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Export agency 'generated £500m to Scottish economy'
The Scottish government's exports agency has said it generated more than £500m to Scotland's economy last year. Scottish Development International (SDI) said it had also managed to secure 5,500 jobs ...
Scotland, Scottish Development International, GBP, Scottish government, Anne MacColl, All keywords...
bbc.co.uk
38 minutes ago
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Germany agrees to extend nuclear plant life span
Germany's coalition government has decided to extend the life span of the country's nuclear power plants by an average of 12 years, officials say. Under the agreement, some plants will ...
Germany, Angela Merkel, Chancellor, Renewable energy, Wolfgang Schaeuble, All keywords...
bbc.co.uk
38 minutes ago
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Mozambique food price rises 'irreversible'
The government of Mozambique says price rises which have led to riots in the capital Maputo are "irreversible". The comments came after an emergency cabinet meeting on the two days ...
Mozambique, Alberto Nkutumula, Maputo, Government spokesman, Armando Guebuza, All keywords...
bbc.co.uk
22 hours ago
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Nigerian economy 'to grow by 10%'
Nigeria's economy will hit double-digit growth by the end of 2011 or early 2012, the country's finance minister has told the BBC. Olusegun Aganga's prediction comes after the Nigerian economy ...
Olusegun Aganga, Nigeria, Finance, BBC, Finance minister, All keywords...
bbc.co.uk
22 hours ago
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The miracle of the cerrado : Brazil has revolutionised its own farms. Can it do the same for others?
IN A remote corner of Bahia state, in north-eastern Brazil, a vast new farm is springing out of the dry bush. Thirty years ago eucalyptus and pine were planted in ...
Brazil, America, Africa, Embrapa, India, All keywords...
economist.com
2 days ago
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A Macedonian makeover : The capital city gets a controversial facelift
ITS charms are many, but architecture is not usually seen as one of them. Rebuilt after an earthquake in 1963 wiped out most of the city, Skopje, the capital of ...
Skopje, Macedonia, Nikola Gruevski, Alexander the Great, Vardar river, All keywords...
economist.com
2 days ago
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Black stuff in a green land : After decades of searching, evidence of oil is found off the coast of Greenland
WHEN Cairn Energy, a British petrochemicals company, this week announced the first firm indication of worthwhile oil deposits off Greenland’s coast, inhabitants of Nuuk, the island’s gritty capital, greeted the ...
Greenland, Oil, Greenpeace, Cairn Energy, Worthwhile oil deposits, All keywords...
economist.com
2 days ago
8.
A danger list in danger : In its care for precious places, the UN cultural agency is torn between its own principles and its members’ wishes; the principles are losing ground
WHEN an archipelago famed for its flora and fauna is deemed to have escaped from environmental peril, that might sound like good news for anyone with an interest in the ...
United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, Galapagos Conservation Trust, United Nations, Paris, China, All keywords...
economist.com
2 days ago
9.
Jam tomorrow, tomorrow and tomorrow :
Drivers beware: a booming economy and middle class may result in painfully slow roads. One traffic jam this month, along a highway leading to Beijing, stretched over 100km and lasted ...
Beijing, Energy, Transport infrastructure, CNY, USD, All keywords...
economist.com
2 days ago
10.
Manila showdown : A bungled rescue of Hong Kong hostages sparks a diplomatic row
AS A policeman ineffectually sledgehammered the windows of a hijacked bus, in a desperate effort to reach 15 hostages trapped inside, it became sickeningly clear that a rescue operation had ...
The Philippines, Rolando Mendoza, Manila, Policeman, Philippine National Police, All keywords...
economist.com
2 days ago
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Pink cabs rev up : A blow for feminism—or against it?
SINCE electing its first left-wing mayor in 1997, Mexico City has been a self-consciously liberal oasis in a conservative country. The current mayor, Marcelo Ebrard, has legalised abortion on demand, ...
Mexico City, Marcelo Ebrard, Susana Sánchez, First left-wing mayor, Current mayor, All keywords...
economist.com
2 days ago
12.
Overfished and over there : Scotland’s fishermen are up in arms as rivals commandeer a valuable catch
SCOTTISH skippers are not the cheeriest lot at the best of times. Now the escalating row over mackerel is adding to their dourness. This summer first Iceland and then the ...
Iceland, Britain, European Union, Faroe Islands, Norway, All keywords...
economist.com
2 days ago
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Correction: Czechoslovakia :
Last week’s story on drug use in the former Czechoslovakia incorrectly conflated the velvet revolution and the velvet divorce. The country split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993, ...
Czech Republic, Slovakia, All keywords...
economist.com
2 days ago
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Dreaming of 2022 : The South waves sticks and dangles footballs at the North
SOUTH KOREANS are unsure precisely how best to respond to the uncertain changes in the regime to the North. A hardline approach to its neighbour has been the official stance ...
South Korea, Han Sung-joo, Pyongyang, Seoul, Food, All keywords...
economist.com
2 days ago
15.
In the steps of the master :
Chasing the Devil: The Search for Africa’s Fighting Spirit. By Tim Butcher. Chatto & Windus; 325 pages; £18.99. Buy from Amazon.co.ukIN HIS bestselling book about the Congo, “Blood River”, Tim ...
Tim Butcher, Graham Greene, Butcher, Liberia, Africa, All keywords...
economist.com
2 days ago
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