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Angola, Africa’s second-biggest oil producer, plans to simplify taxation and more than double revenue from sources other than petroleum to curb the government’s reliance on crude.
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Portugal’s economy will contract 2.4 percent this year and shrink again next year, the Catholic University of Lisbon forecast.
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FBI special agent Richard DesLauriers ended the 16-year hunt for accused Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger by organizing a television and social- media campaign targeting female viewers of daytime soap operas whose age range roughly matched the fugitive’s girlfriend.
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Chris Concannon, an executive at high-frequency trading firm Virtu Financial LLC, is under consideration to oversee trading and markets at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, according to people briefed on the discussions.
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Keith Darley, a 34-year-old electrician, hears from the government that Australia is the envy of the developed world. Yet the father of two, who employed 22 people a year ago, now works alone and says he’ll be voting against Prime Minister Julia Gillard in the Sept. 14 election.
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The Obama administration urged a court to block a subpoena by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York seeking White House files for its lawsuit challenging the contraception coverage requirement of the federal health- care law.
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Former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo took the lead in a poll by the South American country’s Catholic University, ahead of April’s election.
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Chilean fund manager Fernando Tisne is delivering the world’s best emerging-market bond returns as he profits from distressed and junk-rated Latin American corporate debt.
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Pope Francis ventured outside the Vatican’s walls to pray at a Roman basilica and pay his hotel bill the day after becoming the first Roman Catholic leader to hail from outside Europe in more than 1,200 years.
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Angola plans to restart a railway used to bring metal to the Atlantic Ocean port of Lobito from some of the world’s richest copper fields after a four-decade halt due to a civil war.
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