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12 May 2023
The World Economic Forum is urging Nigeria to identify risk-hedging facilities to back the naira financing of clean energy projects due to the limited availability of dollar finances.
11 May 2023
The president of the United States, Joe Biden, met Tuesday with the leader of the Republican majority in the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, to discuss the debt limit, without reaching an agreement.
11 May 2023
Toyota on Wednesday said it expects operating profit to climb 10% this business year, with a five-fold jump in pure electric vehicle sales, amid an easing in global supply chain disruption from a shortage of chips.
11 May 2023
Several Jewish groups have condemned the $150 million sale of jewels linked to a Nazi. Christie's auction house is putting 700 pieces of jewelry up. These are from the collection of Heidi Horten an Austrian heiress whose German husband, Helmut Horten, had been a Nazi.
10 May 2023
The rules governing who gets government jobs and how are too lax in Germany, anti-corruption campaigners say. They're pointing at a case in Robert Habeck's economy ministry as an example.
9 May 2023
The US government could start to run out of money if Congress fails to raise the debt ceiling by the end of the month. DW looks at the wider impact of a debt default.
9 May 2023
More than 1 million polio vaccines intended for children have been destroyed as a resulting of looting in Sudan, the U.N.'s children's agency UNICEF said on Friday
7 May 2023
The revised anti-espionage law increases security risks for foreign individuals and businesses operating in China, say experts, especially amid growing geopolitical and trade frictions between Beijing and the West.
7 May 2023
Germany witnessed a 5.2% decline in exports in the month of March. The larger-than-expected drop was caused by lower demand from the EU, US and China.
7 May 2023
The US Federal Trade Commission has unveiled a proposal that would bar social media giant Meta from profiting off the personal data collected from child users. The FTC is accusing Facebook and Instagram's parent company of repeated violations of data privacy policies.
6 May 2023
Every year in India, industrial accidents kill thousands of people and leave thousands of others disabled for life. According to the government, at least 6,500 workers died on the job between 2017 and 2021.
6 May 2023
Taiwo Oyedele, the Fiscal Policy Partner and Africa Tax Leader at PwC Nigeria believes Nigeria's newly introduced 2023 Fiscal Policy Measures and Tariff Adjustments should be suspended and revisited.
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FRANCE 24's culture editor Eve Jackson tells us about the life and work of US writer Paul Auster, who has died aged 77. Best known for "The New York Trilogy" mystery novels, Auster wrote more than 30 books that were translated into 40 languages. He had a particularly big following in France.
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In this Science segment, we look at the public health scandal surrounding a prescription drug called Androcur. First used in the 1980s to treat acne, hair loss or hirsutism (excessive body hair), it was later prescribed as a contraceptive pill.
1 hour ago
The ongoing war in Gaza has prompted debates in Malaysia and elsewhere in Southeast Asia over what is seen there as the West's moral decline for not having more forcefully condemned Israeli actions.
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Viral videos on social media claim to show US President Joe Biden either "shaking hands with a ghost" or with "thin air". Sources also report that former president Donald Trump has been flatulent and sleepy in the courtroom during his New York trial. We review these viral claims in this edition of Truth or Fake.
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Taiwan's Defense Ministry said on Friday that a number of Chinese military planes crossed the median line in the Taiwan Strait.
