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Death toll from Texas shooting reaches 22

Death toll from Texas shooting reaches 22

-- 2019-08-06 12:14:27

Two more victims of a shooting rampage at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas in the US died of their wounds on Monday, police said, raising the death toll to 22 in the massacre as US President Donald T...

Trump freezes all Venezuelan govt assets in US

Trump freezes all Venezuelan govt assets in US

-- 2019-08-06 11:39:14

US President Donald Trump imposed a freeze on all Venezuelan government assets in the United States on Monday, sharply escalating an economic and diplomatic pressure campaign aimed at removing sociali...

UN urges restraint by India, Pakistan over Kashmir

UN urges restraint by India, Pakistan over Kashmir

-- 2019-08-06 10:48:56

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged India and Pakistan to exercise restraint, his spokesman said on Monday, after India revoked the special status of Kashmir, the Himalayan region...

Turkey says all parties should cooperate in eastern Mediterranean

Turkey says all parties should cooperate in eastern Mediterranean

-- 2019-08-05 15:07:13

Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu called on all parties in the eastern Mediterranean to cooperate with Turkey to solve problems in the area. Turkey has sent two drilling ships to explo...

Taiwan July exports seen stable

Taiwan July exports seen stable

-- 2019-08-05 14:13:15

Taiwan’s exports likely rose 0.5 per cent in July from a year earlier, logging a second straight month of growth, according to the median forecast of 15 analysts polled by Reuters. The island&r...

HSBC ousts CEO Flint to accelerate growth

HSBC ousts CEO Flint to accelerate growth

-- 2019-08-05 13:06:20

HSBC ousted Chief Executive Officer John Flint after just 18 months in that role, in a surprise move that the lender’s chairman said was necessary to accelerate progress of its strategic priorit...

19 die in Cairo car explosion

19 die in Cairo car explosion

-- 2019-08-05 10:56:54

A multiple-car crash set off an explosion that ignited a fire at Egypt's main cancer hospital and caused 19 deaths, the government said. The health ministry said 30 others were injured by the crash n...

Nine confirmed killed in Ohio mass shooting

Nine confirmed killed in Ohio mass shooting

-- 2019-08-04 14:27:18

Nine people have been killed and at least 16 injured in a mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio in the US, police have confirmed. First reports came in at about 01:00 local time (05:00 GMT) of a shooting out...

US ‘very confident’ to build maritime coalition in Gulf: Pompeo

US ‘very confident’ to build maritime coalition in Gulf: Pompeo

-- 2019-08-04 12:40:04

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Sunday that he was “very confident” the United States would be able to build a maritime coalition in the Gulf, despite a lukewarm response from Eu...

Tanzania plane crash kills two South African citizens

Tanzania plane crash kills two South African citizens

-- 2019-08-04 12:28:38

A light plane crashed in western Tanzania on Saturday, killing two South Africans, officials said late on Saturday. The plane with registration ZU-TAF-19 is a four-seater Sling plane from South Afric...

Libyan coast guards rescue 62 illegal immigrants

Libyan coast guards rescue 62 illegal immigrants

-- 2019-08-04 12:10:14

Libyan coast guards on Saturday rescued 62 illegal immigrants off the country's western coast, said the Libyan anti-illegal immigration department. "A coast guards patrol rescued 62 illegal immigrant...

HK police make fresh arrests, city braces for further protests

HK police make fresh arrests, city braces for further protests

-- 2019-08-04 11:17:31

Hong Kong police said on Sunday they arrested more than 20 people after violent clashes with anti-government protesters overnight, as the Chinese-controlled territory braced for more protests and a ge...

Protesters gather in Hong Kong as rival rally supports police

Protesters gather in Hong Kong as rival rally supports police

-- 2019-08-03 14:42:24

More than a thousand mostly black-clad activists gathered in Hong Kong’s Mong Kok district ahead of a protest march on Saturday, as the Chinese-controlled city braced for another weekend of anti...

Sudan’s army, opposition reach deal to pave way for transitional govt

Sudan’s army, opposition reach deal to pave way for transitional govt

-- 2019-08-03 10:52:22

Sudan’s military council and the main opposition coalition have reached an agreement to usher in a new period of transitional government, African Union mediator for Sudan Mohamed Hassan Lebatt t...

Indonesia’s economy likely to grow 5pc in Q2

Indonesia’s economy likely to grow 5pc in Q2

-- 2019-08-02 14:44:11

Indonesia’s economic growth likely to grow 5.0 per cent in the second-quarter (Q2) as soft commodity prices and weakening global trade continued to hurt exports, a Reuters poll showed on Friday....

