When President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the decision to implement an initial 21-day national lockdown in response to the threat posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, he referred to “modelling” on which the decision was based. A…
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© Reuters. File photo of a worker walking past a pump jack on an oil field owned by Bashneft, Bashkortostan By Florence Tan SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Oil climbed on Monday after major producers agreed to…
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Dating and hook-up service Grindr has announced its intention to remove the “ethnicity filter” from its popular app. The controversial function allowed paying users to filter out prospective partners based on ethnicity labels such as…
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Gold has always bewitched mankind. It glows like mysterious sunshine, and never tarnishes or corrodes. It bends to a hammer, turns liquid in a kiln, but glitters for all of time. The legendary Shang dynasty…
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4/4 © Reuters. Venezuela’s government launches new fuel pricing system, in Caracas 2/4 By Vivian Sequera and Deisy Buitrago CARACAS (Reuters) – Hundreds of Venezuelans queued up in miles-long lines to try to fill their…
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The growing interest in economic issues and scrutiny in matters of governance are by far the only positives drawn from the ruckus sparked by recent government actions. With the ruling alliance increasingly inclined to navigate…
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Malaria has been a terrible human disease from before the neolithic period up to present day. It has likely caused more human deaths than any other infectious agent. If realised, malaria eradication could be amongst…
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Governments are all deciding which struggling companies to help out in the COVID-19 pandemic. Among the many looking for help, some have a strange deathly pallor. This is nothing to do with whether they trade…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The logo of Russia’s oil company Rosneft is pictured at the Rosneft Vietnam office in Ho Chi Minh City MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s largest oil producer Rosneft (MM:) said on Sunday…
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The UK government’s list of key workers helping society to deal with the pandemic was a long one. But it seems to me that some of the people who really keep us going have been…
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