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Stories for November 11th 2017
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Saturday, November 11th 2017 - 12:30 UTC
Falklands ice hockey team in international tournament in Costa Rica
Costa Rica will be hosting the first Castillo International Ice Hockey Tournament with the participation of a home team, and three international sides, including one form the Falkland Islands. The competition is scheduled to take place at the Castillo Country Club in San Rafael de Heredia, on 18/19 November.
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Saturday, November 11th 2017 - 09:15 UTC
The Great October Revolution
By Gwynne Dyer - China Mieville, a novelist I much admire, has published a history of the October Revolution to mark its hundredth anniversary (which is actually on 7 November, since the Russians were still using the Julian calendar in 1917). It had an unusual effect on me. It made me question whether I was right about the utter futility of that revolution.
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Saturday, November 11th 2017 - 09:07 UTC
Fed member anticipates rates likely to rise next month and three times in 2018
United States interest rates are likely to rise again next month and a further three times next year, one of the Federal Reserve's rate-setters has said. John Williams, who sits on the lliams, advanced a rate rise in December “makes sense, at least based on the information I have today”.
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Saturday, November 11th 2017 - 08:55 UTC
YPF will relocate investment from natural gas to crude oil, because of changes in subsidies policy
Argentina's state-run oil company YPF is “disappointed” by cuts to the government's natural gas production subsidies and will re-allocate investment toward crude oil production.
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Saturday, November 11th 2017 - 08:46 UTC
Argentina cancels proposed tax on wine included in a fiscal reform
Argentina’s government has decided to ditch a proposed tax on wine after vineyards complained the measure would cripple the industry, the governor of the country’s top wine-making province said.
