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-- 2018-04-16 11:38:51
A court in the self-declared republic of Somaliland has sentenced a young poet to three years in jail. Nacima Qorane was found guilty of bringing the state into contempt by advocating for Somaliland...
-- 2018-04-16 10:19:09
Asian share markets were mixed and oil prices fell on Monday as relief from US-led strikes on Syria looked unlikely to escalate was tempered by concerns at Russia’s potential reaction to new san...
-- 2018-04-16 00:00:00
China likely carried most of its strong economic momentum from last year into the first quarter of 2018, with government crackdowns on financial risks and industrial pollution dragging less on activit...
-- 2018-04-15 13:59:55
An Air China flight bound for Beijing made an unscheduled landing in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou on Sunday after a passenger threatened a flight attendant with a fountain pen. The country&r...
-- 2018-04-15 12:39:42
The London Stock Exchange has appointed a new chief executive to replace Xavier Rolet, who quit last November amid a bruising boardroom row. David Schwimmer, who has spent 20 years at investment bank...
-- 2018-04-15 11:50:46
A fierce fire broke out at an apartment building fire in east China’s Jiangsu Province early Sunday, killing five people and wounding four others, local authorities said. The building in Huhe v...
-- 2018-04-15 11:27:54
Militants disguised as UN peacekeepers exploded two suicide car bombs and fired dozens of rockets at the French and United Nations bases in Mali’s northern city of Timbuktu on Saturday, killing...
-- 2018-04-15 11:04:30
A mild earthquake measuring 4.3 on the Richter scale has shaken Myanmar’s Yangon region early Sunday morning, according to the Meteorology and Hydrology Department. With an epicentre of 30.6 km...
-- 2018-04-15 10:47:35
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group said four of its members were killed in an apparent accidental blast in the Gaza Strip on Saturday. The group said in a statement that it was “mourn...
-- 2018-04-14 15:15:50
WASHINGTON: The US Treasury added India to its watch list of countries with potentially questionable foreign exchange policies, joining China and four others, according to a report issued Friday, acco...
-- 2018-04-14 11:59:10
Greece's annual EU-harmonised inflation rate slowed in March, the reading in March was 0.2 per cent from 0.4 per cent in February, statistic service ELSTAT data showed on Friday. The data also showed...
-- 2018-04-13 15:24:01
The Central Reserve Bank of Peru (CRBP), the central bank of the South American country, held the benchmark interest rate at 2.75 percent as expected on Thursday, reports Reuters. A majority of ana...
-- 2018-04-13 15:07:00
European shares were mostly flat at the opening on Friday, holding near one-month highs at the end of a week laden with geopolitical worries, while results disappointments drove some sharp moves. The...
-- 2018-04-13 11:08:34
Asia stocks pared early gains on Friday as caution crept in ahead of the US earnings season and as investors weighed the possible impact on global growth from a tariff spat between the United States a...
-- 2018-04-13 10:51:45
US stocks rose on Thursday as investors anticipated a strong earnings season and as US President Donald Trump's suggestion that a military strike on Syria may not be imminent ratcheted down geopolit...
-- 2018-04-12 16:05:36
Former Catalan education minister Clara Ponsati was greeted by about 100 flag-waving supporters when she arrived in a Scottish court on Thursday to fight extradition to Spain where she is wanted for h...
-- 2018-04-12 15:50:01
The Bank of Korea (BOK), the central bank of South Korea, has forecasted 3.0 per cent economic growth for the country. The BOK on Thursday forecasted that the country's gross domestic product (GDP)...
-- 2018-04-12 15:21:06
Gulf markets mostly dropped at the opening on Thursday as fears of an imminent strike on Syria unsettled bourses globally, but Saudi Arabian stocks stabilised after their sell-off late on the previo...
-- 2018-04-12 14:29:33
The UN says protesters who placed corpses in front of their headquarters in the Central African Republic (CAR) were using the bodies for ‘propaganda’. “Some people are using dead bo...
-- 2018-04-12 14:06:46
Yulia Skripal, who was poisoned in Britain last month along with her father, a former Russian spy, has said she did not wish to take up the offer of assistance from the Russian embassy in London. In...
-- 2018-04-12 11:39:53
Middle East carrier Kuwait Airways said on Thursday it had stopped all flights to Beirut after a warning about flying close to Lebanese airspace. The security warning came from Cyprus authorities, th...
-- 2018-04-12 11:25:52
US House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan will not run for re-election this year, in a big blow to Republicans with mid-term elections looming. Congress’ most powerful lawmaker said he woul...
-- 2018-04-12 11:12:56
Seven people have been confirmed dead and 13 people were wounded after a blast hit a truck loaded with explosives in northwest China’s Shaanxi Province. The explosion occurred around 11:50 pm o...
-- 2018-04-12 11:08:47
Japanese shares fell sharply on Thursday morning after Wall Street weakened on worries about possible US military action against Syria, while the retail sector stocks were driven by earnings news....
-- 2018-04-12 10:02:26
Asian stocks came under pressure on Thursday as the threat of imminent US military action in Syria rattled investors and sent oil prices to their highest levels since late 2014 on concerns about suppl...
-- 2018-04-11 16:03:50
Mozambique will hold presidential, parliamentary and provincial elections on October 15 next year, the presidency said on Wednesday, setting the date for a vote that will proceed the southern African...
-- 2018-04-11 14:50:09
More than 100 people were killed when an Algerian military plane crashed into a field outside the capital on Wednesday, local media reported. Television footage showed crowds gathering around the smo...
-- 2018-04-11 14:26:50
Search and rescue operations are continuing after a landslide buried houses on Wednesday morning in Oita Prefecture, south-western Japan, leaving one person dead and five others unaccounted for. Muni...
-- 2018-04-11 13:19:39
Kenya’s economy will grow by 5.5 per cent in 2018, up from the 4.8 per cent growth it had projected for last year, the World Bank (WB) said on Wednesday. The East Africa country’s econo...
-- 2018-04-11 12:35:27
Japanese stocks edged lower on Wednesday morning in choppy trade after China’s President Xi Jinping helped ease fears over a US-China trade war. The markets fell slightly after witnessing a str...
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