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Gulf stock prices rebound modestly

Gulf stock prices rebound modestly

-- 2018-08-14 15:36:41

Gulf stock prices rebounded modestly early on Tuesday from several days of falls, as investors were encouraged to buy back cautiously with the Turkish lira. Dubai’s stock index gained 0.6 per c...

Taliban attack at Afghan army base kills 17 soldiers

Taliban attack at Afghan army base kills 17 soldiers

-- 2018-08-14 15:29:05

The spokesman for the Defence Ministry in Kabul says the Taliban have overrun a military base in northern Afghanistan, killing 17 soldiers and wounding at least 19 troops. Ghafor Ahmad Jawed says the...

UK jobless rate falls to lowest since 1975

UK jobless rate falls to lowest since 1975

-- 2018-08-14 15:23:01

Britain’s unemployment rate fell to its lowest since 1975 during the second quarter (Q2) and productivity picked up, but wage growth slowed, official data showed on Tuesday. The number of Eur...

Indian shares rise in line with Asian peers

Indian shares rise in line with Asian peers

-- 2018-08-14 14:29:14

Indian shares rose on Tuesday, in line with broader Asian peers, helped by financial and technology stocks as trade anxiety stemming from a plunge in the Turkish lira showed signs of easing. Turkey&r...

Car crashes into barriers outside UK parliament, driver held

Car crashes into barriers outside UK parliament, driver held

-- 2018-08-14 14:09:08

A number of people were injured when a car collided with security barriers outside London’s parliament building on Tuesday and the driver was arrested, police said. Police said they could not i...

Australian archbishop begins home detention for concealing child abuse

Australian archbishop begins home detention for concealing child abuse

-- 2018-08-14 13:09:19

A former Australian archbishop, the most senior Catholic cleric in the world convicted of concealing child sex abuse, was spared jail on Tuesday when he was ordered to serve his one-year sentence at h...

China's economy cools further,  investment growth at record low

China's economy cools further, investment growth at record low

-- 2018-08-14 12:02:35

China’s economy is showing further signs of cooling as the US prepares to impose even tougher trade tariffs, with investment in the first seven months of the year slowing to a record low and ret...

Asia tries to find its footing, China disappoints

Asia tries to find its footing, China disappoints

-- 2018-08-14 10:12:32

Asian share markets fought to regain their footing on Tuesday as tremors from the collapse of the Turkish lira ebbed, though sentiment took a fresh knock when Chinese economic data proved softer than...

Nigerian troops protest against redeployment in restive region

Nigerian troops protest against redeployment in restive region

-- 2018-08-13 16:08:20

Nigerian troops staging a protest at the airport in the northeastern city of Maiduguri on Sunday shot into the air for around four hours, soldiers and local people said. There were no reports of any...

Spanish festival platform collapse injures hundreds

Spanish festival platform collapse injures hundreds

-- 2018-08-13 13:45:17

Hundreds of people were hurt, five seriously, when a wooden platform collapsed at a seaside music festival in north-western Spain on Sunday night, state television RTVE reported. There were no report...

Bank of Israel predicts 3.5pc GDP in 2019

Bank of Israel predicts 3.5pc GDP in 2019

-- 2018-08-13 13:22:44

The Bank of Israel predicted 3.5 per cent gross domestic product (GDP) for 2019, as the economy is more inclined to export and less to private consumption. The economy appeared to be more balanced...

Singapore's Q2 GDP grows 3.9pc

Singapore's Q2 GDP grows 3.9pc

-- 2018-08-13 13:04:11

Singapore's economy increased 3.9 per cent year on year in the second quarter (Q2), easing from the 4.5 per cent growth in the first quarter, the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) announced on Mond...

SE Asian stocks low as Indonesian shares plunge

SE Asian stocks low as Indonesian shares plunge

-- 2018-08-13 12:40:18

Southeast Asian share markets were mostly lower on Monday as Indonesian shares plummeted in their worst drop in nearly two years as emerging market currencies faced a deep selloff. The Turkish lira a...

Asian shares, euro trampled as Turkish rout spreads

Asian shares, euro trampled as Turkish rout spreads

-- 2018-08-13 09:41:37

Asia share markets skidded and the euro hit one-year lows on Monday as a renewed rout in the Turkish lira infected the South African rand and drove demand for safe harbours, including the US dollar, S...

US urges UK to ditch support for Iran nuclear deal

US urges UK to ditch support for Iran nuclear deal

-- 2018-08-12 15:41:59

The United States urged Britain on Sunday to ditch its support for a 2015 nuclear deal with Iran and instead join forces with Washington to counter the global threat it says Tehran poses. Despite opp...

