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Nissan, Mitsubishi shares slump on Ghosn arrest

Nissan, Mitsubishi shares slump on Ghosn arrest

-- 2018-11-20 11:59:54

Nissan and Mitsubishi shares have slumped in early Tokyo trade, after the arrest of chairman Carlos Ghosn. He is accused of under-reporting his income by 5 billion yen ($44.4 million) over five years...

Global stock markets tumble on tech sell-off, dollar sags

Global stock markets tumble on tech sell-off, dollar sags

Reuters 2018-11-20 11:23:44

Asian stock markets skidded on Tuesday, extending sharp losses on Wall Street as technology firms bore the brunt of worries about slackening demand, while the dollar sagged after weak US data further...

Mexican drug lord Beltran Leyva dies of cardiac arrest

Mexican drug lord Beltran Leyva dies of cardiac arrest

-- 2018-11-19 14:44:25

Hector Beltran Leyva, a Mexican drug lord whose cartel earned a reputation as one of the country’s most vengeful and ruthless, died late on Sunday in hospital of cardiac arrest after being trans...

Nigeria’s Buhari launches manifesto for re-election bid

Nigeria’s Buhari launches manifesto for re-election bid

-- 2018-11-19 14:24:59

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has launched his manifesto, hoping his anti-corruption agenda can win him a second term at a Feb 16 election. Buhari, a military ruler in the early 1980s, in 2015...

Hong Kong activists plead not guilty in ‘Umbrella’ movement trial

Hong Kong activists plead not guilty in ‘Umbrella’ movement trial

-- 2018-11-19 12:58:06

Nine pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong have pleaded not guilty in a trial seen as a test of judicial independence from Beijing. They have been charged with "public nuisance" over the 2014 "Umbrell...

Japan's trade deficit widens; exports up

Japan's trade deficit widens; exports up

-- 2018-11-19 12:52:46

Japan's trade deficit grew to its largest since July 2015 in October as a gain in exports was outpaced by a nearly 20 per cent jump in imports. The Ministry of Finance said Monday that exports grew a...

Putin told Pence Russia didn't meddle in US election: Kremlin

Putin told Pence Russia didn't meddle in US election: Kremlin

-- 2018-11-19 12:41:36

Russian President Vladimir Putin told US Vice President Mike Pence Russia had nothing to do with meddling in the 2016 US election, Interfax reported on Monday, during discussions about an upcoming mee...

Asian shares rise after Wall St jumps

Asian shares rise after Wall St jumps

-- 2018-11-19 11:58:35

Asian shares were mostly higher Monday after a buying spree on Wall Street sustained investor optimism into the new week, despite continuing worries over trade tensions. Japan's benchmark Nikkei 22...

Nikkei rebounds; financials tumble

Nikkei rebounds; financials tumble

-- 2018-11-19 11:49:59

Japan’s Nikkei share average rebounded on Monday after investors covered their short positions on chip-related stocks, offsetting a drop in financials which were hurt by lower US yields. The...

Trump calls CIA assessment of Khashoggi murder ‘very premature’

Trump calls CIA assessment of Khashoggi murder ‘very premature’

-- 2018-11-18 12:56:32

President Donald Trump on Saturday called a CIA assessment blaming Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi “very premature” and said he w...

US-led airstrikes kill 40 in Syria, IS says

US-led airstrikes kill 40 in Syria, IS says

-- 2018-11-18 11:01:38

At least forty people, mostly women and children were killed in the latest wave of US-led coalition airstrikes on Saturday against the last remaining Islamic State-held pocket in Syria near the border...

California unemployment rate holds at record low

California unemployment rate holds at record low

-- 2018-11-17 14:40:16

California's unemployment rate held at the record low of 4.1 per cent in October as employers added 36,400 nonfarm payroll jobs, the state Employment Development Department said Friday. The rate fi...

US stocks rise on trade optimism

US stocks rise on trade optimism

-- 2018-11-17 13:41:05

US stocks rose on Friday after President Donald Trump said the United States may not have to impose further tariffs on Chinese goods. The markets moved higher, however, after the president said China...

World stocks end week near flat

World stocks end week near flat

-- 2018-11-17 13:28:36

World stocks ended the week nearly flat on Friday while the US dollar weakened and Treasury yields pulled back after a top Federal Reserve official said US interest rates were near a neutral rate....

Trump threatens to leave briefings if reporters don’t act with ‘decorum’

Trump threatens to leave briefings if reporters don’t act with ‘decorum’

-- 2018-11-17 12:02:50

Donald Trump has threatened to walk out of future press briefings if reporters do not act with 'decorum'. The US president was speaking after a Washington DC court ordered the White House to return C...

