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The appointment of Armando Manuel as Angola’s finance minister boosts the legitimacy of the southern African nation’s $5 billion sovereign wealth fund, Markus Weimer of Control Risks Group said.
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The French parliament passed a law allowing same-sex marriage and adoption that has split public opinion in the country.
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For all the mudslinging, corruption charges, lawsuits and Twitter spats in the battle to be Paris’s next mayor, one thing is settled: It will be a woman.
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French President Francois Hollande, stung by one of his ministers admitting he’d hid an overseas bank account, is preparing some of the strictest reporting requirements in Europe for politicians.
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French President Francois Hollande’s government won its first confidence vote even as the resignation of Budget Minister Jerome Cahuzac increased the political challenge of revamping Europe’s No. 2 economy.
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Kuwait’s top court threw out a request by the government to change voting laws, in a victory for opposition campaigners who are demanding that the ruling family hand more powers to elected politicians.
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In May 2008, a unit of Koch Industries Inc., one of the world’s largest privately held companies, sent Ludmila Egorova-Farines, its newly hired compliance officer and ethics manager, to investigate the management of a subsidiary in Arles in southern France. In less than a week, she discovered that the company had paid bribes to win contracts.
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Keeping former President Nicolas Sarkozy in style costs the French taxpayer more than 2 million euros ($2.6 million) annually as his successor drags citizens through an unprecedented shrinking of the state budget.
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At a sprawling complex in the Saudi desert, 90 miles southeast of Riyadh, dozens of black and white Holstein cows amble from their sandy surroundings into air- conditioned milking halls. Inside, they take their places on a motorized, rotating corral and are milked by machines while munching on shredded alfalfa and being misted with water.
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Gulf Cooperation Council leaders arrived in Riyadh today for a two-day meeting that may focus on measures needed against Iran and the impact of unrest in Syria.
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