[UNFPA] Erbil. Iraq/United Nations -- A 35-year-old pregnant woman came to our clinic with abdominal pain," recalled Hawrin Yousif, a 27-year-old midwife in the Khazir displacement camp in the Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq. "After conducting a medical check-up, I understood that she had been ...

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[UNFPA] United Nations -- Fully investing in midwives by 2035 would avert roughly two-thirds of maternal, newborn deaths and stillbirths, saving 4.3 million lives per year...

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April 2021 marks an unusually strong month for dividend paying firms in the U.S. stock market, which is especially true if you look at year-over-year comparisons. Let's get straight to the month's dividend metadata:

2,019 U.S. firms declared dividends in April 2021, a decline of 1,160 from the 3,...

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Hydrogen is set to play a key role in achieving carbon-neutral mining, an industry that is being touted as a key enabler of the global hydrogen industry, Engie Impact consultant Jasper Schrijvers said during a virtual presentation at this years Energy Mines Africa conference. During his ...

http://www.miningweekly.com/article/mining-sector-key-to-kickstarting-hydrogen-industry-says-consultant-2021-05-05

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* Central bank holds key rate at record low 0.50%, as
expected...

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KUALA LUMPUR, May 5 Bursa Malaysia continued in the negative territory at mid-afternoon, dragged down by selling in selected heavyweight and blue-chip counters. At 3.07pm, the FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI (FBM KLCI) fell 4.8 points to 1,583.45 from...

At 3.07pm, the FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI (FBM KLCI...

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MILAN (AP) - The Stellantis automotive company created out of the merger of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and PSA Peugeot reported Wednesday a 14% increase in first-quarter revenues, despite a drop in production due to the semiconductor shortage...

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The Little Mix star shared a series of pictures of her baby bump on her social media accounts on Tuesday to reveal the good news...

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/leigh-anne-pinnock-debuts-baby-bump-little-mix-bandmates-congratulate-1690044

The ban would directly affect several Navalny allies who have announced plans to run for the State Duma, including senior aide Lyubov Sobol...

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The government also said that keeping in mind the fact that media organisations have been continuously working since the pandemic started, they could be called frontline warriors...

https://www.financialexpress.com/lifestyle/health/covid-19-up-govt-to-vaccinate-journalists-family-members-on-priority-to-set-up-special-inoculation-centres/2246194/

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Earlier, the states of Punjab, West Bengal, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar had declared journalists as frontline workers...

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[This Day] During the lockdown occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic in the country last year, the Lagos State Government recorded a number domestic violence among spouses, with 48 men and 378 women assaulted in 2020...

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Volkswagen used the 2016 Paris motor show to set out its vision for an alternatively fuelled future by revealing its all-electric ID.3 concept to an assembled media gathering (remember them?). Four years later, the ID.3 emerged in showrooms across Europe marking a step-change for the carmaker. It ...

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Drugmaker Mundipharma
International Ltdowned by the billionaire American Sackler
family, has kicked off the sale of its China unit in a deal that
could fetch more than $1 billion, people familiar with the
situation told Reuters...

https://www.reuters.com/article/mundipharma-china-sale/sackler-owned-mundipharma-seeks-bids-for-china-unit-in-over-1-bln-deal-sources-idUSL4N2MS0RC

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For information on fixed term services available read below. Learn the difference between fixed term and month-to-month agreements 4) TELUS Boost Wi-Fi Starter Expansion Kit with TV Internet Signup Offer: Offer subject to change without notice, while quantities last and cannot be combined...

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In order to ease the process for vaccination and locate nearest locations, the WhatsApp chatbot- MyGov Corona Helpdesk will help people look for locations where inoculation is being done...

https://www.financialexpress.com/industry/technology/how-to-find-nearest-covid-19-vaccination-centre-on-whatsapp/2246179/

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Turkey's New "Enfant Terrible" Role Baffles Even The Region's Experts

Authored by Martin Jay via The Strategic Culture Foundation,

How did the mercurial Recep Erdogan get himself into the military geopolitical wrangle that hes in both with the Pentagon and Russia?

April was quite a month for ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/turkeys-new-enfant-terrible-role-baffles-even-regions-experts

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Majority aren't GDPR compliant and Google Play categorises them badly, leading to lax practices Hundreds of millions of women turn to fertility apps to conceive or prevent pregnancy, and according to a new study those apps may leak very personal information including miscarriages, abortions, sexual ...

