2014-08-21
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Asian stock markets were dampened by a weak China manufacturing survey Thursday, but European stocks opened higher. Japan gained on the prospect of a stronger dollar after...
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2014-08-21
The long-held idea that Europeans were the first to bring tuberculosis to the Americas when they arrived in the 15th Century has been thrown into doubt. Instead, a study suggests that the deadly...
2014-08-21
Environmental activist Marina Silva has unexpectedly found herself centre stage in Brazil's presidential election campaign, following the death in a plane crash of Eduardo Campos, the candidate...
2014-08-20
Washington, Aug 20 (EFE). — President Barack Obama spoke out on Wednesday about the videotaped beheading by the Islamic militant group ISIL of a U.S. journalist, describing the murder as "an act...
2014-08-20
KUWAIT (Reuters) - Kuwait detained a prominent Sunni Muslim cleric at the Gulf state's airport on Wednesday after the United States included him on a sanctions list on suspicion that he is funneling...
2014-08-20
KIEV, Ukraine — Government troops fought to gain control of the rebel-held city of Donetsk and a key highway in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday — battles that left 34 residents and nine troops dead in...
2014-08-20
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez. Buenos Aires moved to pay bondholders domestically after a US bank left it unable to do so, President Cristina Kirchner said. "To protect the payments to...
2014-08-20
BELGRADE, August 20 (RIA Novosti) – Serbia is focusing on the fight against attempts to re-export banned food products to Russia, a representative of Serbia’s Chamber of Commerce (CCI)...
2014-08-20
PUNE: World-renowned yoga guru and founder of the Iyengar School of Yoga B K S Iyengar passed away here early this morning following illness. 96-year-old Iyengar had been ailing since some...
2014-08-20
The time for games is over. On Tuesday, America got a horrific wake-up call: Islamic State terrorists released a gruesome video that shows them beheading James Wright Foley, an American...
2014-08-20
Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip have fired rockets at Israel for a second day after fighting resumed with the collapse of truce talks and an Israeli air strike that killed three people in Gaza....
2014-08-20
(Source: United Nations Security Council) Welcoming political progress, UN envoy warns of dire humanitarian situation in Central African Republic Head of the UN Multidimensional Integrated...
2014-08-19
(Close): Apple shares surged to an all-time high on Tuesday helping to drive shares on Wall Street higher for a second consecutive day. Shares in the tech giant closed up 1.4% at $100.53,...
2014-08-19
ALBANY, New York (AP) — Standard Chartered Bank reached an agreement with New York regulators to pay a $300 million penalty and suspend dollar exchanges through its New York branch for high-risk...
2014-08-19
KERNVILLE, Calif. (AP) -- An out-of-control wildfire in Southern California's Kern County has scorched about 5 square miles of dry brush and prompted evacuations in several neighborhoods. U.S. Forest...
2014-08-19
A specially equipped US ship has finished neutralizing all 600 tonnes of the most dangerous of Syria’s chemical weapons components, which were surrendered to the international community this year to...
2014-08-19
Sri Lanka will deny visas to UN investigators looking into allegations of war crimes during the civil war, President Mahinda Rajapaksa has said. The United Nations Human Rights...
2014-08-19
JERUSALEM (AP) -- The Israeli military says three rockets have been fired from the Gaza Strip, breaking a temporary cease-fire amid negotiations over the war between Israel and Hamas. The military...
2014-08-19
Brasilia, Brazil - Environmentalist Marina Silva could unseat incumbent Dilma Rousseff in Brazil's October presidential vote, a poll found on Monday, a stunning political twist after Silva's running...
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