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Russian agency offers fake restaurant reviews ahead of World Cup

Russian agency offers fake restaurant reviews ahead of World Cup

-- 2018-05-21 13:19:49

A Russian marketing agency has offered to help restaurants in cities hosting the soccer World Cup use fake reviews to bump up ratings on review site TripAdvisor, the agency’s owner has confirmed...

Asian shares climb as trade tensions ease

Asian shares climb as trade tensions ease

-- 2018-05-21 11:57:44

Asian shares rose on Monday as investors cheered the outcome of negotiations between the United States and China that put a trade war on hold, clearing uncertainty. Japan's Nikkei 225 climbed 0.5 per...

Brazil’s coast guard rescues two dozen African migrants

Brazil’s coast guard rescues two dozen African migrants

-- 2018-05-21 11:31:18

A boat with two dozen migrants from West Africa was rescued off the coast of northern Brazil, officials from the state of Maranhão said on Sunday. A fishing boat came upon the drifting vessel...

Philippines voices concern over bombers’ presence in S China Sea

Philippines voices concern over bombers’ presence in S China Sea

-- 2018-05-21 11:15:04

The Philippines expressed ‘serious concerns’ over the presence of China’s strategic bombers in the disputed South China Sea and its foreign ministry has taken ‘appropriate dipl...

Maduro claims victory in controversial Venezuela polls

Maduro claims victory in controversial Venezuela polls

-- 2018-05-21 10:52:59

Venezuela’s leftist leader Nicolas Maduro won a new six-year term on Sunday, but his main rivals disavowed the election alleging massive irregularities in a process critics decried as a farce pr...

Global stocks rise on suspended Sino-US trade war

Global stocks rise on suspended Sino-US trade war

-- 2018-05-21 10:14:00

Stocks rose on Monday as US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin declared the US trade war with China “on hold” following an agreement to drop their tariff threats that had roiled global mark...

Nationalist mob beats up mayor of major Greek city

Nationalist mob beats up mayor of major Greek city

-- 2018-05-20 14:03:14

The mayor of Greece’s second-largest city Thessaloniki has been treated in hospital after being beaten up by about a dozen people, officials say. Yiannis Boutaris, 75, was kicked in the head an...

China house fire kills five

China house fire kills five

-- 2018-05-20 12:30:29

Five people have been killed in a residential house fire in central China’s Hunan Province on Sunday, local authorities confirmed. The fire broke out in Shijiang Town, Dongkou County in the ear...

Comoros puts ex-president under house arrest

Comoros puts ex-president under house arrest

-- 2018-05-20 10:59:18

Comoros has put former President Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi under house arrest just days after he was questioned over his role in a scheme to sell citizenship that investigators say was riddled with...

US sabotaging polls with new sanctions, Venezuela claims

US sabotaging polls with new sanctions, Venezuela claims

-- 2018-05-20 10:34:09

Venezuela has accused the United States of using new sanctions against its government’s top officials to sabotage a controversial presidential election on Sunday, which the country’s oppos...

Eurozone trade surplus declines in March

Eurozone trade surplus declines in March

-- 2018-05-19 15:56:36

The eurozone has recorded a 26.9 billion euro surplus in trade in goods with the rest of the world in March, declined from 28.5 billion in March 2017, data from Eurostat showed on Friday. The first e...

Morocco's tourism revenues jump in Jan-April

Morocco's tourism revenues jump in Jan-April

-- 2018-05-19 11:57:11

Morocco's tourism revenue rose 18.1 per cent year on year to 2.1 billion US dollars in the first four months in 2018, the country's foreign exchange regulator said on Friday. Between January and Apri...

Putin hands ministerial job to ex-bodyguard

Putin hands ministerial job to ex-bodyguard

-- 2018-05-19 11:47:09

Russian President Vladimir Putin handed ministerial jobs to a former bodyguard and the son of an ex-intelligence chief on Friday, promoting trusted lieutenants with security ties at the start of what,...

Global stocks steady amid political uncertainty

Global stocks steady amid political uncertainty

-- 2018-05-19 11:12:39

World stocks steadied Friday as the political uncertainty in Italy weighed on the country’s stocks and bonds as well as the euro, while Wall Street wobbled amid tepid corporate earnings and tr...

US stocks edge lower on trade tensions

US stocks edge lower on trade tensions

-- 2018-05-19 10:45:30

US stocks were mostly lower on Friday, benchmark S&P 500 stock index dipped on persistent trade concerns, while US 10-year Treasury yields declined from a near seven-year peak. The Dow Jones In...

