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Kenya
Pressure for PS Muraguri to resign as Health CS declares no money lost
HEALTH Principal Secretary Nicholas Muraguri, who is at the centre of the Sh5 billion “Mafya House” scandal, is under pressure from State House operatives to quit. The sleaze, also linked to President Uhuru Kenyatta’s own relatives, has turned into a public relations nightmare for the First Family and the Jubilee ...
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Thailandia
SET opens up 0.45 to 1,494.89
Thai stocks opened up 0.03% at the start of trade this morning.
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USA
US beef overtakes Australian beef in import volume in Oct.
The United States has become South Korea's largest source of beef imports in October as more consumers prefer American p
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Kenya
Business: Communication Authority targets 44 schools in ICT programme
Communications Authority of Kenya has kicked off a programme aiming to equip schools with ICT.
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Kenya
Business: Bitter outcome for KQ directors after Awori exit
When Dennis Awori presided over his last event as a director of Kenya Airways, he termed the past months as a period of painful decisions.
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Giappone Spagna
Foes cry bribery as Spain developer vows to pay Vermont voters who back wind farm
Political style yard-signs with the giant word “NO” over the image of a wind turbine pop up on roads leading into the southern Vermont town of Grafton, evidence that yet another community in the state is debating whether to become home to an industrial wind farm. But added to an ...
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Giappone
Funds to help pipeline protesters start modest, soar past $1 million but more needed
The crowdsourcing goal was modest: $5,000, enough to help a few dozen people camping in North Dakota to protest the nearby construction of the four-state Dakota Access oil pipeline. The fund has since topped a staggering $1 million. The fund is among several cash streams that have provided at least ...
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USA Giappone
NY law targeting commercial operators of illegal hotels seen hurting small-scale Anrbnb ranks
Jordan Reeves works for a nonprofit and his partner is a puppeteer. They say there’s not a lot of spare income floating around their Brooklyn apartment. That’s why they sometimes rent the place through Airbnb for extra cash when they’re not there. But a new law that carries fines of ...
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Giappone
Judge rejects bid by top four U.S. airlines to dismiss price-fixing suit filed by passengers
A federal judge rejected a bid by the four largest U.S. airlines to dismiss nationwide antitrust litigation by passengers who accused them of conspiring to raise fares by keeping seating capacity artificially low. In a decision late Friday afternoon, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said she could “reasonably infer the ...
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Nigeria
Gombe target continental ticket
Idris Adesina Newly-promoted Premier League side, Gombe United, have said their eyes are set on winning one of the continental tickets in the league next season. Gombe, along with Remo Stars and Katsina United, got promotion to the Nigerian topflight after winning their division in the Nigeria National League. Coach ...