-- 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...
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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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....
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
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