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European shares trade lower

European shares trade lower

-- 2018-09-05 17:41:49

European shares traded lower on Wednesday as trade tensions and growing worries about emerging market currencies cut investor appetite for risky assets. At 0826 GMT, the pan-European STOXX 600 was do...

Golf markets edge down, Abu Dhabi climbs

Golf markets edge down, Abu Dhabi climbs

-- 2018-09-05 17:09:25

Golf markets edged down on Wednesday as the investor sentiment was soured by fears of the potential fallout on the global economy from a likely escalation in the Sino-US trade war. US President Don...

Elevator plummets at Tehran construction site, killing six

Elevator plummets at Tehran construction site, killing six

-- 2018-09-05 14:32:13

Iran's official IRNA news agency reports that an elevator at a construction site plummeted multiple floors, killing six construction workers in the capital Tehran. Jalal Maleki, spokesman for the Teh...

Uber to block low-rated riders in Australia, New Zealand

Uber to block low-rated riders in Australia, New Zealand

-- 2018-09-05 11:42:21

Uber is to block customers in Australia and New Zealand from its ride service if they have a low passenger rating. Riders rated four-out-of-five stars or lower will be banned for six months. Ratings...

Turkey refuses to fulfil ‘unlawful requests’ on US pastor case

Turkey refuses to fulfil ‘unlawful requests’ on US pastor case

-- 2018-09-05 11:07:04

Turkey cannot fulfil unlawful requests” regarding US Pastor Andrew Brunson’s ongoing case, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan was quoted as saying by the Hurriyet newspaper early on Wednesda...

Storm Gordon batters US gulf coast, emergency declared

Storm Gordon batters US gulf coast, emergency declared

-- 2018-09-05 10:39:06

A state of emergency has been declared in Louisiana and Mississippi as Tropical Storm Gordon batters the US Gulf Coast. Gordon made landfall just west of the Alabama-Mississippi border, the National...

Typhoon ‘Jebi’ claims 10 lives in Japan

Typhoon ‘Jebi’ claims 10 lives in Japan

-- 2018-09-05 09:55:42

A powerful typhoon killed 10 people in western Japan and an airport company started to transfer some 3,000 stranded passengers by boats from a flooded airport, the government said on Wednesday, as mor...

France’s Macron to reshuffle cabinet

France’s Macron to reshuffle cabinet

-- 2018-09-04 16:02:16

French President Emmanuel Macron hopes to draw a line under a raft of troubles plaguing his 16-month-old presidency and to re-energise his economic reform drive with a cabinet reshuffle on Tuesday. M...

Indian airline stocks drop on higher oil prices

Indian airline stocks drop on higher oil prices

-- 2018-09-04 14:02:24

Indian airline stocks have slipped as the Brent crude oil prices rose overnight, supported by concerns that falling Iranian output will tighten markets once US sanctions bite from November. The share...

Duterte withdraws amnesty for opposition senator, orders arrest

Duterte withdraws amnesty for opposition senator, orders arrest

-- 2018-09-04 13:55:02

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday withdrew amnesty for an opposition senator involved in a failed coup 15 years ago and ordered his arrest, in what would be the second detention of a law...

UAE private sector growth in August is fastest this year

UAE private sector growth in August is fastest this year

-- 2018-09-04 13:39:59

The non-oil private sector growth of Saudi Arabia inched up in August to its fastest rate this year, a survey showed on Tuesday, suggesting a long-awaited recovery of the economy may have begun. Th...

Congo top court excludes rival leader from presidential election

Congo top court excludes rival leader from presidential election

-- 2018-09-04 11:57:43

Democratic Republic of Congo’s top court on Monday definitively excluded opposition leader Jean-Pierre Bemba from December’s presidential election because of a witness tampering conviction...

Asian shares fall on US-China trade dispute

Asian shares fall on US-China trade dispute

-- 2018-09-04 11:47:18

Asian shares fell and the dollar turned higher on Tuesday as the trade dispute between the United States and China threatened to escalate this week, and as emergency austerity measures in Argentina un...

Japan braces for typhoon Jebi, issues evacuation advisories

Japan braces for typhoon Jebi, issues evacuation advisories

-- 2018-09-04 11:06:43

Japan issued evacuation advisories for almost 300,000 people and cancelled hundreds of flights in the face of strong winds and heavy rain as typhoon Jebi roared north and was set to make landfall late...

Mideast stocks dip on trade disputes

Mideast stocks dip on trade disputes

-- 2018-09-03 16:10:09

Golf markets were weak on Monday amid concerns over the impact that trade disputes involving the United States could affect the global economy and equities, while Saudi Arabia’s shares rose. Th...

