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Two Koreas hold military talks to reduce border tensions

Two Koreas hold military talks to reduce border tensions

-- 2018-06-14 10:59:13

The rival Koreas were holding rare high-level military talks Thursday to discuss reducing tensions across their heavily fortified border. It’s possible North Korean officials during the talks a...

European shares hesitant at open

European shares hesitant at open

-- 2018-06-13 16:10:24

Trading in European shares was hesitant early on Wednesday as the investors are awaited guidance from the Federal Reserve on future US rate rises. Benchmarks barely budged, with all the action at t...

Indian shares edge up on hopes of share buyback

Indian shares edge up on hopes of share buyback

-- 2018-06-13 16:09:41

Indian shares rose slightly or Wednesday, set for their third straight winning session, as top software services exporter Tata Consultancy Services Ltd gained on hopes that it would buy back stock....

UK inflation hits one-year low

UK inflation hits one-year low

-- 2018-06-13 16:08:20

British inflation unexpectedly stuck at a one-year low in May, though rising oil prices suggest a modest increase could be on its way, leaving the outlook for Bank of England interest rates finely...

French farmers halt oil refinery blockades

French farmers halt oil refinery blockades

-- 2018-06-13 15:49:32

France’s biggest agriculture union on Wednesday told its farmers to halt a blockade of refineries and fuel depots that had entered its third day on Wednesday over palm oil imports an unfair comp...

FBI agent faces assault charge after accidental dance floor shooting

FBI agent faces assault charge after accidental dance floor shooting

-- 2018-06-13 14:28:50

An off-duty FBI agent who accidentally shot a man while dancing in a Denver nightclub has been charged with second-degree assault. The agent, named by police as Chase Bishop, was performing a backfli...

US slaps sanctions on Cambodia PM’s top bodyguard

US slaps sanctions on Cambodia PM’s top bodyguard

-- 2018-06-13 13:11:11

The United States has imposed sanctions on the commander of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen’s bodyguard unit for alleged human rights abuses, the first member of the leader’s inner circle...

Six million struggling to get food in Africa’s Sahel: UN

Six million struggling to get food in Africa’s Sahel: UN

-- 2018-06-13 12:19:36

The UN humanitarian chief has warned that nearly 6 million people are struggling to get food in West Africa’s Sahel region and severe malnutrition is threatening the lives of 1.6 million childre...

China's ZTE shares plummet 39pc in resumed trade

China's ZTE shares plummet 39pc in resumed trade

-- 2018-06-13 11:22:30

Shares in Chinese technology company ZTE has plummeted 39 per cent in Hong Kong on Wednesday as trading in the firm resumed after a two-month suspension. In April, the US Commerce Department found ZT...

Asian shares fall after Trump-Kim summit

Asian shares fall after Trump-Kim summit

-- 2018-06-13 11:07:20

Asian share markets were mostly lower on Wednesday after a muted market response to the Trump-Kim summit. Investors have now turned their eyes to the trio of this week's central bank meetings. Japa...

Malaysia’s top two judges quit

Malaysia’s top two judges quit

-- 2018-06-13 10:26:49

Malaysia’s two most senior judges have resigned from their posts, as Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad’s government purges top officials seen close to the previous administration. The list...

China to launch $47b fund for investment in SEI

China to launch $47b fund for investment in SEI

-- 2018-06-12 14:37:03

China’s state planner said on Tuesday it would jointly launch with China Construction Bank 300 billion yuan ($46.88 billion) worth of funds for investment in Strategic Emerging Industries (SEI...

Boats collide in Russia World Cup host city, killing 10

Boats collide in Russia World Cup host city, killing 10

-- 2018-06-12 14:02:07

Ten people on a river cruise were killed when their boat collided with a tugboat late on Monday in the Russian city of Volgograd, which is hosting matches in the soccer World Cup, rescue services said...

Markets cautious before US-N Korea summit

Markets cautious before US-N Korea summit

-- 2018-06-12 12:20:44

Global markets were mostly cautious before US-North Korea summit on Tuesday, but dollar jumped after US President Donald Trump said the summit 'really very positive'. The dollar jumped to a three-w...

Asian shares inch up amid Trump-Kim summit

Asian shares inch up amid Trump-Kim summit

-- 2018-06-12 11:48:24

Asian shares were edged up on Tuesday but little changed as market players tried to digest the summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore. Japan's benchm...

