Author: Mon, 2019-08-19 03:10WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Sunday said he did not want the United States to do business with China’s Huawei even as the administration weighs whether to extend a grace period for the company.Reuters a…
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Mon, 2019-08-19 02:13BUENOS AIRES: Washington and Beijing are working actively to revive negotiations aimed at ending the trade war that has rattled world markets, Donald Trump’s chief economic adviser said Sunday.If teleconferences between bot…
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Author: Mon, 2019-08-19 02:01BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel has fended off growing calls for more fiscal stimulus by citing the slow outflow of existing federal funds — but data suggests the money is indeed being used up as local author…
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Author: Mon, 2019-08-19 01:26BERLIN: Germany has the fiscal strength to counter any future economic crisis “with full force,” Finance Minister Olaf Scholz said on Sunday, suggesting Berlin could make available up to €50 billion ($55 billion)…
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Author: Sun, 2019-08-18 22:25MOSCOW: New machines popping up in Russian shopping centers seem innocuous enough — users insert their passport and receive a small loan in a matter of minutes.But the devices, which dispense credit in Saint Pete…
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Author: Sun, 2019-08-18 22:05MIAMI: Miami is famous for beach parties, gators that wander onto golf courses and iguanas that tumble out of palm trees.But now the city of “Scarface” and “Miami Vice” is vying to become a new powerhouse o…
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Author: Sun, 2019-08-18 21:58BUENOS AIRES: Argentina’s Economy Minister Nicolas Dujovne resigned after a week of economic tumult caused by President Mauricio Macri’s defeat in a primary poll ahead of a general election.Dujovne will be repla…
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Author: ReutersID: 1566122147918572500Sun, 2019-08-18 09:46DAR ES SALAAM: The US-China trade war and uncertainty over Brexit pose risks to Africa’s economic prospects that are “increasing by the day,” the head of the African Development Ban…
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Sun, 2019-08-18 00:05Alongside politics and religion, there is one other dinner party subject virtually guaranteed to push people to opposing extremes: Smoking.In much of the world — especially the West but increasingly in the Middle East and…
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Author: Sat, 2019-08-17 23:45WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump’s reported wish to buy Greenland may have been rejected by Denmark, but it underscores the rising value of the massive, ice-covered island due to global warming and to China’s dri…
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Canada has traditionally been the major investor in Namibia's mining sector, but interest has dried up in recent years. Who will fill the gap?
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Hopes are high that the liberalisation of Namibia's energy market will attract foreign investment, though opportunities remain in the country's agriculture and garment manufacturing sectors. 
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The global fashion industry is a major consumer of resources and cause of pollution. As companies pledge to clean up, will governments come on board? 
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Country-specific data is widely available for companies to decide where to put their investment. Robert Ginsburg, president of RBG Global, explains how this data should be used. 
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Countries throughout the Middle East and Africa are looking to attract growing waves of tourists from China by relaxing visa restrictions and establishing closer business ties. Mazdak Rafaty reports.
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Tunisia's minister of investment, Zied Ladhari, talks to Courtney Fingar about the country’s digitalisation plans, its strengths in ICT and its ambitions to generate 1000 start-ups. 
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The governor of the Central Bank of Tunisia talks to fDi about how the country's democracy is guarding against instability by diversifying the types of FDI it attracts.
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Research by fDi Intelligence reveals which countries receive more than their ‘expected share’ of FDI. 
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Dubai International Financial Centre has welcomed more than 250 new companies in 2019, in line with its ambitious expansion plans. Taha Ahmed reports.
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Saudi Arabia is set to generate wind power within three years, with a slew of new renewable energy investment opportunities. Sebastian Shehadi reports.
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French president calls for global order to be reshaped to deal with crises
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Tehran believes Revolutionary Guards’ strategy shows it can stand up to Trump
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Analysts say ultra-long debt could be illiquid and not significantly cut borrowing costs
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Home Office reassurance to EU nationals leaves confusion over Brexit policy
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Executives and lobbyists criticise measure but urge against retaliation
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Hong Kong-based property group in £4.6bn deal for beer company
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Tech groups allowed to continue selling to telecoms equipment maker under certain circumstances
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Economy has gone from being the powerhouse of the region to one of its laggards
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Start-up Cerebras has developed processor bigger than iPad to help train AI systems
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Business Roundtable urges companies to consider the environment and workers
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Millions of Russian tourists will no longer be soaking up the sun in Turkey and supermarkets across Russia will soon stop carrying Turkish produce after economic relations between the two countries further deteriorated on Monday. Russia prevented 1,2…
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Russia continued to ratchet up sanctions against Turkey Monday, announcing a ban on the import of Turkish fruits and vegetables, the Wall Street Journal reported. As sharp words are exchanged between the two trading partners, other countries are alre…
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World leaders convene in France on Monday for the latest global conference on climate change, called COP21, in an attempt to forge the first legally binding climate agreement amid increasing urgency. Yet officials from some countries are worried that…
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Turkey on Saturday issued a travel warning to its citizens, asking them to avoid all non-urgent travel to Russia, as diplomatic tension between the two countries escalates over the downing of a Russian jet by Turkey earlier this week.The Turkish…
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UPDATED 9:45 a.m. EST: Russia will suspend visa-free travel agreement with Turkey, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday. The action takes effect Jan. 1, the BBC reported.
