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Etiopia
Ethiopian Police Detain Journalists Reporting On Drought, Escort Them Back to Capital
[CPJ] Ethiopian police On August 8 2016, detained three journalists reporting on the effects of a severe drought in the country before escorting them back to Addis Ababa with a warning not to work outside the capital, the Foreign Correspondents' Association of Ethiopia said in a statement.
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Nigeria
Nigeria: Andrew - to Boost Agriculture in Nigeria, Govt Must Attract Foreign Investments
[This Day] As the Federal Government renews focus on agriculture as a viable alternative to crude oil, international wealth advisor, chairman of the Advisory Board of the African Wealth Report (AWR) and investor, Mr. Olusegun Paul Andrew, in a recent chat with select journalists in Lagos, outlined the huge potential ...
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USA
Wal-Mart alza le stime grazie al fatturato che batte le attese
(Teleborsa) - Vendite che battono le attese per Wal-Mart grazie al fatturato dei negozi aperti da almeno un anno. Le vendite negli Stati Uniti sono salite dell'1,6% mentre gli...
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Cina
Cina, Moody's alza le stime di crescita
(Teleborsa) - Moody's migliora la propria view sulla Cina. L'agenzia di rating americana ha alzato le stime di crescita sul Prodotto Interno Lordo cinese (PIL) sulla scia del maxi piano di...
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Ghana
Only 63% of Ghanaians believe EC will be neutral – Survey
A survey conducted by the Center for Democratic Development (CDD) Ghana, has discovered a worrying public perception about the Electoral Commission’s (EC) ability to effectively declare voting results. Even though 63% of Ghanaians believe the Commission will perform its duties neutrally, guided by law, almost half of the voter population ...
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Giappone
Japan preps ¥3 trillion injection to expedite JR Tokai maglev project by eight years
The government is poised to offer ¥3 trillion ($29.6 billion) in loans to Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) in an attempt to expedite high-speed maglev services between Tokyo and Osaka by up to eight years, government sources said. Under the plan — which involves amending the law to legalize ...
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Giappone
Government and BOJ pledge coordination on volatile yen
In a meeting Thursday, the government and the Bank of Japan affirmed that they will cooperate on action over speculative moves in the currency market after the U.S. dollar dropped below the ¥100 line. “We are monitoring the market very carefully all the time,” Masatsugu Asakawa, vice finance minister for ...
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Qatar
Foreign investment in Qatar grows to $144 billion
Country’s total inward investments increased by $440 million (QR 1.6 billion) from 2013 to 2014
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USA
The watchers
FINANCIAL statements are both infrequent and backwards-looking, so getting a sense for how a business is performing in the present can be nearly impossible. But a cottage industry of a few dozen firms, mostly in America, is gleaning “alternative” data from novel sources, ranging from satellite images to obscure corners ...
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Brasile USA
Streaming on screens near you
COMING soon on your Netflix service: a Portuguese-language sci-fi thriller shot in Brazil; the second series of “Narcos”, about a Colombian drug cartel; a British series about the life of Queen Elizabeth called “The Crown”; and new episodes of “Black Mirror”, a dystopian vision of the future that originated on ...