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Nigerian troops killed 10 Boko Haram Islamist insurgents and arrested 65 others in clashes around the northeastern city of Maiduguri, a military spokesman said.
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Apache Corp., the third-worst performer this year among peer oil and natural gas producers, said target compensation for its chief executive officer was cut by 18 percent compared with reported 2012 compensation.
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Once dismissed by Wall Street as a feel-good fad, “sustainable and responsible investing” has gained momentum, today attracting nearly one in every nine dollars under professional management in the United States.
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Jorge Rafael Videla, Argentina’s former dictator who led the country’s military junta from 1976 to 1981, has died. He was 87.
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Nigerian troops mounted air and ground attacks on camps used by the militant Islamist Boko Haram group in the northeast, destroying anti-aircraft and anti-tank weapons, a military spokesman said.
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BSG Resources Ltd., the mining company controlled by Israeli billionaire Beny Steinmetz, called on U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair to help get two of its employees released from “illegal detention” in Guinea.
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Members of Congress from both parties urged Obama administration officials to impose greater economic pressure to curtail Iran’s nuclear ambitions and punish its human-rights violations.
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U.S. lawmakers introduced legislation that would authorize President Barack Obama to provide arms to the Syrian opposition, even as support for the rebels weakened at the United Nations.
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More than 11 percent of investments under U.S. professional management were selected for companies’ financial performance and their social and environmental responsibility in 2012. That’s $3.74 trillion of the $33.3 trillion in investments scanned for environmental, social and governance criteria (known as ESG), according to a November report by the U.S. SIF Foundation.
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China was granted observer status by the Arctic Council, giving the world’s second-largest economy more influence amid an intensifying search for resources in the globe’s most northern region.
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