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Israel revises up annual GDP growth in first quarter

Israel revises up annual GDP growth in first quarter

-- 2018-06-18 14:18:51

Israel’s economy grew an annualised 4.5 per cent in the first quarter of 2018, faster than previously thought, boosted by gains in consumer spending, investment and export, the Central Bureau of...

Meghan Markle’s father regrets missing daughter’s wedding

Meghan Markle’s father regrets missing daughter’s wedding

-- 2018-06-18 13:33:09

Thomas Markle, the father of Britain’s newest royal Meghan, has spoken of his regret that he wasn’t well enough to walk his daughter down the aisle as she married Prince Harry, but said he...

Filipino troops clash with remnants of Islamist group

Filipino troops clash with remnants of Islamist group

-- 2018-06-18 13:03:19

Philippine troops have clashed with remnants of a pro-Islamic State militant group that held a southern city for five months last year, the army said on Monday. Colonel Romeo Brawner, the deputy comm...

US-led coalition hits Syrian army post, causing casualties

US-led coalition hits Syrian army post, causing casualties

-- 2018-06-18 11:56:40

Syrian state TV is reporting that the US-led coalition has struck a military position in the country’s east, leaving several troops dead and wounded. The report early Monday says the airstrike...

Bus strikes Dutch concert-goers, killing one

Bus strikes Dutch concert-goers, killing one

-- 2018-06-18 11:38:14

A bus struck four people at a Dutch concert in the early hours of Monday morning, killing one and wounding three, said police. A police statement said the bus drove away from the scene and is being s...

6.1 quake hits Japan’s Osaka; three dead

6.1 quake hits Japan’s Osaka; three dead

-- 2018-06-18 11:21:02

A magnitude 6.1 earthquake shook Osaka, Japan’s second-biggest metropolis, early on Monday morning, killing three people, halting factory lines in a key industrial area and bursting water mains,...

Explosive device attack kills eight Kenyan police officials

Explosive device attack kills eight Kenyan police officials

-- 2018-06-18 11:13:00

Eight Kenyan police officials were killed in the eastern part of the country on Sunday after their vehicle hit an improvised explosive device planted by Somalia’s al Shabaab militant group, poli...

Colombia elects Ivan Duque as new president

Colombia elects Ivan Duque as new president

-- 2018-06-18 11:05:38

Conservative political newcomer Ivan Duque has been elected president of Colombia. At a victory rally in the capital Bogota, he pledged to unite the country following a divisive campaign. But he sai...

US pips India as top greenfield FDI investment destination

US pips India as top greenfield FDI investment destination

-- 2018-06-17 18:01:58

The US has surpassed India to become the top destination for greenfield FDI investment in 2017, says a report, according to a report by India based The Economic Times. The number of greenfield FDI p...

Singapore Exchange to continue SGX Nifty trade despite India dispute

Singapore Exchange to continue SGX Nifty trade despite India dispute

-- 2018-06-16 20:23:05

MUMBAI : The Singapore Exchange (SGX) said on Saturday a court-appointed arbitrator had told it to continue listing and trading SGX Nifty contracts beyond August 2018, during a dispute resolution with...

Modi to unveil New India 2022 plan Sunday

Modi to unveil New India 2022 plan Sunday

-- 2018-06-16 18:01:08

NEW DELHI: The Indian government will unveil Sunday its development agenda, New IndiaNSE  which will outline ways to expedite economic growth at its fourth governing council meet.  PM Modi...

Indian billionaires’ wealth up 18pc in 2017

Indian billionaires’ wealth up 18pc in 2017

-- 2018-06-16 15:43:40

The ultra-rich are getting richer at a faster pace in the country, according to the Times of India. At 18 per cent, persons with a wealth of more than $1.0 billion saw the highest growth in their for...

IMF rate of charge unchanged for two FYs

IMF rate of charge unchanged for two FYs

FE Online Desk 2018-06-16 11:51:00

  On April 25, 2018, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) completed its annual review of the Fund’s income position for the financial year ending April 30,&nbs...

Trump sets $50b in China tariffs

Trump sets $50b in China tariffs

-- 2018-06-15 20:35:40

US President Donald Trump announced hefty tariffs on $50 billion of Chinese imports on Friday as Beijing threatened to respond in kind, in a move that looks set to ignite a trade war between the wor...

