BELFAST - Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness, a key figure throughout five decades of conflict and peace in Northern Ireland, said he was bowing out of politics and would not lead his nationalist party into elections in March.
WASHINGTON President-elect Donald Trump said on Thursday that National Football League team owner Woody Johnson was "going to St. James," indicating he would assume the plum diplomatic post of U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom.
SAO PAULO Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Teori Zavascki, who was overseeing a graft investigation into scores of powerful politicians, was killed in a plane crash on Thursday, raising questions about who will take over the country's biggest ever corruption case.
BANJUL/DAKAR West African armies halted an operation in Gambia aimed at installing the country's new president, Adama Barrow, on Thursday so regional leaders could make one last attempt to convince longtime ruler Yahya Jammeh to step aside.
PARIS France's divided Left will this weekend narrow its search for a presidential candidate, though opinion polls show whoever emerges victor will struggle to head off humiliation in the April-May election.
BEIRUT Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said he believed peace talks in Kazakhstan would lead to local "reconciliation" deals with rebels, a sign of his confidence in a process launched by his Russian allies after the opposition's defeat in Aleppo.
LONDON Zurich Insurance said on Thursday it expects to cut 240 jobs in Britain following the merger last year of its UK life and general insurance businesses into one division.
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| Name | Yield | Change |
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| GB 10YR |
+1.411
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-0.001 |
| DE 10YR |
+0.381
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+0.006 |
| JP10YT=XX |
+0.073
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-0.002 |
| Name | GBP | USD | EUR |
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| GBP | 1 | 0.8085 | 0.8641 |
| USD | 1.2365 | 1 | 1.0688 |
| EUR | 1.1565 | 0.9353 | 1 |
| Index | Last | Chg |
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| Gold |
1,200.90
USD
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+0.00
Exp: Jan2017
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| Copper |
2.61
USD
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+0.01
Exp: Jan2017
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| Brent Crude |
54.35
USD
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+0.19
Exp: Jan2017
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LONDON Britain opened the bidding on Friday for a 2.75 billion pound contract to build a fleet of trains for a new high speed railway project to link London with the north of England, work on which is due to begin this year.
