© Reuters. Retail Struggles Point to Cotton Supply Glut, Stalling Rally (Bloomberg) — Cotton growers are facing a growing supply glut as shoppers are slow to return to stores, threatening to halt a recovery in…
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Is time travel possible for humans? Jasmine, age 8, Canberra, ACT. Hi Jasmine. I wish! In books and movies, our favourite characters can use “time-turners” and treehouses to travel through time. Unfortunately, it isn’t that…
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(Agence Ecofin) – Au Sénégal, l’opérateur télécom Sonatel lance un emprunt obligataire de 100 milliards FCFA ce 15 juin sur le marché financier de l’Uemoa pour financer son plan d’investissement 2020. L’entreprise veut moderniser et…
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© Reuters. By Geoffrey Smith Investing.com — Fears of a second wave of Covid-19 infections sweep markets after Beijing and Tokyo report a spike in new cases, overshadowing another big step towards reopening in Europe.…
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In the Gambia, teams of young tourism guides in their first holiday season are doing something very different from what they learned in training. They have been redeployed to act as coronavirus guides for their…
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(Agence Ecofin) – Les investisseurs sud-africains Mergence Investment et Third Way Investment ont conclu un projet d’énergies renouvelables à 26 millions $. Ce domaine est susceptible de générer des rendements attrayants malgré la crise de covid-19…
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2/2 © Reuters. A TORC Oil & Gas pump jack near Granum 2/2 By Bozorgmehr Sharafedin LONDON (Reuters) – Oil prices fell on Monday as new coronavirus infections hit China, Japan and the United States,…
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All humans alive today can claim a common ancestral link to some hominin. Hominins include modern humans, extinct human species, and all our immediate ancestors. Recent discoveries of hominin remains, including the skull of a…
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(Agence Ecofin) – En Tanzanie, le Fonds d’accès universel aux services de communications (UCSAF) et l’opérateur TTCL ont signé un accord pour la couverture télécoms de 45 villages (520 000 Tanzaniens) dans les neuf prochains mois.…
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© Reuters. Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President Robert Kaplan speaks at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco By Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Systemic racism and high unemployment levels among black and Hispanic Americans create…
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