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UN calls for immediate ceasefire in southern Libya

UN calls for immediate ceasefire in southern Libya

-- 2019-07-10 13:33:46

The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has called for an immediate ceasefire in southern Libya following tribal fighting. "UNSMIL is greatly concerned about ongoing hostilities in Murzu...

Trade uncertainty  weighing on Asia-Pacific investment and growth

Trade uncertainty weighing on Asia-Pacific investment and growth

FE Online Desk 2019-07-10 12:54:14

Trade uncertainty will weigh on growth and investment in Asia-Pacific despite somewhat easier financial conditions, said S&P Global Ratings in a report published on Tuesday, titled "Asia Pacific Q...

24 dead in Papua New Guinea tribal massacre

24 dead in Papua New Guinea tribal massacre

-- 2019-07-10 12:08:31

Children and pregnant women are among those murdered in a tribal massacre in Papua New Guinea's Highlands area. At least 24 people are confirmed to have died in a brutal flare up of violence between...

US to enlist military allies in Gulf waters

US to enlist military allies in Gulf waters

-- 2019-07-10 11:35:23

A senior general has said the US wants to create an international military coalition to safeguard waters around Iran and Yemen. Marine General Joseph Dunford said he wanted to "ensure freedom of navi...

Mexican FinMin quits with critical letter

Mexican FinMin quits with critical letter

-- 2019-07-10 11:00:36

Mexico's finance minister Carlos Urzua has quit over differences with the country's left-wing president Andrés Manuel López Obrador. In a letter, made public on his Twitter account on T...

Malaysia central bank holds key rate at 3.0pc

Malaysia central bank holds key rate at 3.0pc

-- 2019-07-09 15:34:39

Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM), the central bank of the country, kept its key interest rate at 3.0 per cent on Tuesday, as expected. The BNM kept the rate, expressing confidence that domestic demand...

US, Taliban resume talks after Afghans agree to end bloodshed

US, Taliban resume talks after Afghans agree to end bloodshed

-- 2019-07-09 13:03:47

US and Taliban officials will on Tuesday resume talks in Qatar aimed at ending Afghanistan’s 18-year war, hours after a delegation of Afghan citizens and the militants ended a meeting with both...

Japan rejects South Korea’s calls to scrap export curbs

Japan rejects South Korea’s calls to scrap export curbs

-- 2019-07-09 12:01:58

Japan pushed back on Tuesday against calls from South Korea to scrap curbs on some high-tech exports, ratcheting up tension in a decades-old diplomatic dispute that threatens to disrupt the global sup...

Indian shares fall for third straight day

Indian shares fall for third straight day

-- 2019-07-09 11:32:38

Indian shares fell for a third straight session on Tuesday as a proposed tax on the super-rich continued to rattle the markets. The broader NSE index was down 0.72 per cent at 11,475.05 as of 0500...

Asian shares retreat in quiet trading

Asian shares retreat in quiet trading

-- 2019-07-09 11:26:04

Asian shares retreated Tuesday in quiet trading as investors awaited signs of what might be ahead for US interest rates. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 was flat at 21,526.22, while Australia&rsqu...

US approves $2.2b arms sales to Taiwan despite Chinese ire

US approves $2.2b arms sales to Taiwan despite Chinese ire

-- 2019-07-09 10:50:36

The US State Department has approved a potential arms sales to Taiwan, estimated to be worth $2.2bn (£1.76bn), the Pentagon said. The deal is for 108 Abrams tanks, 250 Stinger missiles and rela...

Trump blasts UK ambassador over leaked emails

Trump blasts UK ambassador over leaked emails

-- 2019-07-08 12:46:43

US President Donald Trump has criticised the UK ambassador who said in leaked emails that his administration was "inept". Mr Trump said: "The ambassador has not served the UK well, I can tell you tha...

Asian shares fall after US jobs data

Asian shares fall after US jobs data

-- 2019-07-08 11:33:17

Asian shares tumbled Monday after relatively strong US employment data tempered hopes the Federal Reserve might cut interest rates. Benchmarks in Shanghai, Tokyo, Seoul and Hong Kong all declined, re...

Iran tanker detention by Britain was threatening act: Minister

Iran tanker detention by Britain was threatening act: Minister

-- 2019-07-08 11:25:41

Britain’s detention of an Iranian tanker last week was a threatening and incorrect action, Iran’s Defence Minister Amir Hatami said on Monday in a speech broadcast live on state television...

Sri Lanka on alert as Buddhist monks hold first meeting since Easter

Sri Lanka on alert as Buddhist monks hold first meeting since Easter

-- 2019-07-07 14:23:46

Police lined the streets of the Sri Lankan highland town of Kandy on Sunday and the army was on standby as hardline Buddhist monks gathered for their first big assembly since Easter attacks by Islamis...

