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Global stocks rebound as report of US-China trade talks emerges

Global stocks rebound as report of US-China trade talks emerges

-- 2018-03-26 14:53:25

US stock futures led global shares higher on Monday after reports that the United States and China have quietly started negotiations to improve US access to Chinese markets eased fears of a trade war...

Modi app faces data theft claims

Modi app faces data theft claims

-- 2018-03-26 14:00:51

Indian PM Narendra Modi’s official mobile application has been criticised for sending personal user data to a third party without their consent. A security researcher had tweeted that the app w...

Thailand to open service businesses

Thailand to open service businesses

-- 2018-03-26 13:13:07

Thailand is considering opening some businesses in the service industry to more foreign investment, the Bangkok Post reported on Monday (March 26). A panel overseeing the review will meet on Thursday...

South India road crash leaves 10 dead

South India road crash leaves 10 dead

-- 2018-03-26 12:35:26

A vehicle carrying some 14 people, plunged into a well in southern Indian state of Telangana on Sunday evening, killing at least 10 people, police said. The accident occurred in Mendora in the state&...

Asian stocks stumble

Asian stocks stumble

-- 2018-03-26 11:59:08

Fears of a full-blown trade war between the United States and China battered Asian shares again on Monday, keeping the safe haven yen near a 16-month peak as investors fretted over the fate of global...

US sanctions seven Pakistani firms for ‘nuclear trade’

US sanctions seven Pakistani firms for ‘nuclear trade’

-- 2018-03-26 11:57:38

  WASHINGTON: The Trump administration has added seven Pakistani companies to a list of foreign entities that presumably pose a significant risk to the national security and policy interests of...

Trade War: India may be next Trump target

Trade War: India may be next Trump target

-- 2018-03-26 11:29:23

India could very well be the next recipient of US trade action. This was viewed by William Reinsch, senior adviser at the Center For Strategic & International Studies. Reinsch previously served...

Egypt goes to polls

Egypt goes to polls

-- 2018-03-26 11:08:05

Egyptians begin three days of voting on Monday to elect a new president in an election expected to produce a landslide for the sitting president. There are few doubts that incumbent Abdul Fattah al-S...

Germany detains former Catalan leader Puigdemont

Germany detains former Catalan leader Puigdemont

-- 2018-03-26 10:47:10

Former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont was detained in Germany on Sunday, five months after entering self-imposed exile from Spain, where he faces up to 25 years in prison for organising an illegal s...

Russia shopping mall fire claims 64 lives

Russia shopping mall fire claims 64 lives

-- 2018-03-26 10:08:10

At least 64 people have died in a fire that tore through a shopping and entertainment complex in the Siberian coal-mining city of Kemerovo. Many of the victims are children, Russian officials say, an...

WTO warns of disruption to global economy

WTO warns of disruption to global economy

-- 2018-03-25 13:15:47

The head of the World Trade Organization called on Friday for restraint and urgent dialogue within the WTO system to stop trade frictions damaging the world economy, which he said was experiencing a f...

Historic Australia-UK flight lands in London

Historic Australia-UK flight lands in London

-- 2018-03-25 12:55:36

The first scheduled non-stop flight between Australia and the UK has touched down in London’s Heathrow Airport. Qantas Flight QF9 completed its 14,498km (9,009-mile) journey from Perth in just...

Seven die in Rio shootout as army takeover continues

Seven die in Rio shootout as army takeover continues

-- 2018-03-25 12:28:05

At least seven people were killed in a confrontation with police in Rio de Janeiro’s Rocinha favela on Saturday and several others were injured, as an army takeover of Rio’s security servi...

Kashmir shootout kills two militants

Kashmir shootout kills two militants

-- 2018-03-24 14:24:31

Two militants were killed in an overnight gunfight with contingents of police and army in restive Indian-controlled Kashmir, police said Saturday. The gunfight erupted Friday night at Shistargam loca...

Facebook's value plunges $58b

Facebook's value plunges $58b

-- 2018-03-24 14:02:51

Facebook ended the week $58 billion lower in value after its handling of a historic data breach. Its founder Mark Zuckerberg apologised for data breaches that affected 50 million users. The apology...