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Russia threatened economic retaliation against Turkey on Thursday and said it was still awaiting a reasonable explanation for the shooting down of its warplane, but Turkey dismissed the threats as "emotional" and "unfitting".In an escalating war of…
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (Reuters) -- Speculation that Saudi Arabia could devalue its currency may owe more to a poor public-relations effort by Saudi authorities than to the economic pressures on the kingdom. Riyadh has the tools available to pro…
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One particular sentence spoken by the Russian foreign minister Tuesday has Turkish officials feeling particularly uneasy: “We do not recommend that our citizens travel to Turkey for tourism or any other reason,” Sergey Lavrov said. He was in So…
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Saudi Arabia and Angola both beat out Russia as the largest crude oil suppliers to China in October, Bloomberg reported Monday. The huge China market is one arena where the world’s suppliers continue to compete for share amid a global oil glut, a…
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European leaders are planning to crack down on the use of bitcoin, prepaid credit cards and other methods of anonymous payment in response to the Paris attacks last week, Reuters reported Thursday. It's part of a crisis plan that aims to dismantle…
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IT IS OFTEN said of countries that their real wealth lies in their people. Few say this about Gabon. With 2m people and twice the land mass of England, it is among Africa’s richest countries, with a GDP per person of $8,300. Almost all of this come…
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AT THE HEART of Rwanda’s capital sits the Kigali Convention Centre, a $300m monument that lights up the night with the national colours of blue, yellow and green. It symbolises modernity and prosperity in a country that has bounced back from a geno…
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AT HIS PENTECOSTAL church in Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital, Bishop Never Muparutsa sighs at the empty pews. In recent weeks, as the economy has deteriorated, his congregation has shrunk from 400 to 120. Mr Muparutsa sends Bible verses via WhatsApp to…
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FRANTZ FANON, a great theorist of colonialism, wrote that “every colonised people...finds itself face to face with the language of the civilising nation.” This confrontation can persist years after independence. Just ask Morocco. Some in the form…
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SAUDI ARABIA’S air strikes in Yemen have often missed their mark, causing hundreds of civilian casualties. But when the kingdom bombed its own allies on August 11th it was no mistake. The target was southern separatists, who had seized the city of…
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UNDER THE corrugated-iron roof of the Bong Intellectual Centre, a tea house in Gbarnga in northern Liberia, the air is thick with anger. Dozens of people sit on plastic chairs, discussing politics. They complain that their businesses are failing, cor…
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“IN RWANDA IT’S not easy to get a job,” says Jean-Paul Bahati, a student at Kepler, founded in Kigali in 2013. But the 22-year-old believes his course will help him stand out. He studies health-care management, a growing industry in Rwanda. Kep…
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TO OUTSIDERS, BEIRUT’S taxi-hailing rituals can seem baffling. A flurry of honks announces the arrival of a driver, who peers out of his window with eyebrows raised. Hesitate a moment too long—as the uninitiated often do—and he’ll speed off,…
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EXCEPT FOR the glow of a mobile phone behind the watermelons, the fruit-and-vegetable shop on a busy Cairo street looks deserted. The owner says his wares are 25% more expensive than last summer. As prices rise, buyers skimp: regulars who used to buy…
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ALBERT AGISHA NTWALI was resigned to becoming a maths teacher at a secondary school. The 23-year-old from Bukavu in the Democratic Republic of Congo was a stellar undergraduate at his local university. But his career options seemed limited until a pr…
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He hardly mentions it, while his adversaries are obsessed with ‘whiteness’ and ‘white privilege.’
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A proposal to exempt certain companies from a full audit would encourage fraud and hurt investors.
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Four airline employees have already lost their jobs for joining Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests.
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Her ‘strongest case for electability is that she won a Senate seat in the most Democratic state in the country.’
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Snatching away plastic bottles is the latest blunder in a state thick with invasive laws.
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The peso swoons after a presidential vote, showing the risk of an inflation tax.
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The ‘Iliad’ was an audiobook before it was a printed one.
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The rate of increase is falling even as the GOP embraces bad ideas.
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A new Supreme Court precedent saves a county seal featuring a cross.
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A new rule won’t put more fish and wildlife at risk.
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