-- 2018-04-03 11:59:32
The US Justice Department is to impose quotas on immigration judges in an attempt to get cases processed faster, US media report. Judges will be told to get through at least 700 cases a year to be gi...
-- 2018-04-03 11:56:32
Asian shares slipped for a second day Tuesday amid jitters about US-Chinese trade tensions and mounting public scrutiny of technology companies. Most of the Asian markets declined. The dollar tempo...
-- 2018-04-03 11:38:19
Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has been re-elected for a second four-year term, after winning 97% of the vote last week, official results show. The amount is the same as he won in the last e...
-- 2018-04-03 11:14:45
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was suspending a new agreement with the UN refugee agency to relocate thousands of African migrants, as right-wing pressure mounted on him to scrap th...
-- 2018-04-02 22:30:33
US factory activity slowed in March amid a decline in new orders, but growth in the manufacturing sector remains underpinned by strong domestic and global economies. Other data on Monday showed a mar...
-- 2018-04-02 13:18:23
Bahrain has discovered its largest oil field since the Middle East country's first oil well began operation nearly 90 years ago, according to the country’s official news agency. The governmen...
-- 2018-04-02 11:58:58
Japanese stocks were steady on Monday as the market started the new quarter, hovering at a key technical level as investors bought bellwether stocks such as tech shares and index heavyweights. The...
-- 2018-04-02 11:28:47
Islamist militants have launched a gun and bomb attack on an African Union (AU) peacekeeper base in Somalia. Al Shabab fighters detonated two car bombs outside the base in the town of Bulamarer, sout...
-- 2018-04-02 10:48:33
Catalonia’s ex-leader Carles Puigdemont has urged supporters to keep up the struggle as he faces extradition from Germany over his role in the region’s independence referendum. Wanted in...
-- 2018-04-02 10:04:16
Asian stocks began the new quarter on Monday with mild gains following a strong performance by global equities last week, while the dollar held steady ahead of key economic indicators. MSCI’s b...
-- 2018-04-01 16:00:48
Botswana’s new president, sworn in on Sunday as the landlocked country’s fifth post-colonial leader, said he would give priority to tackling youth unemployment and diversifying its economy...
-- 2018-04-01 13:14:48
The governor of Russia’s Kemerovo region resigned on Sunday over a mall fire that killed more than 60 people after a litany of violations in safety procedures left shoppers and children trapped...
-- 2018-04-01 12:40:48
The International Criminal Court in the Hague has taken into custody a man wanted for war crimes in Mali, after the authorities there handed him over. Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag Mahmoud h...
-- 2018-04-01 11:21:47
Venezuela arrested five state police officials for their alleged role in a riot and fire that killed 68 people in an overcrowded police station cell, the country’s public prosecutor said on Satu...
-- 2018-04-01 10:10:40
Four people were killed in a fire at an electric bike shop in China’s capital Beijing on early Sunday, municipal fire department said. The fire broke out at 1:23 am at the shop in Haidian distr...
-- 2018-03-31 14:51:46
Bilateral trade between France and Myanmar hit 234 million US dollars as of January in present fiscal year 2017-2018, the official Global New Light of Myanmar has reported. During the period, the c...
-- 2018-03-31 14:37:07
Beijing will offer 10,000 urban jobs in the public service sector to farmers living in the suburbs this year, according to the city's rural affairs commission. The measure is aimed at accommodating...
-- 2018-03-31 10:59:21
Nervous stock investors are hoping an unusually US strong earnings season can restore some of the optimism that characterized equity markets last year. Imploding technology stocks and fears of a trad...
-- 2018-03-30 12:07:20
The annual industrial output of Thailand rose more than expected in February, boosted by higher production of cars, petroleum, hard drives and plastic pellets. The manufacturing production index (M...
-- 2018-03-30 11:39:31
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will keep monetary policy steady at its April meeting but shift to a hawkish stance by the end of this year and raise interest rates early in 2019, said a Reuters pol...
-- 2018-03-30 11:21:58
The US economy is on track to expand at a 2.4 per cent annualised rate in the first quarter following the latest data on advanced trade data and personal spending, report Reuters. The latest estima...
-- 2018-03-30 11:15:14
China shares barely moved on Friday as gains in healthcare stocks were offset by losses in developers and banking shares. At 04:03 GMT, the Shanghai Composite index was up 0.12 per cent at 3,164.22...
-- 2018-03-30 11:07:08
US stocks closed sharply higher Thursday, with major indexes climbing 1.0 per cent in a broad rally that had nearly every sector participate in the gains and post strong weekly advances. Even so,...
-- 2018-03-29 15:57:35
Germany’s jobless total dropped more than expected in March and the unemployment rate hit a record low, data showed on Thursday, reflecting the strength of a labour market that has become the li...
-- 2018-03-29 15:47:22
Shares in French car maker Renault have jumped 5.4 per cent at the opening of trading after a report that it is in merger talks with Japanese car giant Nissan. Bloomberg reported that the companies a...
-- 2018-03-29 15:44:41
Italian police on Thursday arrested five Tunisians as part of what they said was a major operation against suspected supporters of Islamist terrorism in central and southern Italy. The swoop is the l...
-- 2018-03-29 13:35:15
Turkish prosecutors ordered the detention of 70 serving army officers over alleged links to the US-based preacher accused of orchestrating an attempted coup in 2016, CNN Turk said on Thursday. Police...
-- 2018-03-29 12:17:30
Afghan government forces launched cleanup operations in the county’s eastern province of Ghazni, killing about 20 Taliban militants and injuring 13 others, an official said Thursday. Aref Nuri,...
-- 2018-03-29 11:21:35
Kenyan opposition figure Miguna Miguna has again been deported from the country amid an ongoing row over his citizenship status. The deportation is in defiance of multiple court rulings in his favour...
-- 2018-03-29 11:02:51
Japanese shares edged up on Thursday as a weaker yen lifted risk sentiment, but Takeda Pharmaceutical stumbled after it said it was considering a bid for London-listed Shire that could top $40 billion...
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