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USA Kenya
Kenya Red Cross steps up humanitarian cash relief as drought fails to relinquish grip
Source: International Federation of Red Cross And Red Crescent Societies, Kenya Red Cross Country: KenyaAn innovative, mobile phone-driven cash programme has helped prevent nearly 250,000 people from slipping into severe food insecurity in drought-ravaged Kenya.(This story is a KRCS-IFRC press release issued in Nairobi on Monday. A detailed scientific study of the Kenyan drought was ...
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Brasile
Confronto entre PM e criminosos deixa 2 mil sem aula na Cidade de Deus
Pelo terceiro dia consecutivo, foram registrados confrontos entre policiais militares e criminosos na Cidade de Deus, zona oeste do Rio. De acordo com a Unidade de Polícia Pacificodora (UPP) da comunidade, militares em patrulhamento foram recebidos a tiros por criminosos na localidade conhecida como Santa Efigênia. Leia mais notícias em Brasil Por ...
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USA
New S.E.C. Chairman Pledges to Look After Ordinary Investors
Walter J. Clayton also called for greater transparency in the sale and marketing of bonds to retail investors, in a speech to the Economic Club of New York.
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Brasile
Brazil’s Senate Approves Controversial Labor Bill
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – Not even the seven-hour sit-in promoted by the opposition, four of which were held in the dark, prevented Brazil’s Senate from approving the country’s new labor reform law on Tuesday. With a vote of fifty in favor and 26 against ...
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Senegal
Le PAODES a aidé au renforcement de la couverture universelle
Dakar, 12 juil (APS) - Le Forum Santé sur les initiatives innovantes pour la couverture santé universelle ouverte, mercredi à Dakar, devrait faciliter les échanges pour capitaliser les bonnes pratiques du Projet d'appui à l'offre et à la demande des soins (PAODES) afin de renforcer l'accès à la couverture universelle ...
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Senegal
Un officiel Belge note une "satisfaction globale" dans l'exécution du PAODES
Dakar, 12 juil (APS) - L'exécution du Projet d'appui à l'offre et à la demande de soins (PAODES) porteur de stratégies novatrices qui ont permis l'amélioration de l'accès des populations à des soins de qualité a enregistré une "satisfaction globale" a soutenu, mercredi à Dakar, le co-responsable du projet, Vincent ...
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Russia
EU, Russia play up ties but trade barbs over Syria
EU diplomatic chief Federica Mogherini and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on July 11 said both sides could cooperate on key international issues but traded barbs over Syria at the same time
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Cina
Germany tightens rules to shield businesses from foreign takeovers
Germany has approved rules to make it easier to block the sale of strategically important companies to investors from outside the European Union, prompted by concerns about China acquiring German expertise by that route.
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USA
Fed’s Yellen says economy steady enough for more hikes, bond wind down
The United States is healthy enough to absorb further gradual rate increases and the slow wind down of the massive bond portfolio accumulated by the Federal Reserve during the financial crisis, Fed Chair Janet Yellen said in prepared testimony to be delivered to Congress early on July 12.
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Giappone
Japan ‘Black Widow’ confesses to killing husband No. 4
A one-time millionairess dubbed the “Black Widow” over the untimely deaths of lovers and a husband, admitted poisoning her last partner at her trial this week in a multiple murder case that has gripped Japan