Taliban car bomb blast kills 12 in Afghanistan

Taliban car bomb blast kills 12 in Afghanistan

-- 2019-07-07 12:24:15

Taliban Islamist fighters killed at least eight Afghan security force members and four civilians, as well as wounding more than 50 civilians, by blowing up a car bomb in central Ghazni province on Sun...

Hundreds protest against deadly domestic violence in Paris

Hundreds protest against deadly domestic violence in Paris

-- 2019-07-07 12:12:39

Hundreds of protesters gathered in central Paris on Saturday to raise awareness and demand tougher action on femicides in France. Yelling “Enough” and carrying signs reading “Stop f...

Resilient Chinese economy eases anxieties brought by bleak world economic future

Resilient Chinese economy eases anxieties brought by bleak world economic future

Global Times 2019-07-06 20:52:18

China's macroeconomy is at a critical stage as internal economic problems have emerged in the last two years. When we attempted to define the "new normal" of China's economy and chose the path to stru...

Amazon founder Bezos finalises divorce with $38b settlement

Amazon founder Bezos finalises divorce with $38b settlement

-- 2019-07-06 12:45:55

Amazon.com Inc founder Jeff Bezos’ divorce from his wife of 25 years, MacKenzie Bezos, was finalized by a Seattle-area judge on Friday, paving the way for her to receive $38.3 billion worth of A...

Turkey fires c bank governor, appoints deputy

Turkey fires c bank governor, appoints deputy

-- 2019-07-06 12:25:16

Turkey on Saturday fired its central bank governor and replaced him with the bank’s deputy governor, a presidential decree published on the official gazette showed. Murat Cetinkaya, who had b...

Global stocks fall after strong jobs report

Global stocks fall after strong jobs report

-- 2019-07-06 11:51:12

Global stocks were lower on Friday after strong US jobs report and weak economic data in Germany. The US jobs report that tempered expectations of an aggressive interest rate cut by the Federal Rese...

Sudan’s opposition agree power-sharing deal with military

Sudan’s opposition agree power-sharing deal with military

-- 2019-07-06 11:32:47

Sudan’s ruling military council and a coalition of opposition and protest groups agreed provisionally on Friday to share power for three years, bringing thousands onto the streets to hail a firs...

US Stocks end with modest losses

US Stocks end with modest losses

-- 2019-07-06 11:01:45

Bond yields rose and stocks mostly bounced back from an early slide to finish with modest losses Friday, a downbeat end on Wall Street to an otherwise milestone-setting week for the broader market. T...

India unveils budget for FY 2019-20

India unveils budget for FY 2019-20

-- 2019-07-05 12:43:23

India on Friday unveiled a budget aimed at boosting infrastructure and foreign investment, the first since the Bharatiya Janata Party led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi returned for a second term in...

Tokyo stocks flat as investors eye US jobs data

Tokyo stocks flat as investors eye US jobs data

-- 2019-07-05 12:23:50

Tokyo stocks were essentially flat Friday morning as investors hit the sidelines to await the June US non-farm payroll report for possible insights into the US Federal Reserve's rate hike plans. The...

Asian stocks fall ahead of US jobs data

Asian stocks fall ahead of US jobs data

-- 2019-07-05 11:56:45

Asian shares fell Friday as investors waited for American employment data and details of US-Chinese trade talks. Benchmarks in Shanghai, Tokyo and Hong Kong fell while Australia edged up. The centra...

Australia faces 161b USD infra funding shortfall

Australia faces 161b USD infra funding shortfall

-- 2019-07-04 15:14:11

Australia is facing a major shortfall in funding for critical infrastructure, according to a report from the Group of 20 (G20). The report found that Australia has to spend an extra 230 billion Austr...

World shares mixed; Europe advances

World shares mixed; Europe advances

-- 2019-07-04 15:03:25

World shares were mixed on Wednesday, while European shares rose sharply as investors warmed to the announcement that Christine Lagarde will take the helm at the European Central Bank. Wall Street, m...

Indian shares tick up on budgetary hopes

Indian shares tick up on budgetary hopes

-- 2019-07-04 15:01:56

Indian shares edged up tracking gains in broader Asia on Thursday buoyed by hopes of a possible rate cut by the US Federal Reserve, a day ahead of the Union Budget. The broader NSE index was up 0.2...

Chinese state media blames West’s meddling for HK unrest

Chinese state media blames West’s meddling for HK unrest

-- 2019-07-04 13:23:33

Chinese state media blamed meddling by Western governments on Thursday for unrest in Hong Kong amid an escalating diplomatic spat between China and the United Kingdom over protests in the former Briti...