Cement-laden truck overturns in Gujarat, killing 19

Cement-laden truck overturns in Gujarat, killing 19

-- 2018-05-19 10:33:38

Nineteen people have been killed and seven wounded after a cement-laden truck in which they were travelling overturned on Bhavnagar-Ahmedabad highway near Bavalyali village in Gujarat’s Bhavnaga...

Explosions at Afghan stadium leave eight dead

Explosions at Afghan stadium leave eight dead

-- 2018-05-19 10:22:42

Multiple explosions at a sports stadium in the eastern city of Jalalabad left as many as eight people dead and dozens more wounded late on Friday night, officials said. The blasts occurred at a footb...

Cuba plane crash claims over 100 lives

Cuba plane crash claims over 100 lives

-- 2018-05-19 09:34:53

More than 100 people have died after a Boeing 737 airliner crashed near Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, Cuban state media say. Three people have survived but are in a critical condition,...

Vatican seeks improvements in global finance policies

Vatican seeks improvements in global finance policies

FE Online Desk 2018-05-19 00:00:00

The Vatican says it needs improvements in global finance policies on debt resolution, taxation and transparency to address inequality and prevent financial crisis. “The recent financial crisis...

Japan's exports likely to grow 8.1pc in April

Japan's exports likely to grow 8.1pc in April

-- 2018-05-18 14:46:44

Japan’s exports likely grew 8.1 per cent in April from a year ago, accelerating from a 2.1 per cent rise in March, thanks to solid global demand, a Reuters poll showed on Friday. The exports ar...

SE Asian stocks edge lower in cautious trade

SE Asian stocks edge lower in cautious trade

-- 2018-05-18 12:28:47

Most Southeast Asian stock markets slipped on Friday as investors kept a watchful eye on Sino-US trade negotiations. US stocks ended slightly lower on Thursday as investors grappled with US-China tra...

Asia stocks edge up

Asia stocks edge up

Reuters 2018-05-18 09:56:40

Asian stocks edged up on Friday as investors kept a cautious watch on developments in US-China trade negotiations, with the dollar perched near a five-month peak after the benchmark US Treasury yield...

NZ plans to spend billions on hospitals, schools

NZ plans to spend billions on hospitals, schools

-- 2018-05-17 15:02:23

New Zealand government is planning to spend billions of dollars to rebuild their rotting hospitals, schools and other infrastructure as the country’s economy continues to grow at a healthy clip....

UK rejects chances of staying in customs union after 2021

UK rejects chances of staying in customs union after 2021

Reuters 2018-05-17 15:01:17

A source in Theresa May’s Downing Street office has dismissed a media report saying that Britain would tell Brussels it was prepared to stay in the European Union’s customs union beyond 20...

Japan plans retaliatory tariffs against US

Japan plans retaliatory tariffs against US

-- 2018-05-17 14:19:10

Japan is considering slapping tariffs on US imports worth $409m in retaliation against steel and aluminium levies imposed by President Donald Trump, media reported on Thursday. Such a move would sig...

Stock markets mixed in SE Asia

Stock markets mixed in SE Asia

-- 2018-05-17 13:12:23

Southeast Asian stock markets were mixed on Thursday, while Indonesia, Malaysian shares climbed and the markets in Philippines, Vietnamese slipped. The Indonesian shares edged higher ahead of the cen...

Asian stocks meander after strong US data

Asian stocks meander after strong US data

-- 2018-05-17 12:53:04

Asian stocks were mixed on Thursday after strong factory data from the US helped spur gains overnight on Wall Street. Investors shrugged off a report Thursday of weak machinery orders in Japan a da...

Ebola spreading fast in DR Congo

Ebola spreading fast in DR Congo

-- 2018-05-17 12:23:25

The Ebola outbreak in Congo has spread from the countryside into a city, prompting fears that the disease will be increasingly difficult to control. Health Minister Oly Ilunga Kalenga confirmed a cas...

Michigan State Univ to pay $500m to Nassar abuse victims

Michigan State Univ to pay $500m to Nassar abuse victims

-- 2018-05-17 10:52:51

Hundreds of women sexually abused by disgraced gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar have tentatively agreed to a $500 million settlement with Michigan State University, Nassar’s former employer, attor...

E-cigarette explosion leads to Florida man’s death

E-cigarette explosion leads to Florida man’s death

-- 2018-05-17 10:25:41

A US man died when a vape pen blew up and launched projectiles into his skull, found a post-mortem examination. Tallmadge D’Elia also suffered burns over 80% of his body in a fire on 5 May caus...