European shares fall after Trump trade threats

European shares fall after Trump trade threats

-- 2019-08-02 14:21:43

European stock indexes lost up to 2.0 per cent in early trading on Friday after US President Donald Trump said he will impose more tariffs of Chinese goods. Abruptly ending a temporary trade truce be...

Wall St ends lower amid downbeat data

Wall St ends lower amid downbeat data

-- 2019-08-02 14:10:11

Wall Street ended lower on Thursday, as investors digested a batch of negative data that pointed to slowing US economic activity and grew concerned over US-China trade prospects. The Dow Jones Indu...

Trump's tariffs jolt global stocks, trigger rush to safety

Trump's tariffs jolt global stocks, trigger rush to safety

-- 2019-08-02 14:08:09

Global stocks took another beating on Friday with investors piling into safe-haven assets after US President Donald Trump said he would slap a 10 per cent tariff on the remaining $300 billion of Chine...

Trump tariffs ‘backfiring’ on US economy

Trump tariffs ‘backfiring’ on US economy

-- 2019-08-01 13:58:55

US President Donald Trump’s trade war with China is backfiring and impacting the US economy, according to his former chief economic adviser. The tariff battle has had a “dramatic impact&r...

UK to spend extra $2.6b on no-deal Brexit planning

UK to spend extra $2.6b on no-deal Brexit planning

-- 2019-08-01 13:21:31

Britain is ramping up preparations for a no-deal Brexit by spending an extra 2.1 billion pounds ($2.6 billion) to make sure the country is ready to leave the European Union with or without a divorce d...

US accuses Chinese billionaire of evading $1.8b in tariffs

US accuses Chinese billionaire of evading $1.8b in tariffs

-- 2019-08-01 12:48:41

Chinese billionaire Liu Zhongtian has been indicted in the US over allegations he evaded $1.8 billion (£1.5b) in tariffs on aluminium imports. Prosecutors accuse Mr Liu of using the aluminium c...

Mexico lowers growth projection to 1.1pc

Mexico lowers growth projection to 1.1pc

-- 2019-08-01 11:26:38

Mexico’s Finance Ministry has lowered its growth forecast for 2019 to 1.1pc as evidence mounts that Latin America’s second-largest economy is falling short of the government’s expect...

Taiwan calls China tourism ban a ‘major mistake’ amid tension

Taiwan calls China tourism ban a ‘major mistake’ amid tension

-- 2019-08-01 11:01:22

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen on Thursday called Beijing’s ban on individual tourists to the island a “major strategic mistake” amid heightened tension with giant neighbour China. C...

Bin Laden’s son Hamza is dead, US officials say

Bin Laden’s son Hamza is dead, US officials say

-- 2019-08-01 10:14:32

The son of al-Qaeda founder Osama Bin Laden, Hamza, has died, according to US intelligence officials. Details of Hamza Bin Laden's place or date of death remain unclear in the anonymously-sourced rep...

China July factory activity falls amid tariff war

China July factory activity falls amid tariff war

-- 2019-07-31 14:25:08

The factory activity in China contracted in July for a third month amid a tariff war with US and weak domestic demand. According to a monthly index, released on Wednesday by an industry group, the Ch...

Indian coffee tycoon Siddhartha’s body found in river

Indian coffee tycoon Siddhartha’s body found in river

-- 2019-07-31 11:50:26

Indian authorities said on Wednesday they have recovered the body of coffee baron V G Siddhartha from a river in southern India, after his disappearance on Monday sparked speculation he was facing int...

18 dead as bomb hits passenger bus in Afghanistan

18 dead as bomb hits passenger bus in Afghanistan

-- 2019-07-31 11:18:03

An Afghan official says a roadside bomb explosion hit a passenger bus in western Farha province, killing at least 18 people including women and children. Mohibullah Mohib, spokesman for the provincia...

Consumer spending increases in US

Consumer spending increases in US

-- 2019-07-30 19:49:16

The US Commerce Department said consumer spending - more than two-thirds of economic activity - rose 0.3 per cent in June when a fall in car sales was offset by other spending. The personal consumpti...

SE Asian stocks flat ahead of Fed Policy meeting

SE Asian stocks flat ahead of Fed Policy meeting

-- 2019-07-30 12:22:54

Southeast Asian markets were tepid on Tuesday ahead of the US Federal Reserve's policy meeting, while Philippine shares fell as investors locked in profits in heavyweight stocks. The benchmark Philip...

Asian shares rise as trade talks set to resume

Asian shares rise as trade talks set to resume

-- 2019-07-30 11:57:47

Asian shares were mostly higher on Tuesday as envoys from the US and China prepared to resume trade talks, this time in Shanghai. Japan's Nikkei 225 index climbed 0.3 per cent to 21,687.22 after the...