50 militants including Taliban commander surrender in Afghanistan

50 militants including Taliban commander surrender in Afghanistan

-- 2018-08-12 13:01:26

A total of 50 militants including Taliban key commander Mullah Toofan have surrendered to local authorities in the western Badghis province of Afghanistan on Sunday, police spokesman Naqibullah Amini...

Israeli Arabs rally against Jewish nation-state law

Israeli Arabs rally against Jewish nation-state law

-- 2018-08-12 12:25:23

Thousands of protesters rallied in Tel Aviv against Israel’s new law declaring it the nation-state of the Jewish people, legislation that has angered the country’s Arab minority and drawn...

German far-right leader pours cold water on Bannon’s anti-EU plan

German far-right leader pours cold water on Bannon’s anti-EU plan

-- 2018-08-12 11:53:47

A leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has poured cold water on plans by Steve Bannon, US President Donald Trump’s former political strategist, to forge a wide populist al...

Iran Revolutionary Guards kill 10 militants near Iraq border

Iran Revolutionary Guards kill 10 militants near Iraq border

-- 2018-08-11 15:52:38

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Saturday they had killed ten militants overnight in a security operation conducted in the northwest of the country near the border with Iraq, the official new...

North Korea detains Japanese citizen

North Korea detains Japanese citizen

-- 2018-08-11 15:47:45

A Japanese man has been detained in North Korea, and government officials are trying to gather information on his safety, the Asahi Shimbun reported on Saturday. The report, citing government sources...

Sudan ruling party backs Bashir as candidate for 2020 election

Sudan ruling party backs Bashir as candidate for 2020 election

-- 2018-08-11 14:23:44

Sudan’s ruling party says it will back its leader President Omar al-Bashir as a candidate in the 2020 election, state news agency SUNA reported on Friday, a move that would require a constitutio...

China auto imports jump on new tariff rates

China auto imports jump on new tariff rates

-- 2018-08-11 14:04:44

China's imports of automobiles jumped 72 per cent to 7.38 billion dollars in July after lower tariff rates went into effect, data from the General Administration of Customs showed. According to th...

Global equities little change

Global equities little change

-- 2018-08-11 12:05:46

A plunge in the Turkish lira rocked global equities and emerging markets on Friday and fear of further fallout sent investors scurrying for safety in assets like the yen and US government bonds. Eu...

US stocks slip amid Turkey woes

US stocks slip amid Turkey woes

-- 2018-08-11 11:22:00

Wall Street slipped on Friday as a deepening economic crisis in Turkey dragged on bank stocks and triggered fears that it could spread to other global economies. A drop in technology shares added to...

Romania anti-government protest turns violent

Romania anti-government protest turns violent

-- 2018-08-11 11:18:06

Tens of thousands of protesters rallied against the ruling Social Democrat (PSD) government on Friday in cities across Romania and the capital Bucharest where riot police fired tear gas into the crowd...

UK economy picks up some  speed, Brexit hurdles ahead

UK economy picks up some speed, Brexit hurdles ahead

-- 2018-08-11 00:41:40

Britain's economy picked up some speed in the second quarter after a sharp winter slowdown in early 2018 but lost momentum in June, underlining its stuttering performance ahead of Brexit in less than...

Japan Q2 GDP expands annualised 1.9pc

Japan Q2 GDP expands annualised 1.9pc

-- 2018-08-10 12:51:09

Japan's economy expanded at an annualised rate of 1.9 per cent in the April-June quarter (Q2), government data showed Friday. The preliminary data released by the Cabinet Office revealed that Japan's...

Nikkei slips as chip sector tumbles

Nikkei slips as chip sector tumbles

-- 2018-08-10 11:53:50

Japan’s Nikkei fell on Friday morning as semiconductor-related shares tumbled after Morgan Stanley downgraded its view on the US chip sector. The Nikkei share average dropped 0.4 per cent to...

Asian shares down following Wall St losses

Asian shares down following Wall St losses

-- 2018-08-10 11:46:22

Asian shares were lower on Friday, tracking losses on Wall Street, despite the release of data showing Japan's economy resumed its longtime expansion in the last quarter. Japan's Nikkei 225 index los...

Asian shares down on trade anxiety

Asian shares down on trade anxiety

-- 2018-08-10 10:35:06

Asian stock markets fell on Friday amid heightened global trade tensions, while currency markets were whipsawed by a searing selloff in Russia’s rouble after the United States slapped new sancti...