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Asian shares meander after Wall St gain

Asian shares meander after Wall St gain

-- 2018-04-11 12:09:40

Asian shares were mixed in a narrow range on Wednesday, after overnight gains following conciliatory comments on trade by Chinese President Xi Jinping. Japan's Nikkei 225 stock index lost 0.2 per c...

Russia chopper crash kills six

Russia chopper crash kills six

-- 2018-04-11 11:58:30

Six people have been killed in a Mi-8 helicopter crash in the Russian Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk, the Russian Emergencies Ministry said Wednesday. “The incident occurred at 11:30 local time...

Brazil jailbreak attempt leaves 20 dead

Brazil jailbreak attempt leaves 20 dead

-- 2018-04-11 11:40:04

A number of inmates at a jail in the northern Brazilian city of Belem have died during an attempted mass breakout. They were aided by an armed group outside the jail which used explosives against one...

Global stocks rise modestly

Global stocks rise modestly

-- 2018-04-11 10:58:37

Asian stocks rose modestly on Wednesday, paring earlier gains as optimism that trade ties between Washington and Beijing were on the mend gave way to questions about the next phase of the diplomatic t...

Kenya bus plunge kills 17

Kenya bus plunge kills 17

-- 2018-04-11 10:51:50

A Kenyan official says a bus has plunged into the Siyapei River, causing the deaths of 17 passengers and seriously wounding four people. Narok County Commissioner George Natembeya said Tuesday that 4...

Hospital discharges poisoned Russian spy’s daughter

Hospital discharges poisoned Russian spy’s daughter

-- 2018-04-10 13:48:02

Yulia Skripal, the poisoned daughter of Russian ex-spy Sergei, has been discharged from hospital. The 33-year-old was discharged from Salisbury District Hospital on Monday and taken to a secure locat...

Chinese investment in US falls sharply

Chinese investment in US falls sharply

-- 2018-04-10 13:46:38

Chinese investment in the US plunged last year as tensions between the two countries mounted. The value of deals announced in 2017 fell by more than 90 per cent from the year before, according to joi...

Pakistan shelling kills two Indian troops in Kashmir

Pakistan shelling kills two Indian troops in Kashmir

-- 2018-04-10 12:21:33

India says two of its soldiers have been killed in firing by Pakistani troops along the highly militarised frontier that divides disputed Kashmir between the two rivals. Indian army spokesman Colonel...

Nigeria’s Buhari confirms he’s running in 2019

Nigeria’s Buhari confirms he’s running in 2019

-- 2018-04-10 11:43:59

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari confirmed that he will seek another term in elections next year, ending months of speculation about his future after bouts of ill health. The 75-year-old sa...

Asian markets trade in narrow range

Asian markets trade in narrow range

-- 2018-04-10 11:19:28

Asian shares were mostly higher but stayed within a narrow range in subdued trading Tuesday as global investors continued to weigh their fears about a possible trade war between the US and China. Jap...

Nikkei soars after Xi's speech

Nikkei soars after Xi's speech

-- 2018-04-10 11:12:53

Japanese shares surged in late morning trade on Tuesday, as automakers rose after Chinese President Xi Jinping promised to lower import tariffs on products including cars this year. The comments co...

Malaysia to hold polls on May 9

Malaysia to hold polls on May 9

-- 2018-04-10 11:10:41

Malaysia’s Election Commission says it has fixed May 9 for general elections that could determine scandal-plagued Prime Minister Najib Razak’s political survival. Analysts say the move to...

Colombia detains top FARC leader on drug charges

Colombia detains top FARC leader on drug charges

-- 2018-04-10 10:45:15

One of the top leaders of Colombia’s former rebel group, the FARC, has been arrested in Bogota following a request from the United States. Jesus Santrich, a former peace negotiator, is accused...

Russia’s shares plunge after US sanction

Russia’s shares plunge after US sanction

-- 2018-04-09 20:34:14

Shares in firms controlled by Oleg Deripaska have plunged after the US imposed sanctions on seven Russian oligarchs and their companies on Friday. Shares in the Russian aluminium giant Rusal nearly h...

Alibaba creates 36.8m jobs in 2017

Alibaba creates 36.8m jobs in 2017

-- 2018-04-09 14:56:10

Alibaba Group Holding Limited, Chinese multinational e-commerce, retail, Internet, AI and technology conglomerate, created over 36.8 million jobs last year via its expansive retail ecosystem. The com...

