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Stock markets mixed as trading year nears end
AFP, Published on 29/12/2023
» NEW YORK - Global stocks were mixed Thursday on the penultimate trading day of 2023, while oil prices fell on easing worries about shipping disruptions in the Red Sea.
Attacks kill at least 160 people in central Nigeria
AFP, Published on 26/12/2023
» BOKKOS (NIGERIA) - Armed groups have killed at least 160 people in central Nigeria in a series of attacks on villages, local government officials said on Monday.
Poland calls on West to rally around Ukraine in Kyiv visit
AFP, Published on 23/12/2023
» KYIV (UKRAINE) - Poland's new foreign minister on Friday urged the West to rally around Ukraine, choosing the war-torn country for his first visit abroad in a sign of support as other allies waver on aid.
Shrinking Caspian Sea worries Turkmenistan
AFP, Published on 21/12/2023
» TURKMENBASHI, Turkmenistan - On the Caspian Sea coast in Turkmenistan — one of the world's most secretive states — Batyr Yusupov can no longer ferry his passengers between two ports. There is not enough water.
‘Shock therapy’ begins in Argentina
AFP, Published on 21/12/2023
» BUENOS AIRES - Argentine President Javier Milei has announced a series of measures to deregulate the country's struggling economy, eliminating or changing more than 300 rules via presidential decree, including on rent and labour practices.
US and Venezuela swap prisoners, 'Fat Leonard' as tensions ease
AFP, Published on 21/12/2023
» WASHINGTON - The United States released an ally of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in exchange for 10 American detainees and a fugitive dubbed "Fat Leonard" in a sweeping prisoner swap deal between the rival governments on Wednesday.
Illegal mining, smuggling threaten Ghana cocoa industry
AFP, Published on 20/12/2023
» ACCRA - Ghana, the world's second biggest cocoa producer, faces a growing risk to its harvest — and blow to its crisis-hit economy — from illegal mining and smugglers, industry officials, farmers and activists warn.
'Financially solid': Hamas revenues set to withstand war with Israel
AFP, Published on 18/12/2023
» PARIS: Hamas has been the focus of a relentless Israeli onslaught in Gaza but with resilient and diverse finances, it is expected to have a significant war chest at its disposal as the conflict drags on.
Zuma deals new blow to ANC hopes in S. Africa election
AFP, Published on 16/12/2023
» SOWETO (SOUTH AFRICA) - Former South African president Jacob Zuma on Saturday drove a new split in the ruling African National Congress, calling for a boycott of the party in a landmark 2024 election.
Kuwaiti emir Sheikh Nawaf dies at 86
AFP, Published on 16/12/2023
» KUWAIT CITY - The emir of oil-rich Kuwait, Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, died on Saturday, the royal court said, after three years in power. He was 86.