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Mexico mulls $10m fine for poll victors

Mexico mulls $10m fine for poll victors

-- 2018-07-05 11:20:39

Mexican President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s party could face a $10 million fine for violations of campaign finance rules, the national electoral institute said on Wednesday following t...

Asian stocks wobbly before tariff  deadline in Sino-US trade row

Asian stocks wobbly before tariff deadline in Sino-US trade row

-- 2018-07-05 10:51:56

Asian stocks were shaky while major currencies barely budged in early trade on Thursday, as financial markets remained in a state of anxious uncertainty on the eve of a US deadline to slap tariffs on...

Ecuador orders arrest of former president Correa

Ecuador orders arrest of former president Correa

-- 2018-07-04 15:42:26

A court in Ecuador has ordered the arrest of former president Rafael Correa over his alleged involvement in the 2012 kidnapping of an opponent. Correa, who now lives in his wife's native Belgium, den...

UK shop prices edge down in June

UK shop prices edge down in June

-- 2018-07-04 14:22:07

British shop prices edged down in June but the slide was less sharply than in May, shoppers could take some comfort from that food price inflation did not accelerate, a survey showed on Wednesday. Th...

Indian shares little change

Indian shares little change

-- 2018-07-04 13:58:25

Indian share markets were little changed on Wednesday, as investors booked profits in sectors such as information technology, and caution prevailed ahead of key events during the week. The Indian g...

Asian shares fall after US stocks slide

Asian shares fall after US stocks slide

-- 2018-07-04 13:48:11

Asian stocks fell on Wednesday after US stocks succumbed to a sell-off in the final minutes of trading, snapping a three-day winning streak. Japan's Nikkei 225 index fell 0.3 per cent to 21,717.04...

Thai cave boys get dive lessons as rescuers plan for extraction

Thai cave boys get dive lessons as rescuers plan for extraction

-- 2018-07-04 13:47:33

Rescue teams in northern Thailand were giving crash courses in swimming and diving on Wednesday as part of preparations to extract a young soccer squad trapped in a cave and keen to end a harrowing 11...

Turkey issues decree transferring some powers to president

Turkey issues decree transferring some powers to president

-- 2018-07-04 12:08:40

Turkey issued a decree on Wednesday transferring some powers to the president, in line with its move to an executive presidential system resulting from last month’s presidential and parliamentar...

Malaysia’s Najib Razak pleads not guilty to graft charges

Malaysia’s Najib Razak pleads not guilty to graft charges

-- 2018-07-04 11:49:00

Malaysia’s former Prime Minister Najib Razak pleaded not guilty to criminal charges on Wednesday related to a probe into allegations of corruption at state fund 1MDB, less than two months after...

SA court summons Zuma’s son over fatal car crash

SA court summons Zuma’s son over fatal car crash

-- 2018-07-03 16:03:40

Former South African president Jacob Zuma’s son Duduzane has been summoned to appear in court next week to answer homicide charges over a fatal car crash in 2014. State prosecutors initially de...

Malaysia arrests ex-prime minister Najib Razak

Malaysia arrests ex-prime minister Najib Razak

-- 2018-07-03 15:39:57

Malaysian anti-corruption agents arrested former Prime Minister Najib Razak on Tuesday following a probe into how money went missing from a state fund he founded almost a decade ago and he was expecte...

Upcoming ABCC platform token to embrace bitcoin mining

Upcoming ABCC platform token to embrace bitcoin mining

FE Online Desk 2018-07-03 13:52:35

SINGAPORE - Media OutReach - July 3, 2018 - ABCC, the world-class cryptocurrency exchange, recently announced the issuance of its platform token, ABCC Token (AT), to reward its pla...

Kenya to prosecute county governor in graft case

Kenya to prosecute county governor in graft case

-- 2018-07-03 13:20:46

Kenya’s top prosecutor on Tuesday ordered that a county governor face charges including abuse of office and conspiracy to steal public funds, the latest move in the country’s anti-graft ca...

Germany's Seehofer drops threat to resign after talks with Merkel

Germany's Seehofer drops threat to resign after talks with Merkel

-- 2018-07-03 11:50:33

Germany’s interior minister Horst Seehofer dropped his threat to quit after hours of talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU), saying the two conservative parties ha...

