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'The full puzzle': Fleischmann already funded nuclear in Oak Ridge. Now, the military, too

Knox News 23 Apr 2024

That's $140 million more than last year's funding.$255 million for the ORNL Leadership Computing Facility, the home of Frontier, the world’s fastest supercomputer ... We live in a very dangerous world. I step back and I assess the world threat.

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Facing pressure from rights groups, World Bank suspends funding for Tanzania tourism project

Newsday 23 Apr 2024

KAMPALA, Uganda — The World Bank has suspended funding for a tourism project in Tanzania that caused the suffering of tens of thousands of villagers, according to a U.S.-based rights group that has long urged the global lender to take such action.

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Oprah Winfrey, Dwayne Johnson pledged $10M for Maui wildfire survivors. They raised almost $60 million

Pittsburgh Tribune Review 23 Apr 2024

All of them, except one adult son, have since received six monthly payments of $1,200 directly in their bank accounts from the People’s Fund ... In total, the fund raised $189 million from more than 250,000 people all over the world ... U.S./World.

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Oprah Winfrey and Dwayne Johnson pledged $10M for Maui wildfire survivors

Sun Star 23 Apr 2024

All of them, except one adult son, have since received six monthly payments of $1,200 directly in their bank accounts from the People's Fund ... In total, the fund raised $189 million from more than 250,000 people all over the world.

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Oprah Winfrey and Dwayne Johnson pledged $10M for Maui wildfire survivors. They gave much more.

Chicago Tribune 23 Apr 2024

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World Bank Board to Give Final Approval for Nigeria’s $2.25bn Financing Request in June

This Day 23 Apr 2024

The Board of the World Bank would meet in June ... Edun, announced the financing request at the end of the just-concluded Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank on Sunday.

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Malaria: Why aren't case numbers falling?

Hindustan Times 23 Apr 2024

With billions of dollars in funding from global organizations like the World Health Organization and World Bank, partners started dispersing mosquito bed nets and indoor insecticide sprays in affected regions.

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Việt Nam - an enticing destination for foreign investors: IMF expert

Vietnam News 23 Apr 2024

... well-educated human resources, said Paulo Medas, head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) team to Việt Nam at the Annual Meetings of the IMF and the World Bank Group (WB) held recently in the US.

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Ex-British Envoy Urges Nigeria to Reject IMF’s Projected Low Economic Ranking

This Day 23 Apr 2024

The Fund in its recent World Economic Outlook as reported by Bloomberg, estimated Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at $253 billion behind South Africa, $373 billion; Egypt, $348 billion; and Algeria, $267 billion.

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What ‘rejecting all’ means for funding open journalism

AOL 23 Apr 2024

And with the ongoing challenges the world is facing, and the pressures on news business models, this advertising money remains crucial to funding hundreds of journalists so that we can deliver ...

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No hurdles to US$360m tranche – Mission Chief assures

B & FT Online 23 Apr 2024

The IMF Mission Chief was addressing Ghanaian journalists on the country’s fund-assisted programme on the side-lines of the IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings that ended over the weekend.

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PM says investments in weapons companies meet ethical criteria

AOL 23 Apr 2024

The Prime Minister said the world is “the most dangerous it has been” since the end of the Cold War as he promised an extra £75 billion in defence spending by 2030.

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Profits of Doom

The Daily Sceptic 23 Apr 2024

The Rockefellers, for example, are alleged to have funded both Nazi eugenics research programmes and the United Nations’ Third World population reduction programmes in the early days of the green ...

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City allots $2.6M in state funds from opioid settlement

The Buffalo News 23 Apr 2024

Save the Michaels of the World will fund a housing program for women coming out of addiction treatment with a $500,000 grant it received Friday from the City of Buff alo ....

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