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Mozambique, site of the world’s largest gas discoveries in the past decade, will receive most of its royalties after explorers recover their costs, according to the Center for Public Integrity.
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Every 12 years, on the banks of India’s holy River Ganges outside Allahabad, a city of more than 10 million people springs up. Picture the whole of New York landing on the doorstep, followed by all of Philadelphia.
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Rwanda will sell its first international bond by the end of July as it seeks to improve infrastructure strained by a decade of economic growth faster than 8 percent, President Paul Kagame said.
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India is able to treat just a fifth of its sewage, fueling domestic conflicts as growing cities battle for water resources, pushing up prices and increasing leaks, Vice President Hamid Ansari said.
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Somalia’s al-Shabaab militia banned 16 aid agencies including the United Nations Children’s Fund and the World Health Organization, after accusing them of alleged “illicit activities and misconduct.”
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Indian billionaire Cyrus Poonawalla, founder of the world’s biggest maker of vaccines, will slash the price of polio immunization and introduce shots for diarrhea and pneumonia, undercutting Pfizer Inc. and GlaxoSmithKline Plc.
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About 420,000 people in the Syrian province of Homs, half of them children, are in need of immediate humanitarian assistance, according to a United Nations mission that spent a month in the area.
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Gold brought death to Umoru Musa’s nine-family compound in Sunke, a mud-brick village in northern Nigeria.
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The death certificate for 3-year-old Rashid Ahmed hides more than it reveals.
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Angola, Africa’s second-biggest oil producer, approved a state budget that forecasts a deficit while doubling social spending from two years ago.
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