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Asian shares rise after strong China manufacturing data

Asian shares rise after strong China manufacturing data

-- 2019-03-14 11:08:50

Asian shares were mostly higher on Thursday as slowing Chinese industrial output left traders hopeful of more assurances from Beijing. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 gained 0.7 per cent to 21,431...

UK MPs set to vote on delaying Brexit

UK MPs set to vote on delaying Brexit

-- 2019-03-14 11:03:26

British MPs will vote on Thursday on delaying Brexit after they rejected the idea of leaving the EU without a deal. In a night of high drama in the Commons, MPs surprised the government and voted by...

China offers help to Venezuela to restore power

China offers help to Venezuela to restore power

-- 2019-03-13 15:15:41

China has offered to help Venezuela restore its power grid, after President Nicolas Maduro accused US counterpart Donald Trump of cyber “sabotage” that plunged the South American country i...

Avast CEO to quit as annual results fail to meet expectations

Avast CEO to quit as annual results fail to meet expectations

-- 2019-03-13 14:13:41

Cyber security firm Avast’s long-time chief executive officer is stepping down, the company said on Wednesday as it reported marginally lower-than-expected adjusted revenue and earnings in its f...

CNN faces $275m defamation lawsuit

CNN faces $275m defamation lawsuit

-- 2019-03-13 13:49:56

A US teenager has sued CNN for defamation, saying the cable network falsely conveyed to viewers that he was the "face of an unruly hate mob" confronting a Native American activist at the Lincoln Memor...

Wife, son of Indonesian ‘militant’ blow themselves up: Police

Wife, son of Indonesian ‘militant’ blow themselves up: Police

-- 2019-03-13 13:25:46

The wife and son of a suspected Islamist militant blew themselves up in their home on the Indonesian island of Sumatra early on Wednesday after hours of tense negotiations with counter-terrorism offic...

US Defense Dept sets limits on transgender soldiers

US Defense Dept sets limits on transgender soldiers

-- 2019-03-13 11:55:57

The US Defense Department signed a memo on Tuesday that would enforce limitations on transgender people serving in the military, a policy that has been the subject of court challenges. The policy wil...

India suspends use of Boeing 737 MAX planes

India suspends use of Boeing 737 MAX planes

-- 2019-03-13 11:37:24

India is grounding US planemaker Boeing Co’s 737 MAX aircraft immediately, the ministry of civil aviation said late on Tuesday, following the fatal crash of a plane of the same type in Ethiopia...

China lawmakers urge easing of family planning rules

China lawmakers urge easing of family planning rules

-- 2019-03-12 14:25:52

Delegates to China’s parliament are urging the overhaul or even scrapping of controversial family planning rules and say radical steps are needed to ‘liberate fertility’ and reverse...

Fishing boat collides with ship in east China; 12 missing

Fishing boat collides with ship in east China; 12 missing

-- 2019-03-12 12:34:16

Twelve people went missing after their fishing boat collided with a ship and sank in the early hours of Tuesday off the coast of east China's Zhejiang Province. Local authorities said 14 people on bo...

12 die as heavy rains cause flooding in Brazil’s biggest city

12 die as heavy rains cause flooding in Brazil’s biggest city

-- 2019-03-12 11:57:34

Heavy rains deluged Brazil's biggest city, causing flooding and other damage that resulted in the deaths of at least 12 people, authorities said Monday. Six people were reported injured. Sao Paulo's...

Brexit talks remain deadlocked day before Commons’ vote

Brexit talks remain deadlocked day before Commons’ vote

-- 2019-03-11 12:20:09

Brexit talks between the UK and the EU remain deadlocked, Downing Street has said just a day before MPs are due to vote again on Theresa May's deal. Mrs May spoke to European Commission president Jea...

Asian shares struggle after US payrolls shock

Asian shares struggle after US payrolls shock

-- 2019-03-11 11:59:32

Asian shares struggled for traction on Monday after US employment data raised doubts about the strength of the global economy, while investor jitters ahead of crucial Brexit votes in the UK parliament...

Voting in Ducsu election underway

Voting in Ducsu election underway

-- 2019-03-11 09:24:50

The 43,000-plus students of Dhaka University have begun voting to elect representatives to the Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (Ducsu) after 28 years. Voting began at the polling centr...

Rakhine rebel attack kills nine Myanmar police: Official

Rakhine rebel attack kills nine Myanmar police: Official

-- 2019-03-10 13:42:05

Arakan Army insurgents killed nine Myanmar police in the latest attack in the country’s western Rakhine State, a local official said on Sunday, as clashes threaten to engulf a large part of the...

