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May vows to keep UK united

-- 2018-03-29 10:55:01

Theresa May has pledged to keep the UK ‘strong and united’ after Brexit as she marks a year to go until the UK’s departure from the European Union. The PM is to visit England, Scotl...

Asia shares sag on lingering tech woes, yen lower

-- 2018-03-29 10:22:23

Asian stocks sagged on Thursday after a tech-led retreat on Wall Street while the safe haven yen was broadly lower against the dollar on Thursday amid perceived progress on North Korea issues. MSCI&r...

SA jails ex-estate agent over racist abuse

-- 2018-03-28 15:48:17

A former estate agent has become the first person in South Africa to be sentenced to prison for racist abuse. A court jailed Vicky Momberg for three years, with one year suspended, for using a deroga...

Diplomat expulsion: Russia to access hostility levels before retaliation

-- 2018-03-28 15:31:59

Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov has said that Moscow would assess the levels of hostility which Washington and London feel towards Russia before retaliating over the expulsion of Russian diplom...

Suu Kyi ally Myint becomes Myanmar president

-- 2018-03-28 14:22:22

Myanmar’s parliament has elected Win Myint as the country’s next president, a week after the resignation of his predecessor. Win Myint, a close aide of Aung San Suu Kyi, has been a speake...

No change to sales tax hike plan: Japan PM Abe

-- 2018-03-28 14:19:46

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has said there was no change to his plan to raise the country’s sales tax hike next year unless the economy is hit by a huge external shock. “If the eco...

RBI likely to hold off rate hikes

-- 2018-03-28 13:18:48

A sudden slump in India’s vegetable prices following a spike in farm production will keep the central bank from tightening policy until the end of the year, analysts say, with inflation now ti...

Ethiopia’s ruling coalition backs Abiye Ahmed as new PM

-- 2018-03-28 13:05:20

Ethiopia’s ruling coalition voted in Abiye Ahmed as new prime minister following the resignation of Hailemariam Desalegn last month, the state-run Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation said Tuesday...

Trump ending Liberians’ deportation protection in US

-- 2018-03-28 11:55:19

The Trump administration is ending a program that allows citizens of Liberia living in the US to avoid deportation. But it’s allowing a one-year ‘wind-down’ period to ease their retu...

Japanese stocks tumble on tech losses

-- 2018-03-28 11:31:16

Japanese stocks tumbled on Wednesday, led by a sell-off in tech firms after their US counterparts skidded on concerns over government regulation. The Nikkei share average dropped 1.7 per cent to 20...

Tech shares pull Asian markets down

-- 2018-03-28 11:15:46

Tech stocks losses, following sell-offs of their US peers overnight, pulled Asian shares sharply lower on Wednesday. Investors are selling technology-related shares on concern governments might tig...

Seven die in Philippines truck crash

-- 2018-03-28 11:05:19

Seven people have been killed and five other wounded after a truck, carrying sugarcane ploughed through a roadside eatery and five parked vehicles in a town in Batangas province of the Philippines on...

US stocks end sharply lower

-- 2018-03-28 11:04:05

US stocks ended sharply lower on Tuesday, with each of the major indexes suffering their fourth decline in five sessions, fuelled by a selloff in the tech sector. Tech stocks have been under pressu...

Mideast stocks mostly mixed

-- 2018-03-27 16:08:39

Mideast stocks were mostly mixed in early trade on Tuesday, while Saudi Arabia’s stock market rose on optimism over its inclusion in the emerging market indexes. The Saudi index rose 0.9 per ce...

Russia to respond appropriately to US expulsion of diplomats

-- 2018-03-27 16:07:27

Moscow will respond appropriately to the US expulsion of Russian diplomats and closure of the Russian consulate in Seattle, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, RIA news agency reported....

Indian railways receive 20m applicants for 0.1m posts

-- 2018-03-27 15:51:50

India's state-run railways have received more than 20 million applicants for about 100,000 jobs, a railway ministry official has said. The number of applicants is expected to rise further as the dead...

China’s industrial profit grows strong in Jan-Feb

-- 2018-03-27 15:33:25

China's industrial profits rose 16.1 per cent year-on-year to 968.9 billion yuan ($154.57 billion) in the first two months of the year, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Tuesday. The...

Turkey forces kill 11 Kurds

-- 2018-03-27 13:20:49

Turkey’s military forces opened fire and killed 11 Kurdish militants after spotting them in the country’s southern Hatay province bordering Syria, the governor’s office said on Tuesd...

Vietnam nabs dissident singer Mai Khoi

-- 2018-03-27 13:01:46

Vietnamese singer and activist Do Nguyen Mai Khoi, an outspoken campaigner for free speech, was detained in the capital Hanoi on Tuesday after flying home from Europe, her husband said. Often dubbed...

Putin blames ‘criminal negligence’ for shopping mall fire

-- 2018-03-27 12:23:51

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday visited the scene of a fire in a shopping mall that killed at least 64 people, and hit out at ‘criminal negligence’ which he said was to blame f...

GSK to buy Novartis’s 36pc stake

-- 2018-03-27 12:17:28

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK.L) will buy Novartis’s 36.5 per cent stake in their consumer healthcare joint venture for $13.0 billion in cash, the partners said on Tuesday. The deal is set to complete...

White house declines Stormy Daniels’ claims

-- 2018-03-27 12:04:00

The White House has denied allegations that Donald Trump had an affair with an adult-film actress. Stormy Daniels gave details about the alleged 2006 affair during an interview on CBS News’ 60...

Australia to oust two Russian diplomats over spy attack

-- 2018-03-27 11:19:31

Australia will expel two Russian diplomats in response to a nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy in Britain that the British government has blamed on Moscow, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said...

Nikkei surges as trade war fears ease

-- 2018-03-27 10:54:45

Japanese shares rose on Tuesday morning as worries about a trade war eased on optimism that the US and China could begin negotiations, helping trade-exposed sectors such as chip manufacturers. The...

Sierra Leone postpones presidential runoff till Saturday

-- 2018-03-27 10:45:27

Sierra Leone's Supreme Court on Monday approved the election commission's request to delay Tuesday's runoff presidential vote until the weekend after the lifting of an interim injunction that had stal...

Asian shares rise as trade war fear ease

-- 2018-03-27 10:44:36

Asian stocks rose Tuesday as investor went on buying mood as the fears of worsening trade tensions eased after China said it is open to negotiating with US. Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 added 1.7 per...

US gunmaker files for bankruptcy

-- 2018-03-26 15:38:12

Remington Outdoor Co Inc [FREDM.UL], one of the largest U.S. makers of firearms, filed for bankruptcy protection on Sunday to carry out a debt-cutting deal with creditors amid mounting public pressure...

Trade war: India and China may warm up

-- 2018-03-26 15:21:03

NEW DELHI: India's commerce minister Suresh Prabhu and his Chinese counterpart Zhong Shan are putting their heads together in Delhi on Monday in a Joint Economic Group (JEG) huddle. The meeting is...

Beijing will continue buying US Treasuries

-- 2018-03-26 15:13:30

China doesn’t seem to fear a trade war with the US. And it has plenty of means at its disposal to fight the war, including the scaling back of buying US Treasuries, or even worse, sell-off of US...

US sends China to-do list to reduce trade imbalance

-- 2018-03-26 15:03:21

The United States asked China in a letter last week to cut the tariff on U.S. autos, buy more U.S.-made semiconductors and give U.S. firms greater access to the Chinese financial sector, the Wall Stre...