China promises fast response as Trump readies tariffs

China promises fast response as Trump readies tariffs

-- 2018-06-15 18:14:46

BEIJING: China vowed on Friday to strike back quickly if the United States hurts its interests, hours before US President Donald Trump was due to unveil revisions to a tariff list targeting $50 billio...

Tiny Japan shipping shares jump on DPRK detente hopes

Tiny Japan shipping shares jump on DPRK detente hopes

-- 2018-06-15 14:21:21

Shares of small Japanese shippers jumped this week after the historic summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sparked hopes of news business ties with the reclusiv...

Asian shares falter as US readies China tariffs

Asian shares falter as US readies China tariffs

Reuters 2018-06-15 12:56:33

Asian shares wobbled on Friday as investors braced for US tariffs against China, while the euro flirted with two-week lows after a cautious European Central Bank indicated it would not raise interest...

Trump's tariffs pose risk to US economy: IMF

Trump's tariffs pose risk to US economy: IMF

-- 2018-06-15 12:00:15

The International Monetary Fund warned on Thursday that US President Donald Trump’s new import tariffs threaten to undermine the global trading system, prompt retaliation by other countries and...

Politics creates information wedge between market participants in emerging economies   

Politics creates information wedge between market participants in emerging economies  

FE Online Report 2018-06-14 20:51:12

Institutional factors, such as politics and the relationships between politicians and companies, can dictate the way financing reports are created in many emerging economies, says a study. There is o...

Help remittance-receiving families build future: IFAD

Help remittance-receiving families build future: IFAD

-- 2018-06-14 17:55:52

President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Gilbert F Houngbo on Thursday called for continued efforts to help remittance-receiving families build a sustainable future for...

Chile police raid Catholic Church offices in child abuse probe

Chile police raid Catholic Church offices in child abuse probe

-- 2018-06-14 14:50:26

Police and prosecutors in Chile have raided offices and seized documents of the Roman Catholic Church amid a child sexual abuse and cover-up scandal. The surprise raids took place in the capital Sant...

Apple closing iPhone security hole used by cops, criminals

Apple closing iPhone security hole used by cops, criminals

-- 2018-06-14 14:30:01

Apple says it is to change the default settings of its iPhone to stop hackers and others unlocking devices without proper legal authorisation. The move will also make it more difficult for police to...

‘Italy still expects Macron’s apology over immigration remarks’

‘Italy still expects Macron’s apology over immigration remarks’

-- 2018-06-14 13:41:57

Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio said on Thursday he still expects French President Emmanuel Macron to apologise for critical comments he made about Italian immigration policy two day...

Police kill man who stabbed dead two people at SA mosque

Police kill man who stabbed dead two people at SA mosque

-- 2018-06-14 13:27:19

South African police say a man with a knife fatally stabbed two people and wounded several others at a mosque near Cape Town before police shot and killed the attacker. Investigators are not immediat...

Fed lifts rates for second time this year

Fed lifts rates for second time this year

-- 2018-06-14 12:52:26

The US Federal Reserve on Wednesday raised short-term interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point, its second rate hike this year and the seventh since late 2015. In view of realised and expe...

ZTE shares edge up on financing plan

ZTE shares edge up on financing plan

-- 2018-06-14 12:42:55

Shares of Chinese telecommunications giant ZTE rose as much as 3.7 per cent in Hong Kong on Thursday, after the firm proposed a $10.7 billion financing plan and the nomination of eight new board membe...

S Sudan rebel leader agrees to hold talks with president

S Sudan rebel leader agrees to hold talks with president

-- 2018-06-14 12:19:43

South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar has accepted an invitation from the Ethiopian Prime Minister to talks with South Sudanese president Salva Kiir in Addis Ababa next week, a spokesman for Machar...

South Korean stocks slip, won dips

South Korean stocks slip, won dips

-- 2018-06-14 11:27:24

South Korean stocks slipped on Thursday after the Federal Reserve raised interest rates for the second time this year and indicated two more rate hikes were likely in 2018. At 01:09 GMT, the KOSPI wa...

San Francisco elects first black female mayor

San Francisco elects first black female mayor

-- 2018-06-14 11:26:54

A black woman is to lead San Francisco for the first time in its history - at a time when African-American residents are becoming increasingly scarce in the gentrified US city. The ascent of London B...

Asian shares fall after fed raises rates

Asian shares fall after fed raises rates

-- 2018-06-14 11:14:32

Asian shares fell on Thursday after the US Federal Reserve raised its key interest rate and said it would pick up the pace of future increases. South Korea's market benchmark tumbled 1.6 per cent on...