Archive for the January 9, 2018
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Nvidia Corp will partner with Uber Technologies Inc and Volkswagen AG as the graphics chipmaker's artificial intelligence platforms make further gains in the autonomous vehicle industry. The company, which already has partnerships in the industry
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German airline group Lufthansa said Monday it plans to hire more than 8,000 people in 2018, the latest step in a relentless push for growth at one of Europe's largest carriers. Taking into account workers
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Egypt is building a major water treatment and desalination plant, the president said Monday, as the Nile-dependent nation plans for any fallout from an upstream dam being built by Ethiopia. The North African country is
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Hundreds of Sudanese students from the University of Khartoum threw stones at anti-riot police Monday on a third day of protests against soaring bread prices, an AFP correspondent reported. Bread prices more than doubled last
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Romania's central bank announced on Monday its first hike in interest rates since 2008, as inflation picks up and the economy expands at one of the fastest paces in Europe. The BNR central bank said
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London's financial district, is optimistic that a Brexit transitional agreement can be achieved "in the next few months", its representative to the European Union told AFP on Monday. "The City of London is reasonably optimistic
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French-owned Vauxhall said Monday it will axe 250 jobs on top of the 400 already planned at a car factory in England. UK brand Vauxhall that last year was bought by PSA, the maker of
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Mercedes-Benz said Monday it had defended its top spot as the world's biggest luxury carmaker in 2017, with a surge in sales, particularly in China, enabling it to clock up another record year. The Stuttgart-based
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Industrial orders in Germany fell in November, data showed on Monday, but not enough to derail the growth outlook for Europe's biggest economy, analysts said. Industrial orders fell by 0.4 percent in November from the
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French President Emmanuel Macron should seize the ideal opportunity of an economic upswing to make headway on his reform programme, International Monetary Fund officials said on Monday. Macron, elected last May on a pro-business reform
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