Author: ReutersMon, 2017-09-25 03:26ID: 1506312057803941000MANILA/SINGAPORE: Filipino billionaire Tony Tan Caktiong, who has built Jollibee Foods Corp. into a near-4,000 store purveyor of sweet-style spaghetti, burgers and fried chicken, is looking…
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Author: FRANK KANEMon, 2017-09-25 03:00ID: 1506284985549611900NEW YORK: Speaking on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York last week, Mohamed Shainee said that relations between the Republic of Maldives and Saudi Arabia are “at thei…
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Author: ReutersMon, 2017-09-25 03:00ID: 1506284985489611600DUBAI: Shares of Abu Dhabi-listed Dana Gas fell sharply on Sunday after news that a London court hearing on its maturing sukuk issue would resume.After several delays last week, a London Hi…
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Author: AFPMon, 2017-09-25 03:00ID: 1506284744819568200LONDON: Brexit negotiator David Davis on Sunday dismissed a report that Britain was prepared to pay a £40 billion ($54 billion) divorce bill on leaving the EU.The Times quoted a “Brussels so…
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Author: ReutersMon, 2017-09-25 03:00ID: 1506284744869568500WASHINGTON: Internet giants, including Alphabet’s Google and Facebook, are moving to compromise on several major policy issues as they adjust to an abrupt shift in the political winds in…
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Author: ReutersMon, 2017-09-25 03:00ID: 1506284744759567900LONDON: British takeaway food delivery firm Deliveroo has raised $385 million in new funding, the firm said in a statement on Sunday which set out that the money would help establish operat…
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Author: ReutersMon, 2017-09-25 03:00ID: 1506284744689567600FRANKFURT: A Lufthansa bid price of €200 million ($239 million) to buy assets from insolvent Air Berlin plus €100 million to meet operating costs is roughly correct, a source familiar w…
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Author: ReutersSun, 2017-09-24 13:34ID: 1506250926856080500BAGHDAD: Iraq is committed to respecting its reduced oil production quota as agreed with the OPEC and other exporters, Oil Minister Jabar Al-Luaibi told a news conference on Sunday in Baghd…
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Author: Arab NewsSun, 2017-09-24 16:47ID: 1506250105786004400DUBAI: International Finance Corporation (IFC) has agreed to invest $150 million (SR562.5 million) in Egypt’s agriculture sector in partnership with the country’s private sector, UAE…
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Author: ReutersSun, 2017-09-24 15:20ID: 1506244828285640900BEIJING: A number of provincial capitals across China have rolled out new curbs to further slow home property sales, and bear down on lingering speculators that could destabilize markets ah…
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South Africa’s strategic partnership with the EU helps spur investment, innovation and job creation. Paolo Borzatta of think tank The European House-Ambrosetti and Stavros Nicolaou of pharmaceutical company Aspen discuss how both parties can stre…
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Essential ingredients for private sector investment, by Dario Musso
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With its massive pharmaceutical export market, South Africa represents a significant opportunity for investors looking to break into the African continent
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Transparency in the sub-Saharan real estate market has improved, which is helping to pull in international investment. Louis Bearn reports.
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Public-private partnerships might seem tailor-made for the Middle East and Africa region, but the success rate is low. So what is going wrong, asks Mazdak Rafaty.
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With its new Innovation Box tax regime Israel is among the countries looking to capitalise on new global tax rules that are expected to encourage greater alignment of intellectual property registration and R&D activity. Courtney Fingar reports.
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The ongoing crisis surrounding Qatar, in which a group of countries led by Saudi Arabia are enforcing a blockade, is a worrying development for investors in the Gulf. Jacopo Dettoni looks at the options available to them.
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South Africa's president, Jacob Zuma, has survived a no confidence vote in the country National Assembly. However, the country is still reeling from a wave of high-profile corruption and malpractice scandals.
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Sanctions against Qatar are affecting the business viability of the whole Middle East, analysts warn
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Container ship berth marks Umm Qasr’s arrival on the China-Gulf Express route
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Experts expect fierce internal battles as leaders battle over spoils of success
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Leaders face task of rebuilding after party’s worst postwar defeat
