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Zimbabweans bid farewell to Tsvangirai

Zimbabweans bid farewell to Tsvangirai

-- 2018-02-21 11:08:23

More than 5,000 people have attended the burial of Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai in his home village after he died of colon cancer. The burial was marred by divisions in the party he...

Cos launch new brands as tea expo concludes

Cos launch new brands as tea expo concludes

FE Report 2018-02-21 09:37:54

The second edition of tea exposition concluded on Tuesday in Dhaka, generating enthusiasm among companies and visitors. Organisers and participants of the 'Bangladesh Tea Expo-2018' said the event ha...

Singapore plans to hike sales tax

Singapore plans to hike sales tax

-- 2018-02-20 20:47:42

Singapore government has decided to hike its sales tax to 9.0 per cent from 7.0 per cent after the city-state’s next general election, which is due to be held by January 2021. The Goods and S...

European shares edge back in positive territory

European shares edge back in positive territory

-- 2018-02-20 17:08:25

European shares rebounded on Tuesday after ending a three-day recovery in the previous session when Wall Street and Chinese markets were closed for holiday. At 0824 GMT, most sectors and indexes acro...

Mideast stocks slip, Saudi firm

Mideast stocks slip, Saudi firm

-- 2018-02-20 16:56:00

Mideast stocks were mostly lower on Tuesday, in line with a pull-back by Asian bourses and oil prices, but Saudi Arabia remained firm in a fresh sign of fund flows into Riyadh from the rest of the reg...

Frequent accidents mar Indonesia infrastructure projects

Frequent accidents mar Indonesia infrastructure projects

-- 2018-02-20 15:21:31

Indonesia suspended the construction of elevated infrastructure projects, including rail and roads, after a series of accidents raised questions about the safety of a government drive to upgrade trans...

Afghan bomb blast kills one, wounds three

Afghan bomb blast kills one, wounds three

-- 2018-02-20 14:44:55

A bomb blast has rocked Jalalabad city, the capital of Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province on Tuesday killing at least one civilian, a local official said. The explosion has left three people in...

Jennifer Lawrence quitting acting

Jennifer Lawrence quitting acting

-- 2018-02-20 13:57:38

Jennifer Lawrence is an Oscar winner and one of the world's highest-paid actresses but now Jennifer Lawrence is turning her back on Hollywood - for a year, anyway. The Hunger Games star is taking 12...

Japan man wins custody of 13 surrogate children

Japan man wins custody of 13 surrogate children

-- 2018-02-20 13:39:05

A Bangkok court has awarded paternity rights to a Japanese man over 13 babies he fathered through Thai surrogate mothers. The ruling allows Mitsutoki Shigeta, 28, to pursue custody of the children....

Premature babies likely to have low IQs

Premature babies likely to have low IQs

-- 2018-02-20 13:09:41

Babies who are born much too soon or who arrive weighing too little may not score as high on intelligence tests during childhood as full-term infants, a research review suggests. Researchers examined...

Missing Italians: Mexico launches probe

Missing Italians: Mexico launches probe

-- 2018-02-20 12:43:04

Mexican authorities are investigating the disappearance of three Italian men in the western state of Jalisco. The Naples natives reportedly went missing on Jan 31 after being detained by police at a...

Japan hopes US returns to TPP

Japan hopes US returns to TPP

-- 2018-02-20 12:21:27

Negotiators from Japan speak about a positive stance by the United States toward an Asia-Pacific trade pack, but also indicated that an agreement alteration at this point would nevertheless be challen...

NZ braces for ‘Gita’, emergency declared

NZ braces for ‘Gita’, emergency declared

-- 2018-02-20 11:54:53

Christchurch on New Zealand's South Island has declared a state of emergency as former cyclone Gita approaches the country. Dozens of schools have been shut and roads closed as the South Island brace...

Asian stocks slip on European decline

Asian stocks slip on European decline

-- 2018-02-20 11:50:48

Asian stocks slipped on Tuesday, their recent recovery stalling after European equities broke a winning streak, while the dollar edged up to pull further away from three-year lows. MSCI’s broad...

Massive Russian money laundering trial begins in Spain

Massive Russian money laundering trial begins in Spain

-- 2018-02-20 11:35:32

A Russian Member of Parliament, Vladislav Reznik, and 17 other suspects have gone on trial in Madrid accused of massive money-laundering for a Russian mafia gang. The alleged gang bosses Gennady Petr...

