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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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Editorial: That was the year that was
As we ring out the old year tonight, we can look back and see how momentous this year has turned out to be.Many will undoubtedly point to the Brexit decision by the British electorate and the Donald Trump election in the US as being the two most important events in ...
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Owner of luxurious sailing car faces KMA detectives after 'Star exposé'
The owner of the luxurious sailing car wanted for flouting maritime laws presented himself before the authorities on Friday. Simon Everett faced the Kenya Maritime Authority detectives moments after he learned of a story in the Star that he was being sought. A police source said that the investor wrote ...
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Business: Fishermen seek ways to stay afloat as oceans warm up and destroy marine life
When nearly all the young oysters died two years in a row at shellfish farms in the US Pacific Northwest, workers at first suspected a virus. But the real culprit was a new worry—a change in the acidity of the sea water was feeding the oyster tanks.
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La Cina vieterà il commercio di avorio entro la fine del 2017.
La Cina vieterà il commercio di avorio entro la fine del 2017. La prima fase prevede che entro il 31 marzo alcuni negozi che commerciano avorio siano chiusi e restituiscano le licenze, mentre la fine dell’anno tutto il commercio di avorio in Cina sarà vietato. Una decisione simile è stata ...
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Russian Embassy mocks Obama as a 'lame duck' on Twitter
Embassies are generally paragons of diplomacy, using language so measured it can often frustrate those not accustomed to the niceties of statesmanship. But acrimony between the US Obama administration and its Russian counterpart has led to at least one Russian Embassy throwing diplomacy out the window. Russia's UK Embassy yesterday tweeted a ...
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US refiners face severe labour shortage for deferred maintenance
After years of running flat out, US Gulf Coast refiners are lining up repairs to plants in 2017 – but facing a severe labour shortage that could delay work, drive up costs and raise accident risks. Fuel producers such as Marathon Petroleum Corp and Valero Energy Corp have delayed routine work ...
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Methode Electronics identified Donald Trump among new potential risk factors
The American company Methode Electronics, which currently employs more than 1,200 people in its premises in Malta, has included another risk factor in its regulatory filings.The new risk factor identified by the company is called Donald Trump.According to the latest financial results for the quarter which ended in October 2016, ...
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Two-member parole panel delays making decision on whether to release Charles Manson accomplice
A two-member parole panel delayed making a decision Thursday on whether to release an accomplice of cult killer Charles Manson who is the longest-serving female inmate in California.After a daylong hearing, the panel from the Board of Parole Hearings postponed a decision on whether to recommend freeing Patricia Krenwinkel "because ...
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Senate Pushes For Diaspora Voting In 2019
The Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs is pushing for Diaspora voting in the coming general elections in 2019, Chairman, Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, Sen Monsurat Sunmonu has said. She told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in New York on Thursday that giving franchise to Nigerians abroad would give ...
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What are aid groups' priorities for 2017? - Expert views
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation Country: Cameroon, Chad, Ethiopia, Iraq, Kenya, Niger, Nigeria, occupied Palestinian territory, Somalia, South Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Uganda, World, YemenAfter a year of record humanitarian needs, 2017 looks set to be even more challenging. The Thomson Reuters Foundation asked aid agencies to name their three priorities for ...
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Obama weighs mining curbs in West to save grouse as states split on power plant carbon limits
The Obama administration offered five possible plans Thursday for limiting mining on federal land in the West to protect the vulnerable greater sage grouse, but it isn’t saying which it prefers. The options range from banning new mining activity on about 15,000 sq. miles for up to 20 years to ...
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Minimum wage hikes set to kick in for millions in 19 states
Millions of workers across the U.S. will see their pay increase as 19 states bump up their minimum wages as the new year begins. California, New York and Michigan are among the states with increases taking effect Saturday or Sunday. Massachusetts and Washington state will have the highest new minimum ...
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Turkey, US in fresh spat over terror support
NATO allies Turkey and the United States have engaged in a fresh spat after the former criticized its long-standing partner for providing weapons and thus supporting the Syria-based Democratic Union Party (PYD), which is considered a terror organization by Ankara
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Trump trumpets jobs, prosperity preachers at inauguration
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump says Sprint and satellite firm OneWeb will bring 8,000 jobs to the United States, crediting optimism linked to his election. The post Trump trumpets jobs, prosperity preachers at inauguration appeared first on The Japan Times.
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Moving into 2017
Hopefully 2017 will set the stage for the return of value investing. My comfort zone is furnished with a sense of what constitutes good management, insight into economic trends, a grasp of the business cycle and discipline under pressure. 2016 was characterised by violent market movements due to one off events, ...
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Actress Debbie Reynolds, 84, dies a day after daughter Carrie Fisher
Debbie Reynolds, who lit up the screen in "Singin' in the Rain' and other Hollywood classics despite a tumultuous life, has died a day after losing her daughter, Carrie Fisher. Reynolds was 84.Her son, Todd Fisher, said Reynolds died Wednesday."She's now with Carrie and we're all heartbroken," Fisher said from Cedars-Sinai ...
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In Bahrain woman's slaying, accusations of royal involvement
The slaying stunned the small island of Bahrain: A young mother gunned down in the street as her 6-year-old son watched from inside their car.But who carried out the killing of 28-year-old Shiite woman Eman Salehi has become an even bigger controversy as activists abroad allege a member of Bahrain's ...
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Malta Fiscal Advisory Council publishes final assessment of the government’s 2017 budgetary plan
Malta Fiscal Advisory Council publishes its final overall assessment of the government's budgetary plan for 2017On 28 December, the Malta Fiscal Advisory Council (MFAC) presented its final assessment of the Draft Budgetary Plan for 2017.This Report reviews the conduct of fiscal policy, examining the compliance with the fiscal rules which ...
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Smoking in cars with children will no longer be allowed as of Sunday
As of this Sunday, 1 January 2017, new legislation will come into force making it illegal to smoke in private cars in the presence of children under 16 years of age. "This legislative measure protects children and young people from the damaging effects of second-hand smoke. Children are at particular risk from the ...
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"Adele tijdens de kerstdagen in het geniep getrouwd"
Het lijkt erop dat Adele in het diepste geheim is getrouwd met haar partner Simon Konecki. De 28-jarige zangeres werd in Los Angeles gespot met
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Cord in court to block Uhuru from signing election law
CORD has dashed to court, seeking to prevent President Uhuru Kenyatta from signing into law any changes to the election laws. The opposition moved to court even as the Senate pushed the debate on the Election Laws (Amendment) Act 2016 to January 4, to allow the Legal Affairs and Human ...