Mortar bombs fired at UN peacekeeping base in Congo

Mortar bombs fired at UN peacekeeping base in Congo

-- 2018-11-17 12:02:20

Mortar bombs were fired at a UN peacekeeping base and gunfire could be heard in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern city of Beni, an area which has seen a surge in fighting with rebel gro...

Cyclone 'Gaja' hits southern India, killing 13

Cyclone 'Gaja' hits southern India, killing 13

-- 2018-11-17 10:48:16

A cyclone hit the coast of southern India, killing at least 13 people, damaging homes and forcing the evacuation of more than 80,000 residents on Friday. Cyclone 'Gaja' blew ashore in Tamil Nadu stat...

India house prices to rise 2pc in 2019: Reuters poll

India house prices to rise 2pc in 2019: Reuters poll

-- 2018-11-16 12:11:21

India house prices will rise 2.0 per cent in 2019, at half the rate of consumer price inflation, hit by dwindling credit supply, according to a Reuters poll of housing market experts. House prices ha...

US imports, exports prices rise in Oct

US imports, exports prices rise in Oct

-- 2018-11-16 11:30:24

US import and export prices both increased in October, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Thursday. Prices for US imports increased 0.5 per cent in October after advancing 0.2 per cent in S...

Nikkei slips Nvidia's poor results dent chip sector

Nikkei slips Nvidia's poor results dent chip sector

-- 2018-11-16 11:22:57

Japan’s Nikkei fell on Friday as a drop in semiconductor-related stocks weighed after US’s Nvidia disappointed the market with worse-than-expected earnings. The Nikkei share average ope...

Asian shares mixed in cautious trading

Asian shares mixed in cautious trading

-- 2018-11-16 11:20:02

Asian shares were mixed in early trading on Friday on revived concerns over the prospects for a breakthrough in trade tensions between the US and China. Japan’s Nikkei 225 index lost 0.4 per ce...

Taliban attacks kill 30 security forces in western Afghanistan

Taliban attacks kill 30 security forces in western Afghanistan

-- 2018-11-15 15:41:43

Major assaults by Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan’s western province of Farah bordering Iran, mounted with the aim of weakening the government’s grip on the region, have killed at least...

16 die in Afghanistan gun battle

16 die in Afghanistan gun battle

-- 2018-11-15 15:16:20

Fighting between security forces and Taliban militants have left 16 fighters from both sides dead in Qala-e-Zal district of Afghanistan’s northern Kunduz province, an army spokesman in the north...

Ethiopia arrests ex-deputy intelligence chief for rights abuses

Ethiopia arrests ex-deputy intelligence chief for rights abuses

-- 2018-11-15 13:07:50

Ethiopia’s former deputy intelligence chief has been arrested, Attorney General Berhanu Tsegaye said on Thursday, in the latest move targeting security officials for human rights abuses and corr...

IMF expects Qatar economy to grow 2.4pc in 2018

IMF expects Qatar economy to grow 2.4pc in 2018

-- 2018-11-15 11:54:03

Qatar’s GDP growth is projected to rise to 2.4 per cent in 2018 from 1.6 per cent in 2017 on the back of higher energy prices, the International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday. The country h...

Asian shares fall after Wall Street slips

Asian shares fall after Wall Street slips

-- 2018-11-15 11:45:45

Most Asian stock markets declined Thursday after Wall Street fell for a fifth day and Britain's Cabinet endorsed a draft agreement to leave the European Union. Tokyo's Nikkei 225 lost 0.7 per cent to...

Nikkei dips; banking stocks slip

Nikkei dips; banking stocks slip

-- 2018-11-15 11:37:38

Japan’s Nikkei fell on Thursday, with banking stocks sliding after disappointing earnings forecasts and losses in US financial shares. Selling in large market cap stocks such as SoftBank and Fa...

Trump nominates ex-army general as US ambassador to KSA

Trump nominates ex-army general as US ambassador to KSA

-- 2018-11-14 14:52:10

US President Donald Trump has nominated a retired Army general to be the country’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia, as Washington faces pressure to respond to the killing of journalist Jamal Khashogg...

Mike Pence urges Suu Kyi to pardon Reuters journos

Mike Pence urges Suu Kyi to pardon Reuters journos

-- 2018-11-14 14:04:02

US vice president Mike Pence pressed Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi “multiple times” on Wednesday to pardon two Reuters journalists jailed in her country, a senior White House official sa...

Clashes between army, separatists kill 15 in Cameroon

Clashes between army, separatists kill 15 in Cameroon

-- 2018-11-14 13:07:13

At least 15 people have been killed in a new bout of fighting between Cameroon army troops and separatist rebels, the two sides said on Tuesday, in a rise in violence since President Paul Biya won a s...