Nigerian authority foils world cup child trafficking attempt

Nigerian authority foils world cup child trafficking attempt

-- 2018-06-12 11:32:25

Nigerian authorities say they have rescued nine young girls and one boy who were being trafficked to Russia. Five suspects, including a policeman and a quarantine officer, were arrested for allegedly...

Russia, Ukraine fail to agree on UN peacekeeping mission

Russia, Ukraine fail to agree on UN peacekeeping mission

-- 2018-06-12 11:07:21

The foreign ministers of Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France met in Berlin on Monday to discuss the implementation of a fragile ceasefire for Ukraine and the deployment of a UN peacekeeping mission in...

US opens de facto embassy in Taiwan

US opens de facto embassy in Taiwan

-- 2018-06-12 10:45:32

The United States unveiled a new $256 million representative office in Taiwan’s capital on Tuesday, a de facto embassy that underscores Washington’s strategic ties with the democratic, sel...

European shares jumps on ministers’ euro promise

European shares jumps on ministers’ euro promise

-- 2018-06-11 15:41:10

European shares jumped on Monday after Italy’s new economy minister promised to keep the country in the euro. Euro zone banks rose 1.5 per cent, helping the pan-European STOXX 600 gain 0.4 per...

US small plane crash kills four

US small plane crash kills four

-- 2018-06-11 14:56:21

Four people were killed when a small plane lost altitude, slammed into trees and caught fire in a field just north of an airport in southern Wisconsin in the United States on Sunday, authorities said....

French minister calls farmers’ move to block oil refineries ‘illegal’

French minister calls farmers’ move to block oil refineries ‘illegal’

-- 2018-06-11 14:10:11

France’s farm minister said on Monday that a decision by farmers to launch a blockade of oil refineries and fuel depots to protest a government decision to allow Total to use imported palm oil a...

Japan's machinery orders up 10.1pc in April

Japan's machinery orders up 10.1pc in April

-- 2018-06-11 12:46:14

Japan's core private-sector machinery orders increased 10.1 per cent in April from a month earlier, the government said in a report on Monday. According to the Cabinet Office, the orders, excluding...

Hong Kong jails pro-democracy activist for assaulting cops

Hong Kong jails pro-democracy activist for assaulting cops

-- 2018-06-11 11:34:12

A former rising star in Hong Kong’s radical youth opposition was sentenced to 6 years in jail on Monday for rioting and assaulting police, one of the city’s harshest sentences against a de...

Asia stocks edge up after G7 summit

Asia stocks edge up after G7 summit

-- 2018-06-11 10:45:36

Asia stocks shook off initial modest losses and edged up on Monday ahead of a US-North Korea summit that might ease regional tensions, while investors also started to focus on key central bank meeting...

Iran president criticises US ‘unilateralism’ over nuclear deal

Iran president criticises US ‘unilateralism’ over nuclear deal

-- 2018-06-10 16:08:41

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday criticised US ‘unliteralism’ in withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal and said he appreciated efforts by China and Russia to maintain the agreem...

Vietnam new economic zones spark protest; over a dozen detained

Vietnam new economic zones spark protest; over a dozen detained

-- 2018-06-10 13:22:44

Protests have broken out in Vietnam against plans for new economic zones, amid fears that Chinese investors will dominate the areas. Police reportedly detained more than a dozen people in the capital...

Japan bullet train attack leaves one dead

Japan bullet train attack leaves one dead

-- 2018-06-10 11:13:20

One man was killed and two others injured by an assailant with a bladed weapon on Japan’s Shinkansen bullet train on Saturday night, police said. Police arrested the suspect as the train stoppe...

Iran seeks more talks with Russia over US exit from nuclear deal

Iran seeks more talks with Russia over US exit from nuclear deal

-- 2018-06-09 15:08:26

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday he wanted more talks with Russia about what he called the ‘illegal’ US withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal.   Trump said last mont...

Manafort aide faces charges in Russia probe

Manafort aide faces charges in Russia probe

-- 2018-06-09 14:24:05

Special Counsel Robert Mueller has added more charges against Paul Manafort, the ex-chairman of the Trump 2016 campaign, and indicted a top aide. Russian citizen Konstantin Kilimnik - considered Mana...

China's May CPI up 1.8pc y/y

China's May CPI up 1.8pc y/y

-- 2018-06-09 13:24:08

China's consumer price index, a main gauge of inflation, rose 1.8 per cent year on year in May, the same as the CPI growth in April, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed Saturday...