By Libby George and Karin Strohecker LONDON (Reuters) – Angola is not the next Venezuela, the head of state oil firm Sonangol said on Wednesday while pledging to further cut debt, even if both oil-rich nations have relied heavily on loans from China. Venezuela, the Latin American oil behemoth, has found itself struggling to repay […]
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By Vuyani Ndaba JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s finance minister is expected to address concerns over dwindling tax revenues in his mid-term budget on Wednesday to reassure credit agencies of his commitment to a tighter purse, a Reuters poll found. Malusi Gigaba is due to give his first review on finances on Oct. 25 and […]
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By Dan Whitcomb and Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Residents of Northern California’s wine country left homeless by the state’s deadliest-ever wildfires could be temporarily housed in federal government trailers, officials said on Wednesday, as the death toll from the blazes rose to 42. Since erupting on Oct. 8 and 9, the blazes have […]
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LIMA (Reuters) – Peru released more than 5,000 baby turtles into an Amazonian nature reserve this week, part of a group of 700,000 being hatched artificially in 2017 to keep their eggs from being depleted by excessive hunting in the wild, a park official said on Wednesday. The latest batch of baby yellow-spotted Amazon river […]
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LISBON (Reuters) – Portugal’s fires have burnt 520,000 hectares of forest this year, 52 times the size of Lisbon and representing nearly 60 percent of the total area burnt in the entire European Union in 2017, data from the EU showed on Wednesday. The amount of land burnt is the highest ever in Portugal’s history, […]
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By Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Thousands of Somalis demonstrated on Wednesday against those behind bombings that killed more than 300 people, defying police who opened fire to keep them away from the site where their loved-ones were killed. The twin blasts in the heart of Mogadishu on Saturday also injured more than 400 in […]
Read More ABUJA (Reuters) – Four Britons have been kidnapped in Nigeria’s southern Delta state, a police official said on Wednesday. The police are attempting to rescue the four people, who were taken by unidentified gunmen on Oct 13, said Andrew Aniamaka, a spokesman for the Delta state police. (Reporting by Paul Carsten; editing by John Stonestreet)
Read More GENEVA (Reuters) – Plague has been ruled out in the Seychelles following lab results from 10 patients, including one earlier deemed a “probable” case, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday as the disease continued to spread in Madagascar. The U.N. health body initially raised the alarm on Monday after initial tests on a […]
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By Ron Bousso LONDON (Reuters) – BP is targeting smaller and wider-ranging investments in renewable energy to avoid large losses in the sector like those it suffered earlier in the decade, Chief Executive Bob Dudley said on Wednesday. BP and peers including Royal Dutch Shell and Total have recognized the need to reduce carbon emissions […]
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By Tanisha Heiberg JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Commercial egg production in South Africa has tumbled 17 percent and over 1,000 workers have lost their jobs in the wake of an outbreak of avian flu in June, industry experts said on Wednesday. Commercial egg production per day has dropped to 17 million from 20.4 million after an […]
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NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenya’s opposition leader Raila Odinga called on Wednesday for a mass protest on Oct. 26, the date the country is due to hold a presidential vote that he is boycotting. “Demonstrations will continue. October 26 will be the biggest demonstration of them all,” he told a crowd of several thousand cheering supporters […]
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By Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Turkey’s swift response to Somalia’s deadliest truck bombing drew praise from survivors and officials who called Ankara their “only genuine” international partner, an implicit challenge to that Western backers that spend billions on security. Within 48 hours of the huge twin explosions that hit Mogadishu on Saturday, a Turkish […]
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