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Vai alla Scheda Paese »There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
— John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Uhuru delivers 500 police vehicles, promises to fill 'glaring gaps'
Police have received 500 new vehicles to enhance their mobility and welfare. President Uhuru Kenyatta commissioned the vehicles on Monday saying one of the most glaring gaps in the security sector was transport. Uhuru said his government intervened as the effectiveness of the National Police Service had been hampered. “This ...
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Business: China, Europe drive shift to electric cars as U.S. lags
Electric cars will pick up critical momentum in 2017, many in the auto industry believe - just not in North America.
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Business: SpaceX returns to flight, sending satellites into orbit
A SpaceX Falcon rocket blasted off from California on Saturday, returning the company to flight for the first time since a fiery launchpad explosion in September. The 230-foot (70-meter) rocket launched from VandenbergAir Force Base at 9:54 a.m. PST (1754 GMT) to deliver 10satellites into orbit for Iridium Communications Inc.
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Tanzania: Cassava Pact With Chinese Firm 'A Big Boost'
[Daily News] THE government has described a-one billion US dollar partnership agreement on commercialisation of cassava farming and processing with Tanzania Agricultural Export Processing Zone Limited and Epoch Agriculture (TAEPZ) from China as a big boost towards industrialisation.
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Pound drops after Brexit backing from Trump
Prime Minister Theresa May won endorsement from US President-elect Donald Trump over her Brexit course but sterling plunged on Monday on fears that Britain could be on a collision course with its EU allies. Trump said Britain leaving the EU would “end up as a great thing” and promised to ...
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Nintendo takes big gamble with Switch’s split personality
Nintendo Co.’s new Switch gaming console won’t be in stores until March 3, but the machine is fully baked and ready to play. The press got a chance to try out the new machine at an event in Tokyo last week, and events will be held in Japan and North ...
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L’Algérie se tourne vers le Royaume-Uni
Compte tenu de la mauvaise récolte céréalière enregistrée durant la saison 2015/2016, l’Office algérien interprofessionnel des céréales (OAIC) est aujourd’hui contraint de multiplier ses sorties sur le marché international pour l’achat de quantités importantes de blé. Selon l’agence Reuters, l’Algérie a acheté, à ce jour, 181 587 tonnes de blé britannique ...
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Massive human smuggling gang foiled in multinational operations led by Istanbul police
Istanbul police’s human smuggling bureau has exposed a massive smuggling gang that operates in a number of European states and facilitates the illegal travel of both national and foreign migrants as well as criminals to Western European countries
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'I’ve basically been kicked out of the country' - US expat slams Identity Malta
An American woman who has been living in Malta for years claims a bureaucratic mess at the government citizenship agency has turned her short-term residence application into a short notice eviction. “After several attempts to apply and being told conflicting information by people at Identity Malta – first my application was ...
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Siblings who hacked Renzi had Maltese company connections
A brother-and-sister team, Giulio and Francesca Maria Occhionero, suspected of conducting an ambitious, years-long hacking campaign targeting thousands of accounts belonging to some of Italy’s leading political and business figures, have been linked to Malta.The motive behind the sprawling campaign, which carried Masonic overtones, remains a mystery, but those in ...
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Air Malta: government turns to private investors outside aviation industry
In the wake of Friday’s official announcement that the government’s negations with Alitalia to take a 49 per cent stake in Air Malta had crashed and burned, the government is understood to have now turned to private investors outside the aviation industry to keep the struggling airline afloatSources within the ...
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Updated: Loan to Nationalist Party by Zaren Vassallo paid back in full
PN officials who spoke to this newsroom earlier today said that the €250,000 loan that businessman Zaren Vassallo gave to the party has been paid in full in August of last year. The Malta Independent on Sunday quoted unnamed sources within the Nationalist Party who informed the newspaper that only ...
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Special Prosecution Panders Public Sentiments by Trying to Arrest Business Leader
Samsung Group, the global giant with an annual sales in excess of US$230 billion, is in danger of being pushed off the cliff. That's because special prosecutors are set to decide whether to issue an arrest warrant to the group's vice chairman and de facto leader Lee Jae-yong on January ...
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Trump planning Iceland summit with Putin
US President-elect Donald Trump plans to hold a summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin on his first foreign trip shortly after taking office, the Sunday Times reported. Trump would seek to “reset” relations with the Kremlin, with Iceland the likely venue, emulating Ronald Reagan’s Reykjavik meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail ...
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Business: Nairobi Securities Exchange main Index falls to lowest point since 2009
The shilling is also down this year, weakening 1.37 per cent so far against the dollar according to Reuters data, mainly due to seasonal dollar demand from importers and a firmer US currency globally.
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Kenya: Don't blame us, Chebukati firm says on land case payments
A law firm associated with one of the nominees for the electoral commission jobs is not to blame for loss of public funds following its inability to defend a public interest case in court.
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Turkey, Russia to invite US to Syria talks: Turkish FM
Turkey and Russia have decided to invite the United States to Syria peace talks due to be held this month in the Kazakh capital Astana, Turkey's foreign minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on Jan.14
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Moody’s to pay $864 million to settle claims it inflated ratings on toxic debt
Moody’s Corp. has agreed to pay nearly $864 million to settle federal and state claims it gave inflated ratings to risky mortgage investments in the years leading up to the financial crisis. The deal announced Friday was struck among the New York-based rating agency, the Justice Department and the attorneys ...
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Giant inflatable rooster resembling Trump is big hit in China
A factory in eastern China has been doing brisk business selling giant inflatable roosters, some as tall as 16ft (4.9m), based on a design widely perceived to resemble US President-elect Donald Trump. Yifang Inflatables, a factory in the city of Jiaxing, near Shanghai, began selling the inflatables after images of a ...
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How mobile video is changing the way we witness crime
Mobile video is changing the way we witness crime, from live footage of a mentally disabled man tortured by four assailants, to a recording that led to the manslaughter of an Israeli soldier, to the body cameras designed to keep police accountable.We're all still wrestling with the implications.In theory, such videos ...
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Lawmakers urge British PM May to clarify Brexit intentions
A committee of British lawmakers is urging Prime Minister Theresa May to clarify her intentions on Brexit — particularly whether she intends to keep Britain in the European Union's large single market.The House of Commons' Exiting the EU committee urged May to publish her plan soon and to give lawmakers ...