Published on 04.03.2019 at 05h54 by AFP Indonesia and Australia on Monday signed a long-awaited trade deal after months of diplomatic tension over Canberra’s contentious plan to move its embassy to Jerusalem. Indonesian trade minister Enggartiasto Lukita and his Australian counterpart Simon Birmingham wrapped up the multi-billion-dollar agreement in Jakarta, some nine years after negotiations […]
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Graffiti of a swastika and the words “Jude Raus” (Jew, get out) recently appeared overnight on the headquarters of a liberal opposition movement in the Polish capital Warsaw. The act of vandalism in late February is the latest sign that anti-Semitism persists in the EU member, even if it mostly rears its ugly head on […]
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Thirty years ago this month, a young British physician working at a lab near Geneva invented a system for scientists to share information that would ultimately change humanity. But three decades after he invented the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee has warned that his creation has been “hijacked by crooks” that may spell its destruction. […]
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Published on 04.03.2019 at 03h54 by AFP Nawal El Moutawakel took just 54 seconds to go from the “dark to the light” when she became the first Muslim woman from Africa to win Olympic gold in the 400 metres hurdles at the 1984 Games. The 56-year-old Moroccan has since forged a successful career as a […]
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With campaigning for May’s European Parliament elections shifting into high gear, security officials are preparing for potential attempts by Russia-linked hackers to sway the vote — and potentially deepen divisions in the bloc. “There’s a strong likelihood that people will try to manipulate the debates and falsify the European election results,” the EU’s security commissioner […]
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Published on 04.03.2019 at 03h54 by AFP French President Emmanuel Macron has launched a call for reconciliation with Italy following a diplomatic spat between the neighbours that saw Paris briefly recall its ambassador. Relations between the two countries have fractured due to repeated clashes between centrist Macron and Italy’s populist coalition government. In February, Paris […]
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Published on 04.03.2019 at 03h54 by AFP A tornado killed 14 people and caused “catastrophic” damage in the southern US state of Alabama on Sunday, local officials said. “At this time, we have 14 confirmed fatalities,” Lee County Sheriff Jay Jones said in a video posted on Facebook by a journalist from a local CBS […]
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Published on 03.03.2019 at 22h54 by AFP Thousands of dancers from Rio de Janeiro’s elite samba schools were set Sunday to roll out their traditional parades of feathers and sequins — combined with a large dose of social and political commentary — as the main business of the giant annual Carnival gets under way. It’s […]
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Published on 03.03.2019 at 21h54 by AFP The US and Russian military chiefs are to meet Monday in Vienna to discuss operations in Syria, where the US has decided to leave a residual force to protect its Kurdish allies. General Joseph Dunford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will represent the US side […]
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Published on 03.03.2019 at 19h54 by AFP Chile’s President Sebastian Pinera sharply criticized his leftist predecessor and UN rights commissioner Michelle Bachelet Sunday for failing to condemn Venezuela’s socialist President Nicolas Maduro for human rights violations. “The high commissioner Michelle Bachelet still has not condemned the Maduro dictatorship for violating human rights in Venezuela. This […]
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The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said the country recorded a total trade value of ₦32.26 trillion year-on-year in 2018, representing 39.3 per cent increase over the corresponding period in 2017. The trade value for 2017 stood at ₦23.16 trillion. The NBS said this in its Foreign Trade in Goods Statistics for Fourth Quarter of […]
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