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European stocks bounced back on Wednesday
after a sharp selloff in the previous session, as surging
commodity prices lifted mining stocks, while the earnings season
kept its positive momentum, brightening the mood in the markets...

https://www.reuters.com/article/europe-stocks/european-stocks-rebound-after-selloff-miners-jump-idUSL4N2MS1B2

#Reuters

The Scottish parliamentary elections are today. What will be the effect on GDP? Here is their view, courtesy of eFXdata: MUFG Research flagsthe Scottish parliamentary elections on Thursdayas an important event risk for the pound this week. The pro-independence parties of the SNP (68), Alba ...

https://www.forexcrunch.com/gbp-scottish-parliamentary-elections-on-thursday-could-trigger-initial-pound-selling-mufg/

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Spanish renewable power group
Opdenergy has shelved an initial public offering (IPO) due to
volatility among green power stocks, just days before its shares
were set to start trading, it said on Wednesday, confirming an
earlier Reuters report...

https://www.reuters.com/article/spain-ipo-renewables-opdenergy/update-1-spains-opdenergy-shelves-ipo-as-green-power-stocks-wobble-idUSL1N2MS09K

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Copper prices surpassed the key
psychological level of $10,000 a tonne on Wednesday on hopes for
further global economic recovery, but trading volume was tepid
due to China market holidays...

https://www.reuters.com/article/global-metals/metals-copper-hits-10000-t-on-global-economic-recovery-hopes-idUSL1N2MS0D2

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What is the technical outlook for USD/CHF in the near-term? Credit Suisse discusses USD/CHF technical outlook andadopts a bullish bias in the near-term. We stay bullish, with a break above the .9196 resistance needed to confirm an important low is in place for a resumption of the uptrend, ...

https://www.forexcrunch.com/usd-chf-staying-bullish-a-break-above-0-9196-to-confirm-resumption-of-uptrend-credit-suisse/

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Thailand's central bank left its
key interest rate unchanged at a record low of 0.50% on
Wednesday, as expected, preserving its limited ammunition as the
economy struggles with a third wave of coronavirus infections...

https://www.reuters.com/article/thailand-economy-rates/thai-c-bank-keeps-policy-rate-at-record-low-as-widely-expected-idUSLUN2JI00Y

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BROADWAY STARS RAISING MONEY TO FIGHT LOU GEHRIG'S DISEASE LOS ANGELES (AP) - Some of Broadway's biggest stars have teamed up to pay tribute to the late three-time Tony Award-nominated actor Rebecca Luker - and raise money to fight Lou Gehrig's disease...

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Arsenal welcomed back Kieran Tierney and Alexandre Lacazette to training ahead of their second leg Europa League semifinal clash against Villarreal on Thursday...

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/arsenal-vs-villarreal-mikel-artetas-selection-headache-europa-clash-after-double-boost-1690046

A micro flash crash shook financial markets this week. Are well established FTSE 100 stocks immune from intermittent market declines?
The post Stock market investing: should I worry about a FTSE flash crash? appeared first on The Motley Fool UK.

The US and European stock markets suffered a micro ...

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Writer-director Carlos V. Gutierrezs Locked In is not to be confused with 2017s Locked In, nor 2010s Locked In, nor the numerous short films that have also used that title in the past two decades. Nonetheless, this low-budget potboilers common moniker is emblematic of its generally generic nature. A...

https://variety.com/2021/film/reviews/locked-in-review-1234966209/

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Netflixs coming-of-age documentary Audible, which world premiered this week at Hot Docs Film Festival, follows Maryland School for the Deaf high school athlete Amaree McKenstry and his close friends during their senior year. Director Matt Ogens speaks to Variety about the film, whose exec producers ...

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Tales from less-conventional bunkers at the height of the pandemic Covid Logfile II Darren Ellis spent eight weeks of 2020 quarantined in hotel rooms. James McParlane spent seven months of the year in a Croatian castle. Bruce Davie and Josh Odgers spent 111 days unable to travel more than five ...

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Who is worse? Crazy Nancy or Crooked Hillary? the House GOP asked in one fundraising email, taking aim at Clinton's podcast in another.Who is worse? Crazy Nancy or Crooked Hillary? the House GOP asked in one fundraising email, taking aim at Clinton's podcast in another...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2021/05/05/gop-uses-hillary-clinton-to-fundraise-as-biden-proves-difficult-target/

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GENEVA (AP) - Ambassadors from World Trade Organization countries on Wednesday plan to discuss trade rules protecting the technological know-how behind COVID-19 vaccines amid growing pressure on rich nations to relax them as a way to help developing countries fight the pandemic...

https://apnews.com/article/europe-technology-intellectual-property-global-trade-health-3390ac3f9e8f5a908243c666a5aaad8c

#APNews

Draft offer documents filed with SEBI reveal that till the end of 2020, Zomato has not managed to turn profitable...

https://www.financialexpress.com/market/ipo-news/zomato-ipo-retail-investor-quota-may-be-small-as-firm-is-yet-to-start-making-profit/2246149/

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