German exports plunge to 2-1/2 year-low

German exports plunge to 2-1/2 year-low

-- 2018-04-09 14:27:13

German exports plunged unexpectedly in February, posting their biggest monthly drop in 2-1/2 years and narrowing the trade surplus, data showed on Monday. Seasonally adjusted exports of the fourth la...

Somali parliament speaker resigns, ending political crisis

Somali parliament speaker resigns, ending political crisis

-- 2018-04-09 12:57:44

The speaker of Somalia’s parliament, Mohamed Sheikh Osman Jawari, has resigned ahead of a confidence motion against him, a lawmaker said, ending weeks of political tension. “We were in th...

Bus hits overpass, injuring six in NY

Bus hits overpass, injuring six in NY

-- 2018-04-09 12:17:38

A charter bus carrying teenagers returning from a spring break trip has struck a bridge overpass on Long island, seriously injuring six passengers and mangling the entire length of the top of the bus....

Japanese stocks shaky in cautious trading

Japanese stocks shaky in cautious trading

-- 2018-04-09 11:57:03

Japanese stocks were nearly flat in cautious trading on Monday as investors kept an eye on the latest developments in the tit-for-tat trade threats between the United States and China. The Nikkei was...

Philippines continues search for 17 missing marines

Philippines continues search for 17 missing marines

-- 2018-04-09 11:55:19

The Philippine coast guard has been searching for 17 crew of a landing craft that went adrift south of the capital, Manila, one of three weekend accidents at sea, an agency spokesman said. Sea accide...

6.1 quake rattles Japan; four wounded

6.1 quake rattles Japan; four wounded

-- 2018-04-09 11:28:45

A strong earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale rocked Shimane Prefecture in western Japan on early Monday, injuring four people in one of the hardest-hit areas, local media reported. Accordin...

Asian stocks edge higher

Asian stocks edge higher

-- 2018-04-09 09:49:27

Asian shares edged higher on Monday as a bounce in US stock futures soothed sentiment even as US President Donald Trump kept up his twitter war with China over trade just a couple of days before Presi...

Ethiopian PM vows to end violence in clash-torn region

Ethiopian PM vows to end violence in clash-torn region

-- 2018-04-08 12:53:45

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed travelled to a region where clashes have displaced nearly a million people, his first trip since being sworn in as premier five days ago. Violence along the border...

French rail workers’ strike halts transport again

French rail workers’ strike halts transport again

-- 2018-04-08 11:50:15

Millions of French commuters and holidaymakers faced another wave of crippling transport stoppages on Sunday, as rail workers protested at President Emmanuel Macron’s economic reform plans and s...

Trump Tower fire kills one

Trump Tower fire kills one

-- 2018-04-08 10:59:50

One man was killed and six firefighters received minor injuries in an apartment fire on the 50th floor of Trump Tower in New York on Saturday, in a blaze that was quickly doused, fire officials said....

Truck rams into auto-rickshaws, killing eight in India

Truck rams into auto-rickshaws, killing eight in India

-- 2018-04-07 14:50:44

At least eight people have been killed and five others injured after a speeding truck rammed into two passenger auto-rickshaws in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh Saturday, police said. The...

Myanmar earns $1.1b from rice export in FY 2017-18

Myanmar earns $1.1b from rice export in FY 2017-18

-- 2018-04-07 14:38:38

Myanmar has earned over 1.11 billion US dollars from rice and broken rice export in the fiscal year 2017-2018 which ended in March, the Myanmar Rice Federation said Saturday. From April 1, 2017 to M...

14 die in Canada hockey team bus crash

14 die in Canada hockey team bus crash

-- 2018-04-07 13:26:25

Police in Canada have confirmed that 14 people were killed when a lorry and a bus carrying a junior ice hockey team collided on Friday evening. The Humboldt Broncos were travelling on Highway 35, nor...

Strong quake batters Papua New Guinea

Strong quake batters Papua New Guinea

-- 2018-04-07 13:08:41

A powerful earthquake of magnitude 6.3 rocked the remote highlands of Papua New Guinea on Saturday, the European earthquake monitoring service reported. The very shallow quake was only two kms (1.2 m...

Russia building fire takes six lives

Russia building fire takes six lives

-- 2018-04-07 13:00:54

Six people have died after a fierce fire gutted a residential building in Ussuriysk in the Russian federal subject of Primorsky Krai, the local department of Russian Investigative Committee said Satur...