• Brasile

    Empresários deixam pessimismo e elevam confiança na economia

    Índice de Confiança da Indústria, relativo a setembro, tem alta de 2,1 pontos, passando de 86,1 para 88,2 pontos. A marca é a mais elevada desde julho de 2014 (88,8) Arquivo/Agência Brasil Os empresários do setor da indústria de transformação retomaram o otimismo quanto à possibilidade de um crescimento das ...

  • Brasile

    Petrobras prorroga prazo para venda de participação em petroquímica

    A Petrobras anunciou a prorrogação - por mais 30 dias - das negociações com a mexicana Alpek, que envolvem a venda de suas participações na Companhia Petroquímica de Pernambuco (Petroquímica Suape) e na Companhia Integrada Têxtil de Pernambuco (Citepe). Segundo a nota da estatal brasileira, distribuída ontem (27) à noite, ...

  • Egitto

    Israel's Peres won Nobel prize but his Mideast peace dream remained elusive

    Shimon Peres, who died on Wednesday at the age of 93, never realised his vision of a new Middle East built upon a 1993 interim peace deal he helped shape with the Palestinians. But Israel's elder statesman won world acclaim and a Nobel prize as a symbol of hope ...

  • Kenya

    Satellite tracking technology helps keep elephants safe

    On September 10, on a beautiful sunny day in Amboseli National Park, I was present when KWS vets successfully attached a tracking collar to Tim, one of Kenya’s last remaining big tuskers. Following the meticulously planned operation, KWS director general Kitili Mbathi thanked veterinary staff and KWS rangers for their ...

  • Qatar Kenya

    State to overhaul KQ’s board during meeting

    The government will overhaul the board of directors of Kenya Airways at the airline's annual general meeting tomorrow, Transport Cabinet Secretary James Macharia has said. Macharia said several directors will be replaced by fresh blood to drive the recovery of the airline following a series of losses in the last ...

  • USA Kenya

    Atheists promote Godless parenting

    Raising a child without God, lots of prayer, the church — and the rod — is anathema to most people in a country overwhelmingly Christian, devout and God-fearing. That is, if you aim to rear a child to grow up to be a decent person and a contributing member of ...

  • Albania Kenya Pakistan

    Raila election “Dream Team” in three-week offensive

    Opposition chief Raila Odinga and his “Dream Team" have stepped up the offensive against Jubilee and pitched the theme of economic exclusion and sabotage of non-supporters. They also have planned a hectic schedule of activities for the former Prime Minister in his presidential bid. The ODM squad led by ...

  • Kenya

    Kenya: Probe begins on Nyanza official's death threat claim

    Chief Finance Officer Sephas Kasera claims he has information that people believed to be contractors owed money by the county government are after his life.

  • Kenya

    Business News: Farmers' renew bid to save indigenous livestock breeds

    The Kenyan business and agriculture industry is on an upward trajectory with the recent 2016 Africa forum for protection, preservation and promotion of African indigenous livestock breeds happening in Nairobi this week.

  • Kenya

    Business: Farmers' renew bid to save indigenous livestock breeds

    The Kenyan business and agriculture industry is on an upward trajectory with the recent 2016 Africa forum for protection, preservation and promotion of African indigenous livestock breeds happening in Nairobi this week.