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Asian shares dip on geopolitical tensions

Asian shares dip on geopolitical tensions

-- 2019-09-23 12:29:59

Most Asian share markets slipped on Monday as investors waited for more clarity on the Sino-US trade talks after recent negotiations, while oil gained more than 1.0 per cent as Middle East tensions re...

Buildings set ablaze amid fresh unrest in Indonesia's Papua

Buildings set ablaze amid fresh unrest in Indonesia's Papua

-- 2019-09-23 12:02:29

Indonesian security forces were battling on Monday to restore order in a town in the easternmost province of Papua, a police spokesman said, following media reports of buildings set ablaze and gunfire...

Rare protests in Egypt after online call for dissent

Rare protests in Egypt after online call for dissent

-- 2019-09-21 14:49:04

Hundreds protested in central Cairo and several other Egyptian cities late on Friday against President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, responding to an online call for a demonstration against government corrupt...

A big fiscal splash still a step too far for Europe

A big fiscal splash still a step too far for Europe

-- 2019-09-21 14:31:44

Prodded by worries about the worst global economic outlook in a decade and electorates still smarting from years of austerity, euro zone governments are starting to loosen their budgetary purse string...

Germany plans €54 billion climate deal

Germany plans €54 billion climate deal

-- 2019-09-21 13:03:08

Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition government has agreed to set a price on carbon emissions in a bid to meet a 2030 climate target of cutting greenhouse gases by 55.0 per cent on 1990 levels. The p...

Four Chinese speaking tourists dead in US bus crash

Four Chinese speaking tourists dead in US bus crash

Xinhua 2019-09-21 11:42:33

At least four Chinese speaking tourists were confirmed dead in a tour bus crash near Bryce Canyon National Park in US state of Utah on Friday, according to Utah Highway Patrol (UHP). A total of 30 pe...

US to send troops to Saudi Arabia

US to send troops to Saudi Arabia

-- 2019-09-21 11:24:49

The US has announced plans to send forces to Saudi Arabia in the wake of attacks against the country's oil infrastructure. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper told reporters the deployment would be "defe...

European Parliament for arms embargo on Myanmar

European Parliament for arms embargo on Myanmar

-- 2019-09-21 10:48:47

The European Parliament (EP) has reiterated its call on the UN Security Council (UNSC) to impose a “global comprehensive arms embargo” on Myanmar. It also called for suspending all direct...

Global growth to hit 11-year low: OECD

Global growth to hit 11-year low: OECD

-- 2019-09-20 14:07:21

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has predicted further slowdown in the global economy this year and in 2020, citing escalating trade tension and high policy uncertain...

BOJ holds rate amid global uncertainties

BOJ holds rate amid global uncertainties

-- 2019-09-19 14:48:41

The Bank of Japan (BOJ) has voted to leave its ultra-easy monetary policy unchanged at the conclusion of its two-day policy-setting meeting. The central bank on Thursday took the decision despite a n...

Taliban car bomb kills 20 in Afghanistan

Taliban car bomb kills 20 in Afghanistan

-- 2019-09-19 12:43:37

A Taliban truck bomb killed at least 20 people and wounded 95 others when it exploded near a hospital in southern Afghanistan, an official said. The Taliban, who have been carrying out nearly daily a...

Trudeau apologises for wearing brown face make-up in 2001

Trudeau apologises for wearing brown face make-up in 2001

-- 2019-09-19 11:41:42

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau apologised on Wednesday for wearing brown face make-up in 2001 after an embarrassing picture emerged less than five weeks before an election in which he faces a...

Three dead during Monte Carlo-Venice boat race

Three dead during Monte Carlo-Venice boat race

-- 2019-09-18 14:44:46

At least three people, including two Britons, have died after a boating accident in the Italian city of Venice. Local media report that a speedboat hit an artificial dam on Tuesday night during a boa...

Netanyahu teetering in close election race

Netanyahu teetering in close election race

-- 2019-09-18 13:08:22

Israel’s election remained too close to call Wednesday morning, with television stations carrying unofficial results showing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tied with his main rival, former mi...

Canada posts budget deficit of $10b in FY2018-19

Canada posts budget deficit of $10b in FY2018-19

-- 2019-09-18 12:50:39

Canada ended the fiscal year 2018-2019 with a deficit of 14 billion Canadian dollars (10.6 billion US dollars) on March 31, said the Finance Department Tuesday. In fiscal year 2017-2018, Canada saw a...

