Venezuelan President Maduro visit to ChinaA handout photo made available by the Press Office of the Miraflores Palace showing Venezuelan president, Nicolas Maduro, along with the First Lady Cilia Flores (R) and the secretary of the Nanshan District Committee, Huang Xiangyue (L), during their arrival for a welcome drone show to Shenzhen, China, 08 September 2023. The Government of Venezuela described this 08 September as 'historic' President Nicolas Maduro's visit to China - the first in five years -, during which he will strengthen 'integration ties and strategic alliances in economic, technological and commercial matters.

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CS Tan 4.9 / 5.0 This book is the result of the author's many years of experience and observation throughout his 26 years in the stockbroking industry. It was written for general public to learn to invest based on facts and not on fantasies or hearsay....

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The Kingfisher baseball team kept its perfect district record intact last week with a home-and-home sweep over Woodward. The Jackets hit the road Monday and came back home with a 10-6 victory. At Homier Field Tuesday, it was a bit more dramatic in a 6-5 eight-inning win. The triumphs moved KHS to 6-0 in District 4A-4 games. The three sweeps - Woodward, Western Heights and Anadarko - came against teams with a combined 0-24 district record. Kingfisher's remaining district slate against Elk City, Weatherford and Clinton see those teams have a combined 18-0 district mark to date.

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(Asiad) Koreas-football (Asiad) S. Korea lose to N. Korea in women's football quarterfinalsBy Yoo Jee-ho HANGZHOU, China, Sept. 30 (Yonhap) -- Shorthanded South Korea fell to North Korea 4-1 in the quarterfinals of the Asian Games women's football tournament Saturday. Ri Hak grabbed a brace, while An Myong-song and Kim Kyong-yong had a goal apiece for North Korea at Wenzhou Sports Centre Stadium in Wenzhou, some 300 kilometers southeast of the main host city, Hangzhou. South Korea, playing more than half the match down a player, crashed out early after winning three bronze medals in a row from 2010 to 2018.

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MANILA, Philippines — Djanel Cheng provided brilliant plays as Petro Gazz's balanced attack spoiled the Premier Volleyball League debut of Foton, 25-23, 22-25, 25-22, 25-20, in the 2023 Invitational Conference on Thursday at FilOil EcoOil Centre in San Juan City. After losing their first game against the Cignal HD Spikers two days ago, the Angels showed their collective effort behind the 20 excellent sets and eight points of Cheng, who was fresh from her Philippine women's volleyball team with Aiza Maizo-Pontillas last week in the AVC Challenge Cup.

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Benjamin F. Edwards & Company Inc. raised its position in shares of First Trust Indxx NextG ETF (NASDAQ:NXTG – Free Report) by 1.7% in the 1st quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the SEC. The fund owned 42,193 shares of the company's stock after buying an additional 700 shares during […] The post Benjamin F. Edwards & Company Inc. Grows Stock Holdings in First Trust Indxx NextG ETF (NASDAQ:NXTG) first appeared on Daily Political .

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Black Diamond Financial LLC acquired a new position in shares of Mastercard Incorporated ( NYSE:MA – Get Rating ) in the fourth quarter, according to its most recent disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm acquired 667 shares of the credit services provider's stock, valued at approximately $232,000. A number of other hedge funds and other institutional investors also recently made changes to their positions in MA. Bornite Capital Management LP acquired a new stake in shares of Mastercard during the 1st quarter worth about $21,442,000.

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CS Tan 4.9 / 5.0 This book is the result of the author's many years of experience and observation throughout his 26 years in the stockbroking industry. It was written for general public to learn to invest based on facts and not on fantasies or hearsay....

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Chairman of National Heart Institute (IJN) Holdings Datuk Seri Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad (two, left) attending the tree-planting pomp as significant benchmarking on its ongoing expansion journey with a topping out ceremony at IJN today. KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 15 (Bernama) -- The National Heart Institute (IJN) reached a benchmark achievement in its ongoing expansion journey with a 'topping out' ceremony, signalling the centre's spirit of ongoing improvement in serving its patients and the wider community.

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Covenant ( COVN ) traded up 3.6% against the U.S. dollar during the twenty-four hour period ending at 17:00 PM ET on July 9th. One Covenant token can currently be purchased for approximately $0.23 or 0.00000756 BTC on major cryptocurrency exchanges. Covenant has a market capitalization of $20.25 million and approximately $131,984.11 worth of Covenant was traded on exchanges in the last day. Over the last seven days, Covenant has traded down 5.6% against the U.S. dollar. Here is how related cryptocurrencies have performed over the last day: KILT Protocol (KILT) traded 8.