Malaysia deports six Egyptians despite concerns over rights abuses

Malaysia deports six Egyptians despite concerns over rights abuses

-- 2019-03-10 13:13:54

Malaysia has deported six Egyptians and a Tunisian suspected of being linked to Islamist militant groups abroad, despite protests from human rights groups. The suspects include five people who allege...

UK ‘strips citizenship from two more IS brides’

UK ‘strips citizenship from two more IS brides’

-- 2019-03-10 12:37:31

Two more women from the UK who are being held in Syrian camps with their young children have been stripped of their citizenship, a report says. It comes after the death in a Syrian camp of the baby s...

Severe turbulence injures 29 Turkish Airlines passengers

Severe turbulence injures 29 Turkish Airlines passengers

-- 2019-03-10 10:56:52

More than two dozen people were injured and at least 10 were taken to a hospital after a Turkish Airlines flight encountered severe turbulence on its approach to New York’s John F Kennedy Intern...

US economy created only 20,000 jobs in February

US economy created only 20,000 jobs in February

-- 2019-03-09 16:26:06

The US economy created the lowest number of jobs for a year-and-a-half in February, well below forecasts. Just 20,000 new jobs were created last month against expectations of a 180,000 increase, offi...

Malaysian gets 10 years jail for insulting Islam on social media

Malaysian gets 10 years jail for insulting Islam on social media

-- 2019-03-09 13:16:44

A Malaysian was sentenced to more than 10 years’ jail and three others were charged over insults against Islam and the Prophet Muhammad on social media, police said on Saturday. The sentence is...

Colombia to allow entry of Venezuelans with expired passports

Colombia to allow entry of Venezuelans with expired passports

-- 2019-03-09 11:54:36

Colombia will allow Venezuelans to cross the border using expired passports in view of the difficulty of renewing travel documents in the neighbouring country in the midst of its economic crisis, the...

IS bride Shamima’s baby dies, SDF confirms

IS bride Shamima’s baby dies, SDF confirms

-- 2019-03-09 10:44:54

The infant son of Shamima Begum, a teenager who left London to join the Islamic State group in Syria, has died, a spokesman for the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said on Friday. Begum, who...

Blast injures 18 in India’s Jammu and Kashmir: Police

Blast injures 18 in India’s Jammu and Kashmir: Police

-- 2019-03-07 13:46:26

A grenade explosion at a bus stand in the Indian city of Jammu wounded at least 18 people on Thursday, police said, in an attack just weeks after a Pakistan-based militant group killed 40 paramilitary...

US senators slam Saudi crown prince for going ‘full gangster’

US senators slam Saudi crown prince for going ‘full gangster’

-- 2019-03-07 12:41:46

Retired General John Abizaid, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be ambassador to Saudi Arabia, defended the US-Saudi relationship on Wednesday as lawmakers accused the kingdom of a litany of m...

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos remains world's richest person

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos remains world's richest person

-- 2019-03-06 17:48:02

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has been named the richest person in the world with an estimated worth of $131 billion dollars (€115.8 billion), according to Forbes. Jeff Bezos founded the company in...

Trade disputes, uncertainty over Brexit would hit world businesses: OECD

Trade disputes, uncertainty over Brexit would hit world businesses: OECD

-- 2019-03-06 16:51:24

The Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) has warned that trade disputes and uncertainty over Brexit would hit world commerce and businesses in next two years. The OECD also c...

Ex-Nissan boss Ghosn leaves Tokyo jail

Ex-Nissan boss Ghosn leaves Tokyo jail

-- 2019-03-06 14:19:52

Ousted Nissan Motor Chairman Carlos Ghosn was released from jail on Wednesday after posting $9 million in bail, giving the executive fresh impetus to craft his defence against financial misconduct cha...

UK will set out tariff plan after no-deal Brexit: Minister

UK will set out tariff plan after no-deal Brexit: Minister

-- 2019-03-06 13:54:27

Britain will set out its approach to tariffs on imported goods only if it has taken a decision to leave the European Union without a deal, business minister Greg Clark said on Wednesday. Britain curr...

Labour strike grounds flights at Kenya’s main airport

Labour strike grounds flights at Kenya’s main airport

-- 2019-03-06 12:57:50

A strike prompted by a labour dispute grounded flights at Kenya’s main international airport in Nairobi early on Wednesday, domestic media said, with flag carrier Kenya Airways saying flights we...

China accuses two detained Canadians of spying

China accuses two detained Canadians of spying

-- 2019-03-05 13:19:57

China has accused two Canadians of spying, as tensions between the nations grow over the possible extradition of a Huawei executive to the US. Michael Kovrig, a former diplomat, and Michael Spavor, a...