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Mexico won’t pay for border wall, Nieto tells Trump again

Mexico won’t pay for border wall, Nieto tells Trump again

-- 2018-05-30 11:18:35

US President Donald Trump accused Mexico of doing ‘nothing’ to stop illegal immigrants crossing into the United States, and repeated his election campaign pledge that Mexico would pay for...

Russian journalist who criticised Putin shot dead in Ukraine

Russian journalist who criticised Putin shot dead in Ukraine

-- 2018-05-30 10:57:28

A prominent Russian journalist and critic of President Vladimir Putin was shot dead in Ukraine where he had fled into exile following threats, police said on Tuesday. Arkady Babchenko, 41, died of hi...

Gunman shoots at Belgian police in Liege, four dead

Gunman shoots at Belgian police in Liege, four dead

-- 2018-05-29 16:02:38

A gunman has killed two police officers and a passer-by on Tuesday before being himself shot dead in the centre of the eastern Belgian city of Liege, public broadcaster RTBF said on its website. Belg...

China airlines revenue reaches $117b in 2017

China airlines revenue reaches $117b in 2017

-- 2018-05-29 14:10:14

The civil aviation industry of China made operating revenue of 746 billion yuan (about $117 billion) in 2017, said the official statistical bulletin. The figure is a 15.3-per cent increase year on ye...

Mali’s president Keita confirms re-election bid

Mali’s president Keita confirms re-election bid

-- 2018-05-29 13:15:02

Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita announced on state TV that he would run for re-election in a poll scheduled for the end of July. Keita, 73, had been widely expected to run for a second...

Japanese shares hit one-month low

Japanese shares hit one-month low

-- 2018-05-29 12:48:04

Japanese shares slipped to one-month lows on Tuesday with investors selling cyclical shares as concerns over European politics added to the list of reasons to be cautious about the global economic o...

Asian markets mostly lower

Asian markets mostly lower

-- 2018-05-29 12:30:23

Asian share markets were mostly lower Tuesday, tracking losses in Europe, where investor confidence was sapped by political uncertainty in Italy. US markets were closed Monday for a holiday. Japan&...

Latin America must think about drug legalisation: UN agency

Latin America must think about drug legalisation: UN agency

-- 2018-05-29 11:03:35

Latin America must give serious thought to legalising drugs in order to reduce the human cost of prohibition, the head of a United Nations agency for the region said on Monday. Tens of thousands of p...

France offers citizenship to Malian ‘spider-man’

France offers citizenship to Malian ‘spider-man’

-- 2018-05-29 10:25:24

France offered citizenship to an illegal immigrant from Mali who scaled the facade of a Paris apartment block to save a boy who was about to fall from a fourth-floor balcony, President Emmanuel Macron...

European stocks give up early gains

European stocks give up early gains

-- 2018-05-28 16:33:59

European stocks were mixed at the early trading on Monday as early elections loomed in Italy after the anti-establishment 5-Star and League parties abandoned plans to form a government. The markets g...

Indian equities gain for third straight session

Indian equities gain for third straight session

-- 2018-05-28 15:52:32

Indian equities gained for a third straight session on Monday as a sharp drop in crude prices and a recovery in the rupee boosted sentiment, while shares of Sun Pharmaceutical Industries saw their bes...

Lebanon parliament speaker expects cabinet within a month

Lebanon parliament speaker expects cabinet within a month

-- 2018-05-28 15:48:17

Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri expects a new coalition government to be formed within a month because nobody has an interest in a delay, the newspaper al-Mustaqbal reported on Monday. Saad a...

China's industrial profits hits record high in April

China's industrial profits hits record high in April

-- 2018-05-28 15:25:31

Profits of China’s industrial firms in April rose at their fastest pace in six months as the factories benefited from higher prices and strong demand, data from the NBS has showed. Profits in A...

US braces for subtropical storm Alberto

US braces for subtropical storm Alberto

-- 2018-05-28 14:49:39

Thousands have been evacuated from the coast of Florida in the US as the region braces for subtropical storm Alberto. Anticipated to make landfall on Monday, Alberto is the first storm ahead of this...

Japanese shares give up initial gains

Japanese shares give up initial gains

-- 2018-05-28 12:43:42

Japanese shares were little changed on Thursday on Monday as a further slide in oil prices pulled down energy-related stocks, offsetting renewed hopes of a US-North Korea summit next month. The ben...

