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Regno Unito
UK property panic a red flag for banks, insurers
If Britain’s vote to leave the EU leads to a slowdown in business investment and depresses demand for offices and shopping centers, British banks and insurers may face a large risk
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USA Kenya Etiopia
Muted cheers mark South Sudan’s fifth birthday, with millions displaced
Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees Country: Kenya, South SudanSouth Sudan has spent much of its short life at war with itself. Some 2.4 million people fled their homes in fear, before an August 2015 peace deal ended the major offensives.Some are going home, but over 2.4 million South Sudanese will ...
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Serbia
UN warns of worsening situation for refugees at Serbia-Hungary border
Source: UN Country Team in Serbia Country: Hungary, Serbia, WorldAgencies note that increased restrictive measures that ignore proper asylum procedures could encourage refugees to seek more dangerous routes into Europe, exposing them to smugglers.Belgrade, 08 July 2016 - UN Agencies in Serbia express their concern over a further deterioration of the ...
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Russia
Russian Car Sales Decrease 14.1% in 2016
Sales of new passenger cars in Russia have fallen by 14.1 percent in the first six months of this year, compared to the same period last year.
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Bolivia Panama
The neglect of agricultural sector impacts exports
Before the recent signing of the partial trade agreement with Trinidad and Tobago Panama, local exporters say that the country has enough foreign market opportunities, so they are asking the authorities to focus more on improving the productive sectors.
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Giappone
Japan corporate bankruptcies for January-June lowest since 1990
The number of corporate bankruptcies in Japan and total liabilities left by failed firms hit their lowest level for a first-half year since 1990 during the nation’s bubble economy, Tokyo Shoko Research Ltd. said Friday. The number of failed firms dropped 6.5 percent from the previous year to 4,273, while ...
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Giappone Regno Unito
Yamagata brewer Dewazakura wins top sake prize at London wine competition
Dewazakura Dewanosato, a sake from Yamagata Prefecture, took the top prize in its category Thursday at the International Wine Challenge, one of the world’s largest wine competitions, in London. This is the second time Dewazakura Sake Brewery Co., based in Tendo, has won the IWC Champion Sake award since winning ...
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Giappone
Three ex-Toshiba heads likely to escape charges over accounting fraud
The Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office’s special investigation unit believes it will be difficult to charge three former presidents of electronics and machinery giant Toshiba Corp. over the firm’s high-profile accounting scandal, sources said Friday. The unit informed the Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission of its view, according to the ...
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Giappone
Government, BOJ reaffirm continued cooperation to stabilize financial markets
The government and the Bank of Japan reaffirmed Friday that they will continue to work closely to stabilize financial markets, following Britain’s decision last month to leave the European Union. “Financial markets seem to have yet to fully regain stability,” Vice Finance Minister for International Affairs Masatsugu Asakawa told reporters ...
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USA Giappone
Japan-U.S. research team develops toxic gas sensor that can connect to smartphones
Groups of researchers in Japan and the U.S. have jointly developed a material — a coated carbon nanotube — that could realize a low-cost, easy-to-carry toxic gas sensor that works with smartphones. The researchers at the National Institute for Material Science (NIMS) in Ibaraki Prefecture and the Massachusetts Institute of ...