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APD | Weekly top 10 hot news (Dec 31- Jan 06)

Every weekend, Asia Pacific Daily will provide you with a run-down of the latest hot news.This week, the following hot news you should know:Top 1 | My five pledges: UK

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Nigeria to spend $7.5 billion on petrol subsidy to mid-2023

Nigeria will keep its costly but popular petrol subsidy until mid-2023 and has set aside 3.36 trillion naira ($7.5 billion) to spend on it, Finance Minister Zainab Ahme

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A new NSO zero-click attack evades Apple’s iPhone security protections, says Citizen Lab

A Bahraini human rights activist’s iPhone was silently hacked earlier this year by a powerful spyware sold to nation-states, defeating new security protections that Apple designed to withstand c

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Nigeria's act to reopen borders ahead of AfCFTA implementation hailed

Undated photo provided by the Lekki Free Trade Zone shows people working at a factory inside the Lekki Free Trade Zone in Nigeria. /Xinhua Nigeria's decision to reopen its borders will facilit

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Nigeria's booming local oil sector under siege

Nigeria has overseen a huge growth of locally-owned and managed companies in its oil sector - but lower prices and the new coronavirus are threatening the transformation./Reuters Nigeria's eco

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IMF to consider Nigeria's $3.4 bln request next week

The International Monetary Fund to consider Nigeria's request for $3.4 billion in emergency financing to combat the impact of the coronavirus./REUTERS. The International Monetary Fund on Frida

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Xinhua Headlines: Africa strives to stay ahead of curve in COVID-19 battle

Amid a hike in the global caseload, African countries are waging all-out efforts against COVID-19 with lessons learned from the Ebola crisis. by Xinhua writers Olatunji Saliu and Cao Kai ABUJA, Marc

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Nigeria to slash 2020 budget following oil price fall

FILE PHOTO: Nigerian Finance Minister Zainab Ahmed attends the IMF and World Bank's 2019 Annual Spring Meetings, in Washington, U.S. /Reuters Nigeria's Minister of Finance Zainab Ahmed announc