Egypt arrests prominent rival leader

Egypt arrests prominent rival leader

-- 2018-05-28 11:24:21

Egypt’s state security prosecutors ordered that a prominent opposition leader, Hazim Abdelazim, be detained for 15 days pending investigation over joining an illegal organisation and publishing...

Asian stocks gain on North Korea summit hopes

Asian stocks gain on North Korea summit hopes

-- 2018-05-28 10:58:31

US oil futures hit six-week lows on expectations major producers may ease output curbs on Monday, while Asian stocks and US share futures gained on signs the United States and North Korea were still w...

Brazil president reduces diesel price to end week-long protest

Brazil president reduces diesel price to end week-long protest

-- 2018-05-28 10:48:09

Brazilian President Michel Temer has lowered the price of diesel in a bid to end a truckers’ strike that has crippled the country for almost a week. Temer said the price would be cut by 46 Braz...

5.2 quake jolts Fiji

5.2 quake jolts Fiji

-- 2018-05-27 15:13:45

An earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale struck the Fiji region on Sunday, said the US Geological Survey (USGS). The epicentre, with a depth of 10.0 km, was initially determined to be at 15.7...

Barnier urges UK to end ‘hide and seek’ Brexit approach

Barnier urges UK to end ‘hide and seek’ Brexit approach

-- 2018-05-27 11:31:07

The EU’s Brexit negotiator urged the British government to stop playing ‘hide and seek’ over its aims for trade ties and warned that delays in agreeing on judicial oversight risk wre...

Dozens die in Cameroon’s Anglophone region

Dozens die in Cameroon’s Anglophone region

-- 2018-05-27 11:18:17

More than two dozen people have been killed in one of Cameroon’s Anglophone regions, local sources said on Saturday, although the exact circumstances of their deaths were not immediately clear....

US missionary returns home after serving jail in Venezuela

US missionary returns home after serving jail in Venezuela

-- 2018-05-27 11:09:07

American missionary Josh Holt, held by Venezuela without trial on weapons charges since 2016, returned home with his wife on Saturday after the South American country’s socialist government unex...

Pakistan seeks economic lifeline with China loans

Pakistan seeks economic lifeline with China loans

-- 2018-05-26 17:42:24

Pakistan expects to obtain fresh Chinese loans worth $1-2 billion to help it avert a balance of payments crisis, Pakistani government sources said, in another sign of Islamabad's growing reliance on B...

BI predicts 5.15pc growth in Q2

BI predicts 5.15pc growth in Q2

-- 2018-05-26 15:36:39

Bank Indonesia (BI), the central bank of the largest economic country in Southeast Asia, has predicted 5.15 per cent economic growth in the second quarter. The economic growth in the second quarter t...

US consumer sentiment falls in May

US consumer sentiment falls in May

-- 2018-05-26 15:10:59

US consumer sentiment index was 98.0 in May, barely below the 98.8 in April and just above the 97.1 in last May's survey, according to the University of Michigan (UM) Surveys of Consumers. The cur...

Dollar rises, oil falls, global stocks steady

Dollar rises, oil falls, global stocks steady

-- 2018-05-26 13:20:15

Global stocks were nearly flat on Friday while political upheaval in Europe and uncertainty over a US-North Korea summit restrained equity markets. Growing expectations of increased oil supply hit...

Brazil president orders army to clear truckers’ blockades

Brazil president orders army to clear truckers’ blockades

-- 2018-05-26 12:57:38

A truckers protest over diesel prices that has crippled key sectors of Latin America’s biggest economy dragged into Friday night, putting drivers in a standoff with Brazilian President Michel Te...

Wall St mixed as oil prices sink

Wall St mixed as oil prices sink

-- 2018-05-26 12:17:20

US stocks witnessed mixed trend on Friday as a steep drop in oil prices pressured the energy stocks, the S&P 500 index and the Dow Jones Industrial Average were slightly lower while Nasdaq Composi...

Russia hacked hundreds of thousands of routers: FBI

Russia hacked hundreds of thousands of routers: FBI

-- 2018-05-26 11:41:48

The FBI warned that Russian computer hackers had compromised hundreds of thousands of home and office routers and could collect user information or shut down network traffic. The US law enforcement a...

Cameroon court jails seven Anglophone separatists

Cameroon court jails seven Anglophone separatists

-- 2018-05-26 11:05:09

A court in Cameroon convicted seven activists from the country’s Anglophone minority of rebellion and acts of terrorism and gave them sentences ranging from 10 to 15 years, a defence lawyer said...