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Castro era sees end as Cubans head to polls

Castro era sees end as Cubans head to polls

-- 2018-03-11 12:54:00

Cubans go to the polls on Sunday in a one-party vote that marks the penultimate step in a political process that will culminate next month with the selection of the Communist-ruled island’s firs...

Erdogan lashes out at NATO for lack of Syria support

Erdogan lashes out at NATO for lack of Syria support

-- 2018-03-11 12:03:24

Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has criticised NATO for not supporting his country’s ongoing military operation against Syrian Kurdish fighters in Syria. The president, speaking t...

Irish anti-abortion protesters march ahead of referendum

Irish anti-abortion protesters march ahead of referendum

-- 2018-03-11 11:29:05

Tens of thousands of people have marched through the Irish capital Dublin to protest against a government-proposed referendum to revoke a law which forbids abortion in the country. Organisers of the...

Uruguay agrees to extradite ‘cocaine king of Milan’ to Italy

Uruguay agrees to extradite ‘cocaine king of Milan’ to Italy

-- 2018-03-10 15:08:43

Uruguay has agreed to extradite a notorious drug trader known as the ‘cocaine king of Milan’ back to Italy. Rocco Morabito was arrested last year in the Uruguayan resort town of Punta del...

RBI turns up heat on lenders after mega loan fraud

RBI turns up heat on lenders after mega loan fraud

-- 2018-03-10 13:08:17

The Reserve Bank of India has asked commercial lenders to provide it with details of all letters of undertaking - a form of credit guarantee at the centre of an alleged $2 billion fraud - issued by th...

Two die as light aircraft crashes in Thailand’s Phuket

Two die as light aircraft crashes in Thailand’s Phuket

-- 2018-03-10 13:00:37

Two people have been killed and two others seriously injured after a light aircraft crash-landed in Thailand's Phuket on Saturday. The Phuket News reported citing the police that the incident took pl...

Mauritian president to quit over credit card row

Mauritian president to quit over credit card row

-- 2018-03-10 12:17:04

Mauritian President Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, Africa’s only female head of state, is to step down over a financial scandal. She has been accused of using a credit card issued by an international non...

US stocks jump after wage data

US stocks jump after wage data

-- 2018-03-10 11:30:52

Wall Street jumped sharply on Friday, after strong job additions in February but sluggish wage growth that pointed to a gradual rise in inflation and helped temper expectations of faster rate increa...

Florida massacre: NRA files lawsuit challenging gun-control bill

Florida massacre: NRA files lawsuit challenging gun-control bill

-- 2018-03-10 11:26:53

The National Rifle Association has sued Florida after it passed a gun control law in the wake of a school shooting last month that left 17 people dead. Governor Rick Scott, a Republican and staunch a...

Court sentences 'Pharma Bro' Shkreli to seven years in jail

Court sentences 'Pharma Bro' Shkreli to seven years in jail

-- 2018-03-10 11:05:52

The former pharmaceutical chief executive, Martin ‘Pharma Bro’ Shkreli found guilty of defrauding investors, has been sentenced to seven years in prison. The 34-year-old wept at a hearing...

Japan central bank keeps policy steady

Japan central bank keeps policy steady

-- 2018-03-09 15:01:26

Japan’s central bank kept monetary settings unchanged on Friday and stuck to its upbeat view on the economy, underscoring its conviction that its massive stimulus programme is helping drive infl...

Asia shares firm as Trump set to meet Kim

Asia shares firm as Trump set to meet Kim

-- 2018-03-09 12:32:53

Asian shares pared sharp early gains on Friday ahead of US payrolls data which could hasten Federal Reserve rate hikes, and as some caution set in about the new entente between North Korean leader Kim...

Indian retail inflation likely eases

Indian retail inflation likely eases

-- 2018-03-09 12:16:22

The retail inflation of India likely eased to a four-month low in February on softening prices for vegetable and other perishable foods, a Reuters poll showed. The inflation likely to fall but probab...

US airstrike kills 21 Pakistani Taliban in Afghanistan

US airstrike kills 21 Pakistani Taliban in Afghanistan

-- 2018-03-08 16:00:12

Two missiles fired from a US drone struck a militant facility in Afghanistan, leaving 21 insurgents dead including the son of the head of the Pakistani Taliban, Pakistani intelligence officials and lo...

Gulf stock markets open mixed trend

Gulf stock markets open mixed trend

-- 2018-03-08 15:41:41

Mideast stocks opened mixed on Thursday, with Saudi stocks leading the gains, as concerns about a global trade war retreated. Saudi stocks rose 0.1 per cent, with banks and insurers the main upward d...

