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USA
Business News: Global war on smoking heats up
The US Food and Drug Administration's proposal to strip cigarettes of their addictive properties has opened a new front in the international campaign to reduce smoking, with health authorities in at least four other countries studying the idea.
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Kenya
Business News: Businesses remain shut as private sector suffers election blues
Businesses have yet to shake off election blues as the volume of shares traded at the Nairobi Securities Exchange declined.
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Kenya
Business: Businesses remain shut as private sector suffers election blues
Businesses have yet to shake off election blues as the volume of shares traded at the Nairobi Securities Exchange declined.
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Colombia Bolivia
Aumentaron asesinatos de defensores de derechos humanos en Colombia
Source: Government of Colombia Country: ColombiaEl Programa Somos Defensores documentó un aumento del 30% en los asesinatos de defensores de DD. HH. y líderes sociales en el primer semestre de 2017. Presentarán informe la próxima semana.El Programa Somos Defensores documentó un aumento del 30% en los asesinatos de defensores de derechos ...
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USA Nigeria Regno Unito Yemen
More resources and funding needed to pull people back from the brink of famine
Source: UN Security Council Country: Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, YemenUN Security Council issued presidential statement to urge greater humanitarian access to famine-threatened Yemen, South Sudan, Somalia and north-east Nigeria.SC/12946 SECURITY COUNCIL 8020TH MEETING (AM) Calling upon all parties in Yemen, South Sudan, Somalia and north-east Nigeria to urgently take steps that would enable a ...
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USA
SK Energy Set to Import Crude Oil from the U.S.
SK Energy has decided to import U.S. crude oil for the first time in a bid to diversify its crude import sources. This is the first instance of a Korean oil refiner to buy American oil after the U.S. Trump administration asked for more energy purchase in the Korea-U.S. summit ...
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Corea del Sud
"I Will Make the Country a Place Where No One Worries about Medical Expense"...Prez.
President Moon Jae-in visited on August 9 St. Mary's Hospital Seoul and announced a plan to expand the health care insurance coverage significantly. Before his announcement, he spent 50 minutes in the hospital meeting patients and their care takers. He said in his health insurance coverage speech, "I will make ...
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Giappone
Sharp expands sales of LCD, narrows gap with Samsung, LG
Japan-based Sharp Corp. saw its shipment of liquid crystal display panels double in the second quarter from a three-mont
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Nigeria
Experts advise FG on port facility development
Eric Dumo The Federal Government has been advised to adopt the public-private partnership model to address the decay in infrastructure at the nation’s seaports. Making the call in Lagos during the second edition of the Taiwo Afolabi Annual Maritime Conference, a partnership between Sifax Group and Maritime Forum of the ...
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Nigeria
Return of history to schools
Chief Imam Taofeek Sanni, Trade Fair Complex Central Mosque, Lagos State, +23480234164: History is defined as a chronological record of significant events, including explanations of their causes. Therefore, the news that the Federal Government has approved the reintroduction of History into the curriculum of schools came as a big relief. ...