Australian archbishop faces one-year detention for concealing child abuse

Australian archbishop faces one-year detention for concealing child abuse

-- 2018-07-03 11:40:01

A Catholic archbishop in Australia has been given a maximum sentence of 12 months in detention for concealing child sexual abuse in the 1970s. Philip Wilson, now archbishop of Adelaide, is the most s...

BOJ likely to cut inflation forecasts until next year

BOJ likely to cut inflation forecasts until next year

-- 2018-07-03 11:27:21

The Bank of Japan is likely to cut its inflation forecasts for this fiscal year and the year to March 2020 at a meeting later this month with price pressures remaining stubbornly weak, people with dir...

Asian shares falter on trade war fears

Asian shares falter on trade war fears

-- 2018-07-03 10:32:40

Asian shares dropped in tentative morning trade on Tuesday as sentiment remained fragile in the face of tense trade relations between the United States and major economies, with investors braced for a...

UK manufacturing growth steadies in June

UK manufacturing growth steadies in June

-- 2018-07-02 15:52:30

The manufacturing output of United Kingdom (UK) was steady in June but worries about global trade and Brexit knocked confidence about the outlook to a seven-month low, a survey showed on Monday. Th...

Philippine city mayor assassinated during flag-raising event

Philippine city mayor assassinated during flag-raising event

-- 2018-07-02 14:25:13

A Philippine provincial city mayor known for parading drug suspects in public but also alleged to have drug ties himself was shot and killed Monday during a flag-raising ceremony in front of horrified...

German interior minister offers to step down over migrants

German interior minister offers to step down over migrants

-- 2018-07-02 12:43:58

German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer has offered to resign as both minister and as chairman of Bavaria’s Christian Social Union at a closed meeting of the party’s presidency, party sour...

China losses weigh on Asian shares

China losses weigh on Asian shares

-- 2018-07-02 12:04:46

Asian share markets were burdened by fresh losses in China on Monday, while Mexico’s peso firmed as exit polls pointed to a decisive victory for presidential front-runner Andres Manuel Lopez Obr...

Mexico votes for new president, leftist rebel likely to win

Mexico votes for new president, leftist rebel likely to win

-- 2018-07-01 11:54:19

Mexicans vote for a new president on Sunday in an election tipped to hand power to an anti-establishment outsider who would inject a new dose of nationalism into government and could sharpen divisions...

Two Koreas reopen maritime communication channel

Two Koreas reopen maritime communication channel

-- 2018-07-01 10:58:03

North and South Korea reopened a maritime communication channel on Sunday, with vessels from the two countries making radio contact for the first time in a decade, South Korea’s Defence Ministry...

Mudslide kills five paramilitary troops in northeast India

Mudslide kills five paramilitary troops in northeast India

-- 2018-06-30 15:51:01

Five Indian paramilitary soldiers were killed and another six injured when huge boulders rolled down on their bus following a mudslide triggered by monsoon rains in India’s remote northeast, pol...

IMF approves $2b payment to Egypt

IMF approves $2b payment to Egypt

-- 2018-06-30 13:21:51

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved a 2 billion US dollar loan instalment for Egypt under a 12 billion dollar aid deal to support the country's economic reform. The latest loan, the...

Malaysia mulls amending human trafficking laws

Malaysia mulls amending human trafficking laws

-- 2018-06-30 12:49:31

Malaysia’s new government said on Saturday it is considering amending laws on human trafficking and migrant smuggling just days after the US State Department reported a lack of progress in the c...

World stocks rally after volatile week

World stocks rally after volatile week

-- 2018-06-30 12:14:28

Global stock markets rallied on Friday, with Wall Street seeing its record gains and European indexes recovering from a volatile week pegged to a growing US trade battle with other top global economie...

US stocks end up; declines for week

US stocks end up; declines for week

-- 2018-06-30 12:13:15

US stocks ended higher on Friday after Nike Inc and banking shares surged, though all three still posted weekly declines. Based on the latest available data, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 59....

US ambassador to Estonia quits over Trump’s anti-Europe remarks

US ambassador to Estonia quits over Trump’s anti-Europe remarks

-- 2018-06-30 10:51:03

The US ambassador to Estonia is resigning, reportedly in frustration at remarks made by President Donald Trump about America’s European allies. James D Melville revealed in a Facebook post that...

Mali militant attack kills six

Mali militant attack kills six

-- 2018-06-30 10:31:17

Islamist militants armed with rockets and explosives raided the headquarters of an African military taskforce in central Mali, leaving at least six people dead on Friday, a spokesman for the force sai...