Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov announced on Monday the creation of the Civic Platform party, saying however he is not going to become a member of it. full story ![]()
The final vote count from Pakistan's national elections has confirmed a big win for former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's party. The figures released by the country's election commission on Tuesday show that Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-N party will likely get a majority in the national assembly, setting him up to be prime minister for the third time. The commission says...
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Ekaterina Rybolovleva, daughter of Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev, has bought the island of Skorpios, in the Ionian Sea, west of Greece, valued at £100million.
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TELEVISION ads promoting Clive Palmer's new United Australia Party will air next week, but the billionaire is running out of time to register his party.
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MOSCOW/ATHENS (Reuters) - The daughter of Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev has bought the Greek resort island where shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis famously married Jacqueline Kennedy in the 1960s, Rybolovlev's investment office said.
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Anti-apartheid fighter Mamphela Ramphele forms party to "build the South Africa of our dreams"
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Academic and Black Conscious Movement co-founder Mamphela Ramphele has announced the creation of a new political party and is urging citizens to turn their backs on the 101-year-old African National Congress of Nelson Mandela and "join me in building the South Africa of our dreams."
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Hess announced on Monday it is selling its Russian subsidiary Samara-Nafta to Lukoil, expecting to pocket $1.8 billion from the transaction. The sale is at the center of several interesting narratives including hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer's activism in an attempt to break up the company, and implications of Hess being complicit with Russian mob organization Indeitsy,...
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Academic and Black Conscious Movement co-founder Mamphela Ramphele has announced the creation of a new political party and is urging citizens to turn their backs on the 101-year-old African National Congress of Nelson Mandela and "join me in building the South Africa of our dreams."
boston.com (3 months and 6 days ago)
JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- Academic and Black Conscious Movement co-founder Mamphela Ramphele has announced the creation of a new political party and is urging citizens to turn their backs on the 101-year-old African National Congress of Nelson Mandela and "join me in building the South Africa of our dreams."...
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Extraordinary scenes in the parliament building in Kiev as members of the Svoboda party fought with their rivals in the Communist party and the Party of Regions after the leader of the latter delivered a speech in Russian.
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