Three Iranian cops die in clashes with Sufis

Three Iranian cops die in clashes with Sufis

-- 2018-02-20 11:04:45

Clashes erupted between Iranian police and members of a Sufi Muslim religious community in Tehran, leaving three officers dead, said the law enforcers. A protest by dervishes at a police station in n...

Nigerian police detain three village massacre masterminds

Nigerian police detain three village massacre masterminds

-- 2018-02-20 10:42:20

Nigerian local police have arrested three people suspected to have masterminded an attack which led to the killing of at least 36 villagers in the north-western state of Zamfara last week. Kenneth Em...

Italy debt-GDP ratio falls

Italy debt-GDP ratio falls

-- 2018-02-19 21:54:38

Bank of Italy said the country’s public debt as a proportion of gross domestic product, fell by around half of a percentage point last year, broadly in line with the government’s target....

European shares dip in choppy trade

European shares dip in choppy trade

-- 2018-02-19 21:37:12

European shares dipped in choppy trade on Monday as a poor update from Reckitt Benckiser hit consumer staples. Shares in Tenaris, Outokumpu and Arcelor Mittal- which have facilities in the United S...

Mideast stocks slow; big bank boosts Egypt

Mideast stocks slow; big bank boosts Egypt

-- 2018-02-19 21:28:56

Mideast stocks were sluggish on Monday, with a dividend cut pulling down major Abu Dhabi-listed financial firm Waha Capital, but Egypt’s bourse rose on the back of a gain by its biggest bank....

Indonesia’s Sinabung volcano erupts, spews ash

Indonesia’s Sinabung volcano erupts, spews ash

-- 2018-02-19 15:30:31

Mount Sinabung volcano in Sumatra Island of Indonesia spewed columns of volcanic ash as high as about five kilometres into the air, as it erupted on Monday. Head of National Volcanology Agency Kasban...

Maldives president wants extension of state of emergency

Maldives president wants extension of state of emergency

-- 2018-02-19 15:06:07

Maldives President Abdulla Yameen has sought parliamentary approval to extend a state of emergency for 15 days. Parliament’s Deputy Secretary General, Fathmath Niusha has told the legislature o...

French Alps avalanche kills father, daughter

French Alps avalanche kills father, daughter

-- 2018-02-19 14:32:23

An avalanche in the French Alps has taken the lives of a father and his daughter while they were skiing, say rescue officials. The man, 43, and his 11-year-old daughter were from the Paris region and...

Another strong quake jolts Mexico

Another strong quake jolts Mexico

-- 2018-02-19 14:00:55

An earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale has shaken the southern parts of Mexico, the country's National Seismological Service reported on early Monday. The strong quake struck 43 km east of...

Facebook apologises over non-security SMS bug

Facebook apologises over non-security SMS bug

-- 2018-02-19 13:45:28

After several people received non-security-related notifications from Facebook after giving the social network their phone numbers for two-factor authentication (2FA), the company admitted there was a...

Cops free 18 hostages as Brazil prison riot ends

Cops free 18 hostages as Brazil prison riot ends

-- 2018-02-19 13:40:21

Brazilian police have freed 18 hostages, who were held by armed inmates at a Rio de Janeiro jail, say officials. Officials at Brazil’s Milton Dias Moreira prison said eight prison wardens and 1...

Stroke rehabilitation: New wearable electronic device to work wonders

Stroke rehabilitation: New wearable electronic device to work wonders

-- 2018-02-19 13:19:12

A new stretchable bandage-like electronic sensor, designed to be worn on the throat, will be a game-changer in treatment of stroke recovery, said a US study released Saturday. The sensor, developed b...

Landmine blast kills poll candidate in Meghalaya

Landmine blast kills poll candidate in Meghalaya

-- 2018-02-19 13:03:30

An election candidate has been killed along with three other people after a landmine explosion occurred in India’s north-eastern state of Meghalaya, police said on Monday. The attack happened o...

Kurds strike deal with Syrian army to enter Afrin

Kurds strike deal with Syrian army to enter Afrin

-- 2018-02-19 11:37:26

Syrian Kurdish forces and the Damascus government have reached an agreement for the Syrian army to enter the Afrin region to help repel a Turkish offensive, a senior Kurdish official said. Badran Jia...

UK households turn gloomier on finances: Survey

UK households turn gloomier on finances: Survey

-- 2018-02-19 11:22:59

British households’ gloom about their finances deepened this month, and most now expect borrowing costs to rise again within six months after the Bank of England raised interest rates in Novembe...