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Afghan women lawyers on the run face life in limbo abroad By Reuters

Afghan women lawyers on the run face life in limbo abroad By Reuters

2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Afghan women walk down a street in Kabul, Afghanistan, September 16, 2021. Picture taken on September 16, 2021. WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS/File Photo 2/2 By Karolina Tagaris…

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Why Boris Johnson’s plans for a ‘high-wage economy’ require a major shift in the way British business works

Why Boris Johnson’s plans for a ‘high-wage economy’ require a major shift in the way British business works

Boris Johnson has declared that his government plans to build a “high-skill, high-wage” economy across the UK. But it will not be an easy thing to deliver. Indeed, the initial response from some business leaders…

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Microsoft’s rise and fall points to one thing — don’t fix what isn’t broken

Microsoft’s rise and fall points to one thing — don’t fix what isn’t broken

Twenty years on from the public release of Windows XP, the popular operating system is still regarded one of Microsoft’s greatest achievements. As of August this year, Windows XP still maintained a greater market share…

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IMFC backs new trust to channel resources to vulnerable economies

IMFC backs new trust to channel resources to vulnerable economies

The International Monetary and Financial Committee says it backs a proposed trust that would allow the International Monetary Fund to channel resources to a wider range of needy countries. The IMFC – one of the…

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Energy & Precious Metals – Weekly Review and Calendar Ahead By Investing.com

Energy & Precious Metals – Weekly Review and Calendar Ahead By Investing.com

© Reuters. By Barani Krishnan Investing.com — One of the most insulting epithets hurled at investing professionals is where they are likened to blindfolded monkeys throwing darts at a newspaper’s financial pages to select portfolios…

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buying a football club can still be lucrative – with the right business tactics

buying a football club can still be lucrative – with the right business tactics

Many Newcastle United fans cheered the announcement on October 7 that their club had finally been sold for £305 million. The sale, to a consortium headed up by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, adds to…

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U.S. takes step toward oil and gas auction off Alaska coast next year By Reuters

U.S. takes step toward oil and gas auction off Alaska coast next year By Reuters

© Reuters. Downtown Anchorage sits on a coastal plane between Cook Inlet and the Chugach Mountains, in Alaska, June 24, 2015. REUTERS/Mark Meyer/Files (Reuters) – The Biden administration on Friday took a procedural step towards…

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Sorry Boris Johnson, the UK will not become the Qatar of hydrogen

Sorry Boris Johnson, the UK will not become the Qatar of hydrogen

“Britain will become the Qatar of hydrogen,” Boris Johnson declared as the government laid out its 368-page strategy for reaching net zero emissions by 2050. It sounds magnificent, but what does it mean in practice?…

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Apple’s iPod came out two decades ago and changed how we listen to music. Where are we headed now?

Apple’s iPod came out two decades ago and changed how we listen to music. Where are we headed now?

On October 23, 2001, Apple released the iPod — a portable media player that promised to overshadow the clunky design and low storage capacity of MP3 players introduced in the mid-1990s. The iPod boasted the…

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Central banks still value diversification, say reserve managers

Central banks still value diversification, say reserve managers

The sharp increase in US sovereign debt yields in the past few months is unlikely to result in central bankers ending their decade-long pursuit of foreign exchange diversification, according to delegates attending National Asset and…

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