10 insurgents die in accidental blast in Afghanistan

10 insurgents die in accidental blast in Afghanistan

-- 2018-03-24 13:10:43

An accidental blast in Afghanistan’s northern province of Faryab killed ten Taliban militants and injured four others, an army source said Saturday. The explosion took place roughly at 10:30 pm...

Detention of Catalan separatist leaders prompts clashes

Detention of Catalan separatist leaders prompts clashes

-- 2018-03-24 12:09:39

Crowds of protesters in Spain’s Catalonia region have clashed with police after the Supreme Court stepped up legal action against separatists. Spain’s Supreme Court ruled 25 Catalan leade...

DR Congo refuses to attend donor conference in Geneva

DR Congo refuses to attend donor conference in Geneva

-- 2018-03-24 11:20:06

The Democratic Republic of Congo says it will not attend a donor conference in Geneva next month, complaining the country is being given ‘a bad image’. The meeting aims to raise nearly $1...

Trump signs $1.3 trillion budget deal, lifting veto threat

Trump signs $1.3 trillion budget deal, lifting veto threat

-- 2018-03-24 11:19:25

US President Donald Trump signed Congress’ newly passed $1.3 trillion spending bill on Friday, ending several hours of confusion spurred by a tweeted veto threat that raised the spectre of a gov...

Globalists buck US index fund trend

Globalists buck US index fund trend

-- 2018-03-24 10:37:11

Volatility in US equity markets this year is pushing investors not only to invest in stocks abroad, but also to commit their money to an even more foreign place: the hands of stockpickers rather than...

Car bomb rocks Afghan stadium, killing 14

Car bomb rocks Afghan stadium, killing 14

-- 2018-03-24 10:14:21

At least 14 people were killed and 50 others injured after a suspected suicide car bombing struck a sports stadium in Afghanistan’s southern province of Helmand on Friday evening. The blast occ...

Samsung Electronics shareholders approve stock split

Samsung Electronics shareholders approve stock split

-- 2018-03-23 16:38:21

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd shareholders approved a stock split on Friday making it easier for retail shareholders to hold shares in the tech giant, at an annual meeting also dogged by concerns about g...

Congress, Trump try to pass $1.3tr spending bill

Congress, Trump try to pass $1.3tr spending bill

-- 2018-03-23 12:23:05

The US Congress has voted to approve a $1.3-trillion government funding bill with large increases in military spending, sending it to President Donald Trump, who was expected to sign it into law. The...

China shares tumble to six-week low

China shares tumble to six-week low

-- 2018-03-23 11:38:30

China shares tumbled to six-week low on Friday, as the fears of a trade war between the world’s two largest economies jolted the country’s equity, bond and commodity markets. China and...

Asian shares slip on trade war concern

Asian shares slip on trade war concern

-- 2018-03-23 11:27:07

Asian stock markets slipped Friday as Beijing responded to the Trump administration's tariff hikes by saying it may order higher import duties on a range of US goods, ratcheting up fears of a trade wa...

China raises short-term market interest rates

China raises short-term market interest rates

-- 2018-03-22 17:44:21

China has raised its short-term market interest rates by 5 basis points (bps) following the US Federal Reserve Bank’s move overnight. The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) hiked the interest...

Slovakia president appoints Peter Pellegrini as new PM

Slovakia president appoints Peter Pellegrini as new PM

-- 2018-03-22 15:44:51

Slovakia President Andrej Kiska appointed Peter Pellegrini as prime minister on Thursday to end a political crisis touched off by the murder of an investigative journalist that led to mass protests an...

China stocks slip on trade war concerns

China stocks slip on trade war concerns

-- 2018-03-22 14:02:04

China stocks slipped on Thursday, as the investors concern over a potential trade war between the world’s largest and second-largest economies intensified. The markets fell as the traders diges...

Human Rights Watch warns against rush to Libya elections

Human Rights Watch warns against rush to Libya elections

-- 2018-03-22 11:50:55

Libya is not ready to hold free and fair elections, campaign group Human Rights Watch (HRW) has warned. The country’s rival authorities are planning to hold parliamentary and presidential elect...

Asian shares mixed after Fed rate hike

Asian shares mixed after Fed rate hike

-- 2018-03-22 11:08:55

Asian shares were mixed on Thursday after US stock indexes finished with small losses following the Federal Reserve’s hike in interest rates. The Federal Reserve raised interest rates, as inv...