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SanlamAllianz Namibia embarks on new era …brings together industry leaders with shared African vision
New Era
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In a bid to access a large untapped African market and to provide appropriate and accessible financial solutions that reach across all levels of society, Sanlam this week officially rebranded as SanlamAllianz Namibia. This landmark development for...
Live updates: Majority of Adams County power outages restored
York Daily Record - Pennsylvania
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12:57 am ETShare this update Outage appears to be over in Littlestown area Harrison Jones As of 12:47 a.m. on the morning of Thursday, June 26, the widespread power outage in the Littlestown area that began around 5:30 p.m. on Sunday, June 22,...
Why Is BlackRock Gunning to Take Over a Minnesota Electric Utility?
Truthout
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June 27, 2025
Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. Who will own our energy future? There’s a battle playing out in northern Minnesota with major ramifications for this question. It...
Will the anti-greenwashing proposal survive the tug-of-war between European institutions?
Euronews
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June 26, 2025
Published on 25/06/2025 - 20:55 GMT+2 Last week, the European Commission announced plans to remove one of the key proposals from the European Green Deal. The directive aims to combat greenwashing by regulating the use of terms such as...
Greece Tourism Arrivals and Receipts Show Strong Growth in 2025
FTN News
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June 27, 2025
Greece tourism arrivals and receipts show strong growth in 2025 as the country continues its post-pandemic recovery with encouraging results across air arrivals, travel spending, and the short-term rental sector. The latest monthly Statistical...
Trump celebrates ‘big, beautiful bill’ despite Senate parliamentarian rejecting key elements – live
The Guardian
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June 27, 2025
Senate Republicans race to resolve tax and health issues in Trump's tax bill to meet 4 July deadlineRepublicans in Congress are scrambling to resolve nettlesome tax and health care provisions in their sweeping tax-cut and spending bill as Donald...
Dip into the pool of the 10 best books of June
Christian Science Monitor
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June 26, 2025
These are the fiction titles our reviewers liked best this month. The Listeners, by Maggie Stiefvater June Porter Hudson, general manager of the Avallon Hotel & Spa in the mountains of West Virginia, receives the assignment of a lifetime in 1942....
Why Is BlackRock Gunning to Take Over a Minnesota Electric Utility?
Truthout
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June 27, 2025
Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. Who will own our energy future? There’s a battle playing out in northern Minnesota with major ramifications for this question. It...
Scottish hoaxers are in on the great tea swindle - but what about Meghan's and Fergie's brews? JAN MOIR
Daily Mail
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June 27, 2025
What is it about tea that brings out the worst in people? Not those who drink it. Those who sell it. In Scotland, the celebrated Wee Tea Plantation Company has turned out to be a massive scam, with cheap tea imported from abroad then passed off as...
Ghana’s Strategic Leap into the Future of Infrastructure
Joy FM
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June 26, 2025
As Ghana embarks on an ambitious journey to become a digitally driven economy, the implementation of Industry 4.0 technologies, particularly Artificial Intelligence (AI), has emerged as a cornerstone of its transformation agenda. These...
2025 CIT Law: New Rates Established and Industrial Park Incentive Removed
Vietnam Briefing
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June 25, 2025
The National Assembly’s approval of Vietnam’s amended Law on Corporate Income Tax (CIT) on June 14, 2025, marks an important change in the country’s tax regime. While the headline tax rate remains unchanged, the underlying structure of how...
Pershing’s Own band, Black music and Pride celebrations, BABYMETAL and more in this week’s ‘Things To Do’
WHYY FM - Pennsylvania
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June 26, 2025
Florida-based brothers Malcolm, 23, and Umoja, 20, honed their musical talents in a performing arts high school. Now they’re a professional duo who combine their talents on violin with a drummer and DJ to play reggae, pop and original compositions...
Vancouver Island hopeful for more local tourists this summer
Nanaimo News Now
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Those travelling to America still represented almost 64 per cent of all trips taken by Canadians in April. Meanwhile, 1.3 million U.S. residents made trips into Canada in April, down 8.9 per cent from 2024, making up 76.7 per cent of all...
Hostinger Review: Website Creation Made Easy
CNET
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Pros Remarkably easy to use Includes LiteSpeed caching plugin Good server performance Affordable plans jam-packed with features Cons Customer service is only available via live chat Live chat service is primarily chatbot-run; speaking to a person...
Making News in Business, June 26
Daily Hampshire Gazette - Massachusetts
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June 26, 2025
UMass professortapped forprestigious honor AMHERST — James E. Young, distinguished professor emeritus of English and Near Eastern studies and founding director of the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies, has been elected to the...
Ghana’s Parliament Passes $2.8 Billion Debt Restructuring Agreement
The Global Economics
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June 26, 2025
Finalised in June 2024, Ghana’s finance ministry agreed upon a pact with the official creditor committee to formalise a debt restructuring deal, which could then allow for a new funding tranche from the IMF. To help disburse funds under an...
Market East visions; How Philly Works expands; Weekly gun violence brief | Morning roundup
Billy Penn - Pennsylvania
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June 25, 2025
#BILLYPENNGRAM OF THE DAY Behind the scenes and under the seats at Arden Theatre Company (Photo by @jrwvk) The coalition that fought the proposed 76ers basketball arena in Center City has released its own community-sourced concept for...
External sector boom: A turning point for government, industry, and households
Business and Financial Times
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July 9, 2025
By Surv. Prof. Forster SARPONG In the first quarter of 2025, Ghana recorded a rare but momentous economic milestone, achieving a net lending position to the rest of the world, according to the Bank of Ghana’s May 2025 Monetary Policy Report. This...
New STOA report urges strategic rethink of EU research Framework Programme
Science|Business
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June 26, 2025
More effort must be made in the next EU Framework Programme to align research projects with the bloc’s strategic objectives, according to a report from STOA, the European Parliament’s science and technology advisory panel. “The current and...
SSA social bonds roundtable: Social bond investors demand volume, variety and strong outcomes
GlobalCapital
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July 9, 2025
Investors would like more, and large reservoirs of social spending in the public sector are not being tapped. Among governments, national and local, still only a minority use the instrument. Meanwhile, investor demand is tangible but diffuse,...