Just hours after WHO (World Health Organization) declared Sierra Leone’s most recent Ebola outbreak over, there are reports that two people have tested positive for the virus in Leone’s neighboring country of Guinea: Four people were tested and two of them were found to have Ebola, a government agency spokesman said. They were all from Korokpara, a village where three people from the same family have died in the past few weeks from diarrhea and vomiting.
Analyzing provincial statistics in Canada is an exercise in spotting the odd one out.
Alberta, the heart of Canada’s dying oil patch, is a cautionary tale about boom and bust cycles and just how dramatic the difference can be between the good times and the bad.
The Saudi-led air strikes on a market in Norther Yemen killed 119 people, nearly three times the number previously reported, the United Nations said Thursday. The UNICEF children’s agency said that among those killed in the Mastaba district on Tuesday were 22 children, while another 47 people were wounded. Press TV reports: The UN children’s agency in a statement strongly denounced the deadly airstrikes.
The Fed's cowardly "hold" sparked an avalanche of Yuan buying, USD selling this afternoon, squeezing shorts enough to dissolve the last 3 days of weakness. The 450 pips rip was the biggest since early February as for the 2nd time in a week (ECB and Fed) Yuan shorts have been taken to the cleaners...
For now Chinese trading is 'stable' with CNH leaking lower (just as it did after The ECB escapade).
Argentina has announced that one of its warships sank a Chinese-flagged boat that was fishing illegally in Argentinian national waters. They said that four people on the boat were rescued and arrested as sailors shot holes into the boat’s hull, causing it to sink. China has meanwhile expressed its serious concern to Argentina and the government has called for an investigation. Al Jazeera reports: The navy statement said on Tuesday that the boat was intercepted a day earlier off the coast of Puerto Madryn, about 1,460km south of Buenos Aires.