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Vai alla Scheda Paese »When men can be made to hope, then they can be made to win.
— Bryce Courtenay
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Australia's Capilano Honey benefits from Comvita JV
Australian honey maker Capilano Honey's joint venture with Comvita has had an immediate, if unrealised, benefit for the Queensland-based company's bottom line. Capilano and Comvita, the Tauranga-based company, teamed up last year...
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Writer Begins Continental Cities Tour To Promote Unity
By Chinelo Chikelu Author and medical practitioner, Segun Adigun has embarked on a book tour to traverse 40 cities in 4 continents; 24 across Nigeria, and 15 cities within Asia, Europe and Australia. Tour of Awakening, however, is not your traditional book tour, where the focus is marketing the author’s ...
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Australia, a giugno commercio al dettaglio in decelerazione
(Teleborsa) - Frenano le vendite al dettaglio australiane Nel mese di giugno, il commercio è salito dello 0,3% rispetto al mese precedente quando erano salite dello 0,6%. Il dato...
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How 'Game of Thrones' became TV's first global blockbuster
Viewers around the world are eagerly tuning in to watch the seventh season of “Game of Thrones.”That phrase – “viewers around the world” – hasn’t applied to television premieres before. For most of its history, television has been a profoundly national medium. While shows like “Dallas,” “Baywatch” and “The Simpsons” ...
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Labor Party of Australia's most populous state votes to recognize Palestinian state
The New South Wales party's resolution is a watered-down version of the original proposed by ex-Foreign Minister Bob Carr, but pressure is increased on the federal Labor leader to come down on the issue
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Police disrupt plot in Australia to 'bring down an airplane'
Police disrupted the first alleged plot in Australia to bring down an airplane and arrested four men in raids on Sydney homes, officials said Sunday.Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said that security has been increased at Sydney Airport since Thursday because of the plot. The increased security measures also were extended ...
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Business: Ex-CEO: Why I fled Mumias Sugar after resigning three times
Former Mumias Sugar Company boss Errol Johnson resigned at least three times during his two-year stint at the troubled Mumias Sugar Company before he finally fled to Australia and refused to come back.
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Australia grants additional AU$13 million in expanding access to education in Jordan
Source: UN Children's Fund Country: Australia, Jordan, Syrian Arab RepublicThe additional funding is part of Australia’s three-year AU$220 million humanitarian and resilience response in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, which aims to ensure that every child in the Kingdom is enrolled in school.AMMAN, Jordan, 24 July 2017: The Government of Australia announced ...
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Vatican Cardinal Pell faces Australian court on sex charges
Silent but defiant, Cardinal George Pell made his first court appearance in Australia on Wednesday on charges of sexual abuse, vowing through his lawyer to fight the allegations that have rocked Rome and threatened the pope's image as a crusader against abusive clergy.Pell, Australia's highest-ranking Catholic and Pope Francis' top ...
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Pope’s top aide, Cardinal Pell, denies sexual abuse charge
Vatican finance chief Cardinal George Pell, a top advisor to Pope Francis, denied all charges of historical sexual abuse Wednesday at his first appearance in an Australian court over the allegations. The 76-year-old, the number-three figure in the Vatican, returned from Rome earlier this month to face the charges in ...
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Australian minister quits Cabinet because he might be Italian
An Australian government minister has quit the cabinet because his mother told him he might be Italian - and therefore ineligible to be an MP. Resources minister Matt Canavan's shock announcement followed the recent resignations of two senators who discovered days apart that they had technically never been elected because they ...
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Pope’s Top Adviser Faces Sexual Abuse Charges In Australia
One of the pope’s top advisers, Cardinal George Pell, makes his first court appearance in Australia this week on charges of historic sex crimes, a bitter reminder for his home town reeling from more than a dozen abuse cases. Pell, the Vatican’s economy minister, last month became the most senior ...
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Malta becomes fifth-most popular country for rich Chinese emigrants
Chinese millionaires are flocking to Malta for its attractive lifestyle and property investment opportunities, according to a new survey.The survey was conducted by the Hurun Research Institute, in association with Visas Consulting group. Countries were evaluated based on investment opportunities, immigration policy, property purchasing, personal tax rates, health care, visa-free travel ...
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Business: Edith Cowan University to conduct seminars for professionals
Australia's Edith Cowan University, in partnership with Australian Education Consultants (AEC), will hold student recruitment forums in Kenya from July 24 to 29.
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Jane Austen features on new British 10-pound note
Two hundred years to the day after Jane Austen died, a new 10-pound note featuring an image of one of England's most revered authors has been unveiled - right where she was buried.At the unveiling Tuesday of the new "tenner" at Winchester Cathedral in southern England, Bank of England Governor ...
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Australian senator who breastfed in Parliament quits over dual citizenship
A second Australian senator in less than a week has said she is quitting parliament after discovering she was a dual national and had therefore never really been elected. The controversy has raised questions about how many other politicians might also have no right to be there. Larissa Waters, co-deputy leader of ...
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Flick Electric expanding overseas, eyeing Australia, UK markets
A Wellington energy retailer, which has been labelled a "groundbreaking" business, is amping up to expand overseas.
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FIRST word...Cazzandra Belle
You will never find me... sitting still - I'm always busy doing something! The best invention is... the internet. The thing that makes me the happiest is... spending time with my family. My favourite space in my house is... the dining room, where we play board games, eat and talk together as a ...
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Business: Base Resources forecasts lower ilmenite output from Kenya in 2017/18
Australia's Base Resources expects its ilmenite output in Kenya to fall by 8-14 percent this financial year but does not foresee disruption in the run-up to next month's national election, it said on Thursday.
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Business News: Base Resources forecasts lower ilmenite output from Kenya in 2017/18
Australia's Base Resources expects its ilmenite output in Kenya to fall by 8-14 percent this financial year but does not foresee disruption in the run-up to next month's national election, it said on Thursday.
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Family planning saves lives and promotes resilience in humanitarian contexts
Source: CARE, International Rescue Committee, Save the Children, Women's Refugee Commission Country: Afghanistan, Australia, Burundi, Canada, Central African Republic, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Germany, Honduras, Iraq, Kenya, Lebanon, Myanmar, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United States of America, World, YemenThe ...