Archive for the January 11, 2016
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Nepali bureaucrat Pradip Raj Kandel on Sunday clinched the title of Integrity Idol, a television talent show-styled initiative that awards honest civil servants. The contest, in its second year, saw over 50,000 people cast their
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Thousands of people took to the streets of Hong Kong on Sunday in a reprise of anti-China protests of over a year ago, demanding to know the whereabouts of five missing people linked to a
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Two people have died and more than a hundred homes have been destroyed in a huge bushfire, Australian authorities said Sunday, as firefighters battled to tame the out-of-control blaze. The inferno - which has razed
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All British parents will be encouraged to take government-run parenting classes under plans due to be announced by Prime Minister David Cameron, The Observer reported Sunday. A previous scheme to educate parents from under-privileged backgrounds
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As Barack Obama prepares to deliver his final State of the Union address on Tuesday night, the US president and his aides have insisted he will not be content simply to run out the clock
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A plunge in the oil price to 12-year lows during Russia's New Year and Orthodox Christmas break means the country returns to work on Monday with its economic recovery and once-mighty savings war chest on
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Turkey's central bank will next week increase the amount of foreign-denominated collateral banks can pledge against borrowing in the interbank market, it said on Sunday. The maximum ratio of forex collateral will rise to 70
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China will push for a unified real estate registration system in all cities and counties by the end of the year, state media said on Sunday, seen as a major step in the fight against
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Azerbaijan's economic growth slowed to 1 percent last year from 2.8 percent in 2014, well below official forecasts, due to low oil prices and the devaluation of the national manat currency, the country's president said
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Egypt's urban consumer price inflation was steady at 11.1 percent in December, unchanged from the previous month, while its core inflation eased to 7.23 percent, the central bank and the state's official statistics agency CAPMAS
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