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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
There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
— John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Jitters in the financial markets, sparked by the US presidential election in November, have recently abated but foreign
The director of the US Office of Government Ethics, Walter Shaub, has criticised president-elect Donald Trump’s plan to hand over the control of his business empire to his sons before his inauguration on January 20. The plan does not match the standards of US presidents over the last 40 years, ...
An American soldier stationed in Kuwait shot and killed himself on Thursday at a US military base in the oil-rich Gulf state, the interior ministry said. The ministry said in a statement on its Twitter account that the soldier, whose name was not given, used his personal gun to kill ...
The Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Adeyeye Ogunwusi yesterday visited Lagos State governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, saying it is high time South West states integrate in some areas including food security to develop the region. The imperial majesty emphasized that partnership on food security said it was important for the ...
Il senato degli Stati Uniti fa un primo passo verso l’abrogazione della riforma sanitaria di Obama. Poche ore dopo che il presidente eletto Donald Trump ha promesso in conferenza stampa di “respingere e sostituire” la legge sull’assistenza sanitaria voluta dalla precedente amministrazione, il senato statunitense, controllato dai repubblicani, ha approvato ...
(Teleborsa) - La Volkswagen ha confermato che pagherà 4,3 miliardi di dollari per chiudere la vertenza per lo scandalo Deieselgate, che ha prodotto gravi ripercussioni alle vendite...
Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda held a meeting with incoming U.S. Vice President Mike Pence in the United States on Tuesday, it was learned on Wednesday. Toyoda is believed to have told Pence that the leading Japanese automaker will continue to make contributions to the development of the U.S. ...
South Korea is in the throes of a bird flu outbreak and for the first time has asked the United States to ship it shell eggs. The demand is good for a U.S. egg industry that’s awash in the product, having replenished its flocks after the 2015 bird flu outbreak ...
Six high-level Volkswagen employees have been indicted by a grand jury in the company’s emissions cheating scandal, as the company admitted wrongdoing and agreed to pay a record $4.3 billion penalty. In announcing the federal indictments and plea deal Wednesday in Washington, the Justice Department detailed an elaborate and wide-ranging ...
VOLKSWAGEN has agreed to a $5.8 billion settlement to resolve the US government’s investigations into emissions cheating.
Comvita, the manuka honey products company, has sold its Medihoney brand to US partner Derma Sciences for about $19 million, and will reap a further $11m selling Derma shares in a takeover offer of the Nasdaq-listed company. The...
High demand for the US dollar by Kenyan oil importers has been blamed for the continued pressure on the Kenyan shilling as markets closed yesterday.
High demand for the US dollar by Kenyan oil importers has been blamed for the continued pressure on the Kenyan shilling as markets closed yesterday.
Il Canada rimpiazza il ministro degli esteri prima dell’insediamento di Donald Trump. Stéphane Dion ha lasciato il suo posto come ministro degli esteri del Canada, dopo il primo rimpasto deciso dal premier Justin Trudeau. Al suo posto è stata nominata Chrystia Freeland che in precedenza ricopriva la carica di ministra del commercio ...
Source: UN Children's Fund Country: HaitiUNICEF is working with the Government to address the lasting impacts on children, including protracted food insecurity, persistent risk of disease, and disruptions to educational infrastructure.By UNICEF Haiti When Hurricane Matthew passed over Haiti in early October 2016, it flattened entire neighbourhoods and destroyed the livelihoods of ...
As the long-awaited Malta EU presidency has turned Valletta into a hive of police activity right as I type this – to a ridiculous degree, with many of the few parking areas available cordoned off, traffic jams galore and pedestrians shepherded along as they go about their business, for all ...
Malta has officially joined the Amber Alert, a missing children warning system which helps bring together law enforcement from different countries to tackle the issue of children reported missing.Speaking during the launch held today, the Minister for Home Affairs Carmelo Abela encouraged all EU member states who have not yet ...
A man on trial over human trafficking charges told jurors this afternoon that he was "just another passenger" and that other people on the packed boat mistook him for one of the organisers.Ethiopian Hadish Abayu, 58, is pleading not guilty to charges of people smuggling and complicity in the trafficking ...
The World Bank is forecasting the global economy will accelerate slightly in 2017 after turning in the worst performance last year since the 2008 financial crisis.The 189-nation lending agency said Tuesday that the global growth should expand at a 2.7 percent annual rate this year. That is down from the ...
President Barack Obama bid farewell to the nation Tuesday in an emotional speech that sought to comfort a country on edge over rapid economic changes, persistent security threats and the election of Donald Trump.Forceful at times and tearful at others, Obama's valedictory speech in his hometown of Chicago was a ...
The involvement of Maltese politicians in the Panama Papers scandal will castdoubts on Malta’s ability to push through EU anti-money laundering and tax reforms when it holds the European Presidency, the Green parties at the European Parliament believe.A report commissioned by the Greens EFA group in the European Parliament, titled ...