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Tailored curbs on 8 nationalities replace ban on travellers from 6 Muslim-majority states
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Prospect of shaky coalition support for Merkel heightens sense of political risk
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Developing nations eclipse richer rivals as falling costs cut need for subsidies
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Automated routine work is everywhere — even coaching
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Investors excited about idea of merging insurance with big data and internet sales
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President’s son-in-law denies he used personal account to conduct official business
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President says football league should sack players who do not stand for national anthem
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Canyon Bridge purchase of Hertfordshire-based group comes at key time for ministers
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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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THE face that stares from Kim Jong Su’s passport shows a rather woebegone man in suit and tie. In fact, Mr Kim is a taekwondo master and, allegedly, a North Korean spy. In 2015 he was detained in Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, along with a c…
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Prince Muhammad spots a criticTHESE are jittery times in Saudi Arabia, an absolute monarchy that prefers to script its political changes many years in advance. Over the past two weeks, police have arrested dozens of public figures who seem to hav…
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They’re not flaggingASSOUGEY, a technician from Lomé, the capital of Togo, was arrested on September 7th. His crime: participating in one of the anti-government protests that have rocked the country in recent weeks. A policeman beat him with t…
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AS THE jihadists of the so-called Islamic State (IS) retreat, the Arab and Kurdish forces allied against it in Iraq are turning their arms towards each other. Rather than celebrate victory, Masoud Barzani, the president of Iraqi Kurdistan, called…
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THE train north from Cairo winds through the lush fields and meandering canals of the Nile Delta, before chugging into Alexandria. The scenery is pleasant on a 180km journey that can drag on for more than four hours. It is slow enough that EgyptAi…
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Worth a thousand wordsJOSEPH KINKONDA, one of the most famous artists in the Democratic Republic of Congo, lives in a dank bedroom in Ndjili, a scrubby neighbourhood of Kinshasa. At the end of his bed sits a plate with a few balls of paint wrappe…
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THE recovery of southern Iraq’s marshlands is arguably one of the great environmental triumphs of recent times. Reduced to dust and withered reeds when Saddam Hussein drained them to flush out rebels in the 1990s, the wetlands once again buzz wi…
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THIS time Donald Trump seemed to back his braggadocio with results. On September 7th he met the ruler of Kuwait, who has tried to mediate the three-month feud between Qatar and his Gulf neighbours led by Saudi Arabia. Mr Trump suggested a new medi…
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The Syrian army pushed into the eastern city of Deir ez-Zor on September 5th, breaking the three-year-old siege of a government-held enclave by Islamic State (IS). It is a victory for Bashar al-Assad, Syria’s blood-soaked dictator, and yet anoth…
- 18 days ago, 7 Sep 17, 10:44am -

Laughing and learningWHEN 14 years of civil war ended in 2003, Liberia was left with decrepit schools. Many children carried Kalashnikovs rather than textbooks. Since then Liberian governments have tried to start afresh. But, in part because of t…
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U.S.-backed forces said they were advancing through eastern Syria after seizing the Conoco gas plant there from Islamic State, striking a blow to the terror group’s dwindling finances, which rely heavily on its control of Syria’s oil and gas fiel…
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Iran said it had tested a new medium-range ballistic missile, the day after unveiling it in defiance of U.S. criticism over its disputed nuclear program.
- 23 hours ago, 24 Sep 17, 1:49am -

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Iran will continue to build up its ballistic missile program and other capabilities, as it showed off its military hardware in defiance of U.S. criticism.
- 3 days ago, 22 Sep 17, 11:02am -

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and other officials are urging Mr. Trump to certify Iran’s compliance with the accord but make changes to it that would address U.S. concerns, while others like Sen. Tom Cotton want Mr. Trump to decertify Iran’s c…
- 3 days ago, 22 Sep 17, 10:09am -

Iraq has launched an offensive to drive Islamic State from Hawija, one of the group’s few remaining strongholds in the country.
- 3 days ago, 21 Sep 17, 9:17pm -