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India becoming third largest world economy India largest in Commonwealth by 2018, 3rd in world by 2024 The 2014 ranking puts the US first, followed by China, Japan, Germany, the UK, France, Brazil, Italy, India and Russia, in that order. Joe Fernandez Free Malaysia Today KUALA LUMPUR- The latest edition of Cebr Global’s World Economic […]

Morocco’s planned Al Noor Tower- Africa’s tallest skyscraper at 540 metres (1771.65 ft) Casablanca’s newest landmark By John O’Ceallaigh Telegraph (UK) Visitors to Casablanca typically explore its famed Hassan II mosque and medina, but that could change following the announcement of plans to build Africa’s tallest skyscraper in the Moroccan city. Dubai-based developers Middle East […]

United States to bid for 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games By United States Olympic Committee (USOC) REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – The United States Olympic Committee board of directors unanimously approved a U.S. bid to host the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the USOC announced today. Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington, D.C., remain under […]

Bermuda: Cannabis (Marijuana) Medicine Act approved by members of parliament By Jonathan Bell and Rebecca Zuill The Royal Gazette Legislation allowing the use of cannabis-derived medicines won approval in yesterday’s House of Assembly. However, the debate in the House of Assembly saw the Opposition criticising the new law as not going far enough, while Government […]

Bermuda will host the 2017 America’s Cup Source: America’s Cup Event Authority The next America’s Cup will be raced in Bermuda in June of 2017. The host venue was confirmed at a press conference in New York on Tuesday by Harvey Schiller, the Commercial Commissioner for the America’s Cup. “In Bermuda we have a perfect […]

UN Committee Against Torture’s Concluding Observations Sweden, Ukraine, Venezuela, Australia, Burundi, USA, Croatia and Kazakhstan GENEVA- The Committee against Torture considered the combined third to fifth periodic report of the United States of America at its 1264th and 1267th meetings, held on 12 and 13 November 2014, and adopted the concluding observations at its 1276th […]

The season of blackface, in parts of Europe, returns- Zwarte Piet Black Pete Racist? ‘Zwarte Piet’ Controversy Leads To 90 Arrests In Netherlands By Howard Koplowitz International Business Times Protesters disrupted a pre-Christmas celebration Saturday in the Netherlands that uses “Black Petes” to accompany St. Nicholas, leading to 90 arrests in the Dutch town of […]

Ethiopia plans debut dollar-bond joining Ghana, Kenya By Lyubov Pronina Bloomberg Ethiopia plans to sell its first dollar bond as Africa’s fastest-growing economy exploits record demand for the continent’s debt. Ethiopia picked Deutsche Bank AG and JPMorgan Chase & Co. for fixed-income investor meetings in Europe and the U.S. beginning tomorrow, according to a person […]

China Railway Construction wins $12 billion Nigeria deal The $11.97 billion deal marks China’s largest single overseas contract project so far, it said, citing CRCC. The rail will link Lagos, the financial capital of Africa’s largest economy and leading oil producer, and Calabar in the east Reuters BEIJING- China Railway Construction Corp. Ltd. (CRCC) has […]

Argentina receives second currency swap from China Reuters BUENOS AIRES – Argentina’s central bank on Monday, 17 November 2014 received the second installment of a currency swap from China worth $500 million at a time when the South American country is battling to shore up its ailing foreign reserves. In default on its debt and […]