Category: World

China allowed its yuan to sink on Monday while US President Donald Trump said the two sides will talk “very seriously” about their war over trade and technology following tit-for-tat tariff hikes and Trump’s threat to order American companies to stop doing business with China. The escalations prompted warnings that the chances of a settlement […]

Shares mostly fell on Monday after the latest escalation in the US-China trade war renewed uncertainties about global economies, as well as questions over what President Donald Trump might say next. France’s CAC 40 recouped early losses to inch up nearly 0.1pc in early trading to 5,330.86, while Germany’s DAX fell nearly 0.2pc to 11,589.71. […]

Hong Kong police said on Monday they arrested 36 people, the youngest aged 12, after violence during anti-government demonstrations escalated as protesters hurled Molotov cocktails at security forces who responded with water cannon and tear gas. Sunday’s protests saw some of the fiercest clashes yet between police and demonstrators since protests escalated in mid-June over […]

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi received the United Arab Emirates’ highest civilian honour during a visit on Saturday to the oil-rich Gulf nation, reinforcing ties between the countries even as he faces criticism over stripping occupied Kashmir of its autonomy. The induction of Modi into the Order of Zayed shows the importance the UAE places on India, […]

Arun Jaitley, India’s former finance minister and a key member of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first-term cabinet, has died. He was 66. A statement by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences announced Jaitley’s death on Saturday. He was admitted to a New Delhi hospital two weeks ago after he complained of breathlessness and restlessness. […]

North Korea on Saturday fired what appeared to be two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea after vowing to remain the biggest “threat” to the United States and branding Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as “toxin.” It was the latest in a series of short-range missile tests the nuclear-armed nation has carried out in recent […]

Prime Minister Imran Khan held a telephonic conversation with German Chancellor Angela Merkel to discuss India’s actions aimed at altering the disputed status of Indian occupied Kashmir and changing its demographic structure. The prime minister on Friday said that India’s actions are in direct contravention of United Nations Security Council resolutions, international law and its […]

Hong Kong riot cops fired tear gas and baton-charged protesters who retaliated with a barrage of stones, bottles and bamboo poles on Saturday, as a standoff in a working-class neighbourhood descended into violence, breaking an uneasy peace that had lasted several days. Earlier thousands of demonstrators, many wearing hard hats and gas masks, marched through […]

The administration of Indian-occupied Kashmir on Saturday sent back a delegation of India’s top opposition leaders, including former Congress president Rahul Gandhi, shortly after they landed in Srinagar, Hindustan Times reported. The opposition leaders had intended to visit Kashmir to assess the situation in the wake of the BJP government’s decision to revoke the occupied region’s special […]

David H. Koch, executive vice president of Koch Industries Inc. and a long-time philanthropist, has died at age 79. His older brother, Charles, the death on Friday, saying, “It is with a heavy heart that I now must inform you of David’s death.” Koch amassed his vast wealth with a large ownership stake in Koch […]