLife and the Committee Against Birds Slaughter of intercepting phone calls made by hunters, a claim that BirdLife and CABS both deny.In a statement, the hunters’ federation (FKNK) said that BirdLife Malta, perhaps together with their German based partners CABS (Committee Against Birds' Murder), “are ...
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USA Bulgaria Malta
Bulgarian President on state visit to Malta: talks centre on improving trade relations
President of Malta, Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca, received President of Bulgaria, Rosen Plevneliev, at The Palace in Valletta at the beginning of President Plevneliev’s State Visit to Malta.Following an exchange of gifts and decorations, both Presidents held bilateral talks together with their respective delegations.The topics covered during the meeting circled around ...