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Nigeria
Financing Nigeria’s $3trn Infrastructure Deficit
As Nigeria strives to rebuild its economy, experts have continued to hammer on the need for building infrastructure that would trigger business growth and the development of the country.However a critical part of building infrastructure in Nigeria that has always been a challenge is financing. BUKOLA IDOWU, OLUSHOLA BELLO and ...
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Israele
Israel's TAT Technologies wins contract for $40 million from unnamed foreign airline
Business in Brief | Elsztain moves forward with plan to buy IDB’s Discount Investments stake ■ ReWalk shares on plans for $15 million share offering ■ Fox-Wizel brings in Reshet Network as partner for new Terminal-X ecommerce site ■ Tel Aviv shares start new Jewish year lower
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USA
UN Migration Agency assists newly displaced from Hawija operations
Source: International Organization for Migration Country: IraqUpon arrival, families are assigned a tent and given two kits: a Rapid Response Mechanism kit from a local NGO; and an NFI kit from IOM. A doctor is also present to identify health needs.Military operations to retake Hawija district and surrounding areas, which began ...
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USA
Somalia launches Post Disaster Needs Assessment and Resilience Framework to analyze the recurrent impact of drought
Source: UN Development Programme Country: SomaliaThe assessment and framework will be a vital first step in enabling Somalia to transition from humanitarian intervention towards sustainable recovery and disaster preparedness.Mogadishu, September 19, 2017. At a meeting in Mogadishu on Monday the Federal Government of Somalia launched a Post Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA), ...
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Corea del Sud
Bertens grijpt in Seoul achtste WTA-titel in het dubbelspel
Kiki Bertens heeft alweer haar achtste WTA-titel in het dubbelspel binnengesleept. De Wateringse was in Seoul met haar partner Johanna Larsson te sterk voor het Thaise duo Luksika Kumkhum en Peangtarn Plipuech.
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USA
Why America’s tax and trade debate is wrong
Policy should concentrate on creating local supply chains that enrich the economy
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Cina Russia
Russia and China quietly build business bonds
Beijing oil and gas investment gives Moscow alternative cash source
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Malta
Home education activists find it ‘exhausting’ lobbying for home-schooling rights
Activists lobbying for the educational choice to home-school their children are finding it ‘exhausting’, according to the chairperson of the Malta Home Education Association (MHEA) Abigail Giuffre, who is hoping for better dialogue with the Education Ministry. With the start of a new scholastic year literally just around the corner, ...
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USA
Merkel seen winning 4th term, nationalists strong in Germany
Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative bloc was on course Sunday for a lackluster victory in Germany's national election while the anti-migrant Alternative for Germany party was heading for a triumphant entry into parliament, projections suggested.Merkel's main center-left rivals, the Social Democrats, were set to slump to a historic low after Sunday's ...
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USA
OPM denies foreign website report PM Muscat is in hospital
The Office of the Prime Minister this afternoon denied a report appearing in a foreign website that Prime Minister Joseph Muscat was taken ill and is in a New York Hospital.The OPM did not indicate the website involved, simply saying that its report is false.Earlier, OPM chief of communications Kurt ...