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China’s parliament will vote in March on a new foreign investment law that will ban forced technology transfer and illegal government “interference” in foreign business practice. The time-table suggests the law will probably be…

Ethopia on Tuesday said it had arrested 276 individuals for their suspected roles in deadly violence in Dire Dawa city, located in Eastern Ethiopia. The Dire Dawa city police commission said this in a statement issued in Addis Ababa. The…

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says it urgently requires 50 million dollars from the 840 million dollar humanitarian response appeal to tackle new cases of displacement. Edem Worsonu, Head of Office,…

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A Nigerian professional forum in the U.S. has put measures in place to attract an estimated $3 billion investment into the Nigerian economy in the next three years. The Nigerian American Business Forum (NABF) stated at its 2019…

Abortion is a “terrible’’ drama but women who go through it must find mercy rather than castigation, Pope Francis said on Monday. “To really understand the drama of abortion you have to be in a confessional, (it is) terrible,’’ Francis told…

The United Nations special envoy to Yemen on Monday urged warring parties to quickly implement a troop withdrawal from the port of Hodeidah, acknowledging that proposed timelines had slipped while the country stood on the brink of famine.…

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Fifteen members of a separatist militant group in North-eastern India were convicted on Monday for involvement in a series of bombings in 2008 which claimed at least 88 lives. Eighteen blasts in the Assam state capital Guwahati and three…

The United Nations migration and Refugee Agencies on Monday denounced physical and verbal attacks against Venezuelans in the region and urged Latin American Leaders to condemn xenophobia and show solidarity. “Although isolated and…