Mexican authorities find 29 bodies in plastic bags

Mexican authorities find 29 bodies in plastic bags

-- 2019-09-18 11:53:11

Mexican authorities said on Tuesday they had found 29 bodies, packed in more than a hundred plastic bags, dumped in a clandestine grave in the violent western state of Jalisco. Murders in Mexico jump...

Open your eyes: UN envoy to Suu Kyi

Open your eyes: UN envoy to Suu Kyi

-- 2019-09-18 10:54:27

A UN human rights expert has implored Myanmar’s civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi to ‘feel with her heart before it is too late’, saying that even if Rohingyas wished to return they h...

15 die as truck falls off cliff in Philippines

15 die as truck falls off cliff in Philippines

-- 2019-09-17 14:22:00

Philippine police say at least 15 villagers were killed and several others injured when the truck they were riding in lost control and fell off a cliff in a remote mountain village in the country&rsqu...

ADB President Takehiko Nakao announces resignation

ADB President Takehiko Nakao announces resignation

Xinhua 2019-09-17 13:52:41

Takehiko Nakao announced his resignation on Tuesday as the president of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), effective Jan. 16, 2020. Nakao assumed office as the bank's president on April 28, 2013.

US reaches trade deals with Japan

US reaches trade deals with Japan

Reuters 2019-09-17 13:23:38

US President Donald Trump said on Monday Washington had struck trade agreements with Tokyo that could be implemented without congressional approval, but stopped short of assuring Japan that new tariff...

Trump says he doesn’t want war after Saudi oil plant attack

Trump says he doesn’t want war after Saudi oil plant attack

-- 2019-09-17 11:17:30

US President Donald Trump said on Monday it looked like Iran was behind attacks on oil plants in Saudi Arabia but stressed he did not want to go to war, as the attacks sent oil prices soaring and rais...

There will be no Rouhani-Trump meeting at UN: Iran

There will be no Rouhani-Trump meeting at UN: Iran

-- 2019-09-16 13:20:19

Iran said on Monday there would be no meeting between Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and his US counterpart Donald Trump at the United Nations, Iranian state television reported, after the White Hou...

Dozens feared dead in DR Congo boat accident

Dozens feared dead in DR Congo boat accident

-- 2019-09-16 12:24:48

At least 34 people are feared drowned after a boat sank on the River Congo. Police said 76 passengers were rescued from the whaleboat - a flat-bottomed vessel used to transport people on lakes and ri...

UK will reject Brexit delay, Johnson to tell Juncker

UK will reject Brexit delay, Johnson to tell Juncker

-- 2019-09-16 12:07:56

The UK is not prepared to postpone Brexit beyond the current 31 October deadline, Boris Johnson is to tell European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker at talks on Monday. The lunchtime meeting...

Pound climbs to highest level since July

Pound climbs to highest level since July

-- 2019-09-15 16:33:47

The pound has hit its highest level against the dollar since July in Britain amid hopes a no-deal Brexit can be avoided. Sterling jumped more than 1 per cent on Friday to over $1.24 against the dolla...

Saudi stocks plunge after attack on oil plants

Saudi stocks plunge after attack on oil plants

Reuters 2019-09-15 14:02:39

Saudi stocks .TASI opened 2.3 per cent lower on Sunday, reacting to news of attack on two plants at the heart of the kingdom’s oil industry on Saturday, knocking out more than half Saudi output....

Voting begins in Tunisian presidential poll

Voting begins in Tunisian presidential poll

-- 2019-09-15 13:59:03

Tunisians began casting votes in an unpredictable presidential election on Sunday where there is no overwhelming front-runner, with the young democracy’s economic ills dominating the agenda. Po...

Taliban revoke ban on Red Cross

Taliban revoke ban on Red Cross

-- 2019-09-15 12:48:18

The Taliban on Sunday revoked their ban on the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Afghanistan and gave a guarantee of security for its staff doing humanitarian work in areas under thei...

Osama bin Laden's son Hamza killed in US raid, Trump says

Osama bin Laden's son Hamza killed in US raid, Trump says

-- 2019-09-15 11:39:09

Hamza bin Laden, a son of slain al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and himself a notable figure in the militant group, was killed in a US counterterrorism operation, President Donald Trump said on Saturd...

Fires from drone attacks on Aramco oil plants ‘under control’

Fires from drone attacks on Aramco oil plants ‘under control’

-- 2019-09-14 12:07:45

Drone attacks on two Saudi Aramco factories in Abqaiq and Khurais provinces on Saturday sparked fires that the state oil company brought under control, the Saudi interior ministry spokesman said witho...