Indian shares hold steady

Indian shares hold steady

-- 2018-03-08 15:40:22

Indian shares held steady on Thursday after six sessions of losses, on hopes that US President’s plan to introduce hefty tariffs on steel and aluminium imports could exclude certain key partner...

Spanish workers’ strike on Women’s Day disrupts train service

Spanish workers’ strike on Women’s Day disrupts train service

-- 2018-03-08 15:14:37

Many trains in Spain have been cancelled as workers prepare to strike to highlight gender inequalities on International Women's Day. Three-hundred trains will not be operating on Thursday, the countr...

SA’s Cape Town may avoid water shut-off

SA’s Cape Town may avoid water shut-off

-- 2018-03-08 13:37:12

South African city of Cape Town will not have to turn off water supplies if current consumption levels are maintained, the region’s governing party has said. Amid a drought, the city had set a...

Florida massacre: Legislators pass gun-safety bill

Florida massacre: Legislators pass gun-safety bill

-- 2018-03-08 12:23:08

Florida lawmakers, spurred by last month’s deadly high school shooting, have given final passage to a bill to raise the legal age for buying rifles, impose a three-day waiting period on all gun...

Euro zone economy sees strong growth at last year’s end

Euro zone economy sees strong growth at last year’s end

-- 2018-03-08 11:48:26

The euro zone economy grew by 0.6 per cent in the final quarter of last year, European statistics agency Eurostat confirmed on Wednesday, ensuring that the single currency bloc expanded at its fastest...

Sri Lanka lifts curfew in tourist town Kandy

Sri Lanka lifts curfew in tourist town Kandy

-- 2018-03-08 11:19:59

A curfew in the Sri Lankan town of Kandy will be temporarily lifted on Thursday, authorities said, following days of violence against members of the minority Muslim community by Buddhists. Buddhist m...

Magnitude 5.7 quake shakes Indonesia

Magnitude 5.7 quake shakes Indonesia

-- 2018-03-08 10:49:54

An earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale has shaken the eastern parts of Indonesia on Thursday morning, according to the meteorology and geophysics agency. The moderate quake struck at 10:51...

Asian shares find solace in softer US tariff stance

Asian shares find solace in softer US tariff stance

-- 2018-03-08 10:36:25

A man is reflected in an electronic stock quotation board outside a brokerage in Tokyo, Japan February 9, 2018. Reuters/Files Asian shares found relief on Thursday as fears about a global trade war a...

Mild tremor jolts Russia’s Kuril Islands

Mild tremor jolts Russia’s Kuril Islands

-- 2018-03-07 15:07:43

An earthquake of magnitude 5.8 has shaken the east of the Kuril Islands, in Russia's Sakhalin Oblast region, according to the US Geological Survey. Xinhua news agency reported citing the USGS the qua...

Buddhist mob attack Sri Lankan Muslims despite emergency

Buddhist mob attack Sri Lankan Muslims despite emergency

-- 2018-03-07 14:51:56

Buddhist mob attacked mosques and businesses belonging to Sri Lanka’s minority Muslims overnight, despite the imposition of a state of emergency to restore peace in the bitterly divided island,...

Saudi crown prince begins UK visit with focus on stronger defence ties

Saudi crown prince begins UK visit with focus on stronger defence ties

-- 2018-03-07 14:05:31

Britain’s grand welcome for Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will begin on Wednesday with a lunch with Queen Elizabeth, as the two countries seek to widen longstanding defence ties into a...

Holocaust row: Poland, US rejects high-level meeting ban reports

Holocaust row: Poland, US rejects high-level meeting ban reports

-- 2018-03-07 12:48:37

Media reports alleging that the United States had banned high-level meetings with Polish officials, as part of protest over the new Holocaust law, have been denied by Poland and the United States. A...

Global stocks fall amid heightened trade war fears

Global stocks fall amid heightened trade war fears

-- 2018-03-07 12:07:06

Global stocks and the dollar slumped on Wednesday after a key advocate for free trade in the White House resigned, fanning fears that President Donald Trump will proceed with tariffs and risk a trade...

Trump vows to thwart any tampering in 2018 polls

Trump vows to thwart any tampering in 2018 polls

-- 2018-03-07 11:53:28

US president Donald Trump has said the United States will counteract any attempt at meddling in the November 2018 elections. Trump on Tuesday, said that there was interference by Russia and probably...

US economy's ‘headwinds shifting to tailwinds’

US economy's ‘headwinds shifting to tailwinds’

-- 2018-03-07 11:50:04

Things are looking up for a US economy that struggled in recent years to boost growth and inflation, so the Federal Reserve should expect to gradually raise interest rates, an influential Fed governor...