Brazil cuts interest rate to record low seven percent Rio de Janeiro, (MILLAT ONLINE):Brazil’s central bank on Wednesday cut the key interest rate to a record low of seven percent, about half of what it was a year ago. The 0.5 percentage point drop in the Selic rate reflected the strong fall in inflation as […]
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Brazil cuts interest rate to record low seven percent
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SpaceX’s Elon Musk to launch his own car into deep space
SpaceX’s Elon Musk to launch his own car into deep space Miami, (MILLAT ONLINE):SpaceX confirmed Wednesday its CEO Elon Musk plans to blast his cherry red electric car off toward the Red Planet when the company’s Falcon Heavy rocket launches for the first time next month. Many wondered if Musk was joking last week when […]
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Global warming outpacing current forecasts: study
Global warming outpacing current forecasts: study Paris, (MILLAT ONLINE):The UN’s forecast for global warming is about 15 percent too low, which means end-of-century temperatures could be 0.5 degrees Celsius higher than currently predicted, said a study released Wednesday. The prediction makes the already daunting challenge of capping global warming at “well under” 2.0 degrees Celsius […]
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Hong Kong stocks open with gains
Hong Kong stocks open with gains Hong Kong,(MILLAT ONLINE):Hong Kong shares opened up Thursday morning as bargain buyers moved in following a recent sell-off that wiped more than six percent off the benchmark index since hitting a decade high last month. The Hang Seng Index added 0.40 percent, or 141.34 points, to 28,366.14. But the […]
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More properties seized from Nigeria’s ex-oil minister
More properties seized from Nigeria’s ex-oil minister Lagos, (MILLAT ONLINE):Two multi-million-dollar penthouses belonging to Nigeria’s former oil minister Diezani Alison-Madueke have been seized as part of corruption investigations. A judge at the Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday ordered the apartments to be forfeited to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission until the probe […]
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Germany probes train crash that injured 41
Germany probes train crash that injured 41 Berlin, (MILLAT ONLINE):German investigators on Wednesday were working to determine what caused the collision between a passenger train and a stationary freight train near the city of Duesseldorf that left 41 people injured. Seven of those hurt were badly injured in Tuesday’s accident, while one person was in […]