European shares open broadly flat

European shares open broadly flat

-- 2018-09-03 16:09:24

European shares opened broadly flat on Monday as worries about US trade policy and concerns over emerging markets weighed on stocks after Asian markets closed in negative territory. At 0750 GMT, the...

Turkish inflation hits 17.9pc in August

Turkish inflation hits 17.9pc in August

-- 2018-09-03 16:08:30

Turkish annual inflation rate surged to 17.9 per cent in the previous month, hitting highest point since 2004, showed official data on Monday. Consumer prices index (CPI) increased 17.9 per cent in...

S Korea's fruit imports hit record high in 2017

S Korea's fruit imports hit record high in 2017

-- 2018-09-03 16:05:34

Fruit imports in South Korea hit a new record high last year due to dietary diversity, customs office data showed Monday. The country imported 834,000 tons of fruits, worth $1.24 billion, in 2017, ac...

Asian stocks dip on trade, emerging market woes

Asian stocks dip on trade, emerging market woes

-- 2018-09-03 12:04:42

Asian stocks dropped for the third consecutive session on Monday, hit by worries over further escalation of the US-China trade war and unstable emerging market currencies. MSCI’s broadest index...

EU’s chief Brexit negotiator ‘strongly’ opposes May’s plan

EU’s chief Brexit negotiator ‘strongly’ opposes May’s plan

-- 2018-09-03 11:15:17

The EU's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier has said he is "strongly" opposed to key parts of Theresa May's proposals for a future trade deal. This morning the prime minister said she would not c...

Myanmar jails two Reuters  journos for seven years in state secrets case

Myanmar jails two Reuters journos for seven years in state secrets case

-- 2018-09-03 10:33:22

A Myanmar judge on Monday found two Reuters journalists guilty of breaching a law on state secrets and sentenced them to seven years in prison, in a landmark case seen as a test of progress towards de...

Three die in Afghanistan chopper crash

Three die in Afghanistan chopper crash

-- 2018-09-02 15:10:38

An Afghan official says a foreign pilot and two Afghan soldiers were killed when a helicopter contracted by NATO crashed inside an army base. Major Hanif Rezaie, an army spokesman, says three others,...

Mexican judge drops graft case against ex-ruling party official

Mexican judge drops graft case against ex-ruling party official

-- 2018-09-02 13:58:49

A judge has dismissed a high-profile corruption case against a former official in Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) centring on alleged misuse of public funds, authorities said on...

Chinese cops detain 46 after education protests

Chinese cops detain 46 after education protests

-- 2018-09-02 13:28:43

Chinese police on Sunday said it has detained 46 people in Leiyang city after bottles, bricks and firecrackers were thrown at officers and government officials during a 600-strong protest against prob...

US fund managers trim bank stocks on profit worries

US fund managers trim bank stocks on profit worries

-- 2018-09-02 10:54:52

US-based mutual fund managers worried about the outlook for bank earnings have been trimming financial stocks from their portfolios, although some value-oriented portfolio managers and analysts said t...

Blasts hit Syrian air base

Blasts hit Syrian air base

-- 2018-09-02 10:52:54

Syrian state media said loud blasts coming from an airbase early on Sunday were from an explosion at an ammunitions dump caused by an electrical problem, but an official in the regional alliance backi...

UK will not compromise with EU on Brexit plan, May says

UK will not compromise with EU on Brexit plan, May says

-- 2018-09-02 10:23:29

British Prime Minister Theresa May said she would not compromise with Brussels over her plans for Brexit as a media report said rivals in her party were set to publish their own proposal calling for a...

N Korea prepares for toned-down military parade, say analysts

N Korea prepares for toned-down military parade, say analysts

-- 2018-09-01 15:14:18

Satellite imagery shows North Korea is poised to stage another military parade amid new worries that diplomatic efforts on denuclearisation are stalling, though analysts say it is unclear whether it w...

Protests erupt in Uganda after lawmakers detained at airport

Protests erupt in Uganda after lawmakers detained at airport

-- 2018-09-01 13:47:17

Protests erupted in the Ugandan capital on Friday after police detained two lawmakers at the international airport as they prepared to travel abroad for medical care, witnesses said. People demonstra...

India to help build Raxaul-Kathmandu rail link

India to help build Raxaul-Kathmandu rail link

-- 2018-09-01 13:35:22

India will help Nepal construct a rail link between Nepalese capital Kathmandu and Indian border town of Raxaul in eastern Bihar state for smoother movement of passengers and cargo. The officials of...