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| Thousands gather in Nairobi for opposition leader's 'swearing in' ceremony Supporters of Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga of the National Super Alliance (NASA) coalition gather ahead of Odinga's planned swearing-in ceremony as the President of the People's Assembly at Uhuru Park in Nairobi, Kenya January 30, 2018. REUTERS/Baz Ratner. Nearly 100 people killed ...
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| Eurozone growth hit 10-year high in 2017 The eurozone's economy grew at its fastest pace for a decade in 2017, according to official figures. The economy of the 19-nation bloc grew by 2.5% last year, according to Eurostat, the strongest growth since the 3% rate seen in 2007. Eurostat also said that the eurozone grew by 0.6% in the final three ...
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| Fernando Alonso: Two-time F1 champion to race at Le Mans in 2018 & 2019 It begins with the Spa Six Hours on 5 May and includes both the 2018 and 2019 Le Mans races. This season is effectively a transition to a new WEC format where the championship begins in the summer and ends at Le Mans. In 2018, only the Japanese WEC race clashes with a grand prix. At the end of ...
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| Ireland set to hold referendum on abortion law in May Leo Varadkar will campaign to repeal Ireland's constitutional ban on abortion in a referendum, hoping it will allow him to propose new laws to permit the termination of pregnancy at up to 12 weeks. The referendum, likely to be held in late May, will be Mr Varadkar's first electoral challenge since taking ...
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| Blackstone in talks to buy majority stake in key Thomson Reuters unit, sources say US private equity firm Blackstone Group LP is in advanced talks to buy an approximate 55% stake in the Financial and Risk business of Thomson Reuters Corp, a deal that would value the unit at about US $20bn including debt, three sources familiar with the matter said on Monday. Thomson Reuters' ...
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| Lex in Depth: the case against share buybacks A string of companies, including Boeing and Honeywell, have announced close to $90bn worth of share buyback programmes since the reforms were agreed in December. Bank of America Merrill Lynch estimates that of $1.2tn parked overseas, perhaps half of the post-tax total, or around $450bn, could ...
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| Why we wrote our Kafka Client in Pony We knew going in that we couldn't rely on the official Scala/Java client available for Kafka. As mentioned, Wallaroo is written in Pony, and Pony does not run in the JVM. What Pony does give us are some impressive qualities that are critical to achieving our goals such as easy, reliable and low-overhead ...
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| Private Money in Political Philosophy In fact, as an Adam Smith scholar, I had long been aware of some of the institutions, such as the Liberty Fund and the Institute for Humane Studies, that fund lush workshops about the Scottish Enlightenment and other "classic liberal" themes. I know because I, too, went to a few of them—as a wide-eyed ...
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