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13 Oct 2016 1500 GMT BREAKING: U.N. General Assembly appoints Portugal’s Antonio Guterres as secretary-general for five years from Jan.Continue Reading
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‘Extremely dangerous’ Hurricane Nicole churns towards Bermuda
Miami (AFP) – Bermuda braced for Hurricane Nicole on Thursday as the powerful Category Four storm churned towards the islandsContinue Reading
US Election 2016: Trump ‘groped woman like an octopus’
(BBC)-Jessica Leeds says Donald Trump groped her on a flight when she was a 38-year-old businesswoman. Two women have toldContinue Reading
Sri Lanka President signals end to honeymoon
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s President Wednesday signalled that his honeymoon with Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s administration was wearing thin andContinue Reading
‘Contract theory’ earns pair Nobel Economics Prize
Stockholm (AFP) – Two US-based academics won the Nobel Economics Prize on Monday for groundbreaking research on contract theory thatContinue Reading
Billionaire Buffett fires back at Trump on tax claims
AFP October 10, 2016 After Donald Trump’s claims that Warren Buffett avoided paying income taxes by deducting sizable business losses,Continue Reading
One in five Japan employees face ‘death from overwork’: report
A fifth of the Japanese workforce faces the risk of death from overwork, according to a new government survey intoContinue Reading
US election: Senior Republicans condemn Trump’s lewd comments about women
BBC-Senior Republicans have condemned obscene comments Donald Trump made about women in a 2005 videotape.In the video, posted by theContinue Reading
Islamists win Morocco parliamentary elections: provisional results
Rabat (AFP) – The Islamist Justice and Development Party (PDJ), which has headed Morocco’s coalition government for the last fiveContinue Reading
Colombian President wins Nobel Peace Prize
Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos has won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to bring an end to 52Continue Reading
