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Insight: African tech startups aim to power growing economies

YoopyaNov 11, 2013January 31, 20240

(Reuters) – When Abasiama Idaresit started a digital marketing firm in Nigeria’s bustling economic capital three years ago, he quickly learned how brutal life can

Venezuela arrests looters, store bosses in economic war

YoopyaNov 11, 2013January 31, 20240

(Reuters) – President Nicolas Maduro’s government announced arrests of both store managers and looters on Sunday as part of what it calls an “economic war”

For many Fukushima evacuees, the truth is they won’t be going home

YoopyaNov 11, 2013January 31, 20240

(Reuters) – For many of Japan’s oldest nuclear refugees, all they want is to be allowed back to the homes they were forced to abandon.

Philippines storm kills estimated 10,000, destruction hampers rescue efforts

YoopyaNov 11, 2013January 31, 20240

(Reuters) – Rescue workers struggled to reach ravaged towns and villages in the central Philippines on Monday as they tried to deliver aid to survivors

Syrian opposition agrees to participate in Geneva peace talks

YoopyaNov 11, 2013January 31, 20240

(Reuters) – – The Western-backed Syrian opposition agreed to participate in international peace talks in Geneva, the Syrian National Coalition said in a statement early

Israel rejects mooted interim Iran nuclear deal, Kerry heads to talks

YoopyaNov 8, 2013January 31, 20240

(Reuters) – Israel rejected out of hand on Friday a mooted deal between world powers and Iran, just as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry prepared

Palestinians: Israel only suspect in Arafat death

YoopyaNov 8, 2013February 14, 20240

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Israel is the only suspect in the 2004 death of Yasser Arafat, the chief Palestinian investigator in the case said

At 50 percent efficacy the RTS,S malaria vaccine will not be a stand-alone solution

YoopyaNov 8, 2013June 26, 20230

Scientists in Africa are in the final stages of trials for a malaria vaccine that’s raising hopes of reducing child infections – and deaths –

US to lose vote at UNESCO, incurs debts

YoopyaNov 8, 2013March 3, 20240

PARIS (AP) — American influence in culture, science and education around the world is facing a high-profile blow Friday as the U.S. is stripped of

Super typhoon Haiyan slams into central Philippines, millions flee

YoopyaNov 8, 2013March 3, 20240

(Reuters) – The strongest typhoon in the world this year and possibly the most powerful ever to hit land battered the central Philippines on Friday,