Xinhua 2019-12-22 18:14:27
The China-US phase-one economic and trade deal is a concrete step toward de-escalating bilateral tensions, experts have said. "We see the phase-one agreement as modest, but for now, it ends the escal...
-- 2019-12-22 12:39:24
US President Donald Trump has invited British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to visit him in the White House in the new year, British media reported on Sunday. The Sunday Times newspaper reported that...
-- 2019-12-22 11:40:01
French forces have killed 33 militants in an operation in Mali, according to President Emmanuel Macron. Mr Macron made the announcement on a visit to Ivory Coast, where he reiterated France's commitm...
-- 2019-12-22 10:50:54
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has apologised for going on holiday while the country struggled with a mounting wildfire crisis. Mr Morrison cut short his trip to Hawaii as criticism of him...
-- 2019-12-21 13:15:14
Catastrophic fire warnings are in place across the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW), where firefighters are tackling more than 100 blazes. Authorities have urged Christmas travellers to dela...
-- 2019-12-21 11:39:17
At least 18 inmates were killed and 16 wounded during a fight between rival gangs in a Honduran penitentiary on Friday, authorities said, in one of the worst recent outbreaks of prison violence in the...
-- 2019-12-20 14:59:24
The Latin American economy will accelerate slowly in 2020 due to decreased concerns over global political and commercial risks, according to experts. After showing almost zero growth in 2019, the reg...
REUTERS 2019-12-20 13:56:04
Indian shares opened at record highs on Friday, driven by gains in state-run banks, as investors cheered a central bank decision to conduct a special open market operation to bring down long-term yiel...
-- 2019-12-19 15:42:16
Hit by US sanctions that make it difficult to get Western insurers from covering Iranian exports, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Thursday proposed setting up a transport insurance mechanism exclu...
-- 2019-12-19 14:40:38
China and the United States are in touch over the signing of their Phase 1 trade deal, China’s commerce ministry said, which will see lower US tariffs on Chinese goods and higher Chinese purchas...
-- 2019-12-19 13:14:53
Police have banned protests against a controversial new citizenship law in several parts of India. The ban has been imposed in parts of the capital Delhi, Uttar Pradesh state, and some areas of Karna...
-- 2019-12-19 12:21:43
Speaking from his hospital bed in Dubai, Pakistan’s former military ruler Pervez Musharraf said a special court’s decision to sentence him to death in a high treason case was the result of...
-- 2019-12-19 11:19:02
A state of emergency has been declared in New South Wales, Australia, amid fears a record-breaking heatwave will exacerbate the state's bushfire crisis. The nation experienced its hottest day on reco...
-- 2019-12-18 15:46:47
A lockdown in Indian-administered Kashmir has cost its economy more than 2.4 billion US dollar since the government stripped it of its special status, Kashmir Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) s...
-- 2019-12-18 12:51:49
Jordan has said that the European Parliament approved with a vast majority to grant Jordan a soft loan of 500 million euros (557 million US dollars) with a low-interest rate. According to a statement...
-- 2019-12-18 12:44:32
Cuba's gross domestic product (GDP) will see a slight 0.5-per cent expansion in 2019, the country's Economy Minister Alejandro Gil said has on. Speaking to legislatures, Gil said the country's econom...
-- 2019-12-18 12:40:49
India’s top court on Wednesday refused to stall the implementation of a new law that lays out a path for non-Muslim minorities from some neighbouring countries for Indian citizenship, despite vi...
-- 2019-12-18 12:38:28
Indian shares extended gains to scale record levels early on Wednesday, as a weaker rupee boosted IT stocks and on optimism that the initial Sino-US trade pact will allay one of the major risks to glo...
-- 2019-12-18 12:33:59
China's central bank pumped 200 billion yuan (about 28.57 billion US dollars) into the financial system Wednesday, after a suspension of reverse repos that lasted for 20 straight trading days. The Pe...
-- 2019-12-18 12:10:51
The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) has adjusted its daily reference exchange rate between Vietnamese dong and US dollar down by 4 Vietnamese dong to 23,158 Vietnamese dong per US dollar. With the curren...
-- 2019-12-18 12:09:33
A Japanese court on Wednesday ordered prominent reporter Noriyuki Yamaguchi to pay 3.3 million yen ($30,375) in damages to journalist Shiori Ito in a civil lawsuit over her allegations he had raped he...
-- 2019-12-18 10:56:54
Twelve inmates were killed and about a dozen more were wounded in a gunfight Tuesday inside a prison in the capital, Panamanian authorities said. The shooting occurred in a cell block that holds inma...
-- 2019-12-18 10:49:12
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has reacted with defiance to widespread protests against a new citizenship law. The law offers citizenship to non-Muslims from three nearby countries. The governm...
-- 2019-12-17 13:52:35
A special court in Islamabad on Tuesday found former military ruler retired Gen Pervez Musharraf guilty of high treason and handed him death sentence — a first in Pakistan's history. A three-me...
-- 2019-12-17 13:05:03
China has protested against Malaysia filing a submission with the United Nations last week seeking to establish the limits of Malaysia's continental shelf in the northern part of the disputed South Ch...
-- 2019-12-17 11:24:12
Estonia's president has apologised after the country's interior minister described Finland's new prime minister as "a sales girl". President Kersti Kaljulaid said she was "embarrassed" by the comment...
-- 2019-12-17 10:49:33
Protests over a new Indian citizenship law based on religion spread to student campuses on Monday as critics said the Hindu nationalist government was pushing a partisan agenda in conflict with the co...
-- 2019-12-17 10:35:18
Amazon.com Inc is temporarily blocking third-party sellers from using FedEx Corp’s ground delivery network to handle Prime shipments as it strives to hit accelerated delivery deadlines this holi...
-- 2019-12-16 20:57:17
Canada’s Equinox Gold Corp will buy rival Leagold Mining Corp for C$769.3 million ($578.38 million), the company said on Monday, the latest consolidation in the industry that has seen deals wort...
-- 2019-12-16 16:59:56
European shares hit an all-time high on Monday as a “totally done” initial trade deal between the United States and China kept the momentum rolling after a rally last week spurred by Brita...
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