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Halliburton ( NYSE:HAL – Get Rating ) was the recipient of a large increase in short interest in the month of March. As of March 31st, there was short interest totalling 27,010,000 shares, an increase of 8.3% from the March 15th total of 24,930,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 9,580,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.8 days. Halliburton Trading Down 1.4 % NYSE:HAL traded down $0.47 on Friday, reaching $33.40. 10,336,960 shares of the stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 8,591,772.

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BANGKOK – The Excise Department plans to impose a carbon tax on the energy, transport and industrial sectors to help Thailand achieve its goals of carbon neutrality by 2050 and net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2063, as well as cut the cost of imported fuel. The carbon tax will encourage more companies to use cleaner or renewable energy and reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by up to 30 percent, said Nutthakorn Utensute, director of the Tax Planning Bureau of the Finance Ministry's Excise Department.

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BlackRock MuniYield Fund, Inc. ( NYSE:MYD – Get Rating ) announced a monthly dividend on Friday, March 3rd, Wall Street Journal reports. Investors of record on Wednesday, March 15th will be given a dividend of 0.0365 per share by the financial services provider on Monday, April 3rd. This represents a $0.44 annualized dividend and a yield of 4.14%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, March 14th. BlackRock MuniYield Fund Trading Down 0.7 % MYD opened at $10.58 on Friday. BlackRock MuniYield Fund has a fifty-two week low of $9.

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Four bodies of possible victims of the armed conflict in central Colombia are recoveredA handout photo made available by the Unit for the Search for Persons Reported as Disappeared (UBPD) showing a group of UBPD investigators while searching for bodies in Lejanias, department of Meta, Colombia, 21 July 2023. The Unit for the Search for Missing Persons (UBPD) reported this 21 July that it had recovered four bodies of possible victims of the armed conflict who were buried more than 30 years ago in a rural area of the municipality of Lejanías, in the Colombian department of Meta (center).

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Jung Hae-in takes a selfie with a fan. —PHOTOS COURTESY OF VIU PHILIPPINES Time really does fly when you're having fun. This sentiment, I feel, strongly resonates with Hallyu star Jung Hae-in, who celebrated his 10th year in the entertainment industry with a heartwarming fan meet titled 'The 10th Season' at the New Frontier Theater last Aug 6. In many ways, the event served as a beautiful reminder of how far he has come since his first foray into the Korean entertainment industry. The 35-year-old actor debuted in 2014 via the series 'Bride of the Century.

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13:52 UTC+8, 2023-04-08        Maryland's top prosecutor on Wednesday accused Catholic Church officials in Baltimore of engaging in a yearslong cover-up of the sexual abuse of 600-plus children.   13:52 UTC+8, 2023-04-08        Maryland's top prosecutor on Wednesday accused Catholic Church officials in Baltimore of engaging in a yearslong cover-up of the sexual abuse of 600-plus children, some of whom were "preyed upon by multiple abusers over decades," according to an NBC report.

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The National Privacy Commission (NPC) on Thursday said that it signed an agreement with the Philippines' three leading telecommunications companies to forming a joint task force aimed at ensuring protection of personal data. The data privacy watchdog said that the agreement was signed last Wednesday by NPC chair John Henry Naga and representatives from DITO Telecommunity Corp., Globe Telecom Inc. and Smart Communications Inc. The NPC said it would serve as the secretariat of the task force which aims to foster coordination, communication and implementation of the parties' respective obligations regarding data privacy and protection.

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Taylor Swift officially tied the knot with Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce on Friday.

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FILE - Milos Raonic, of Canada, holds his runner's up trophy after being beaten by Andy Murray, of Britain, in the men's singles final on the fourteenth day of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London, July 10, 2016. Raonic is one of several players who recently returned to the tennis tour after time away, helping make this the year of comebacks at the 2023 U.S. Open, which was scheduled to begin in New York on Monday, Aug, 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File) FILE PHOTO

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He was speaking at the conclusion of the two-day SDG Summit at UN Headquarters, where world leaders adopted a political declaration to ramp up progress to achieve the 17 goals, which are in danger of derailment due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and other global crises. Goals that address hunger, health, biodiversity, strong institutions, pollution, and peaceful societies are all off-track. Words into action "Now is the time to lift the declaration's words off the page, and invest in development at scale like never before," he said .

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