The number of people killed when a mountain of garbage collapsed in Uganda's capital last week has risen to 35, 12 of whom were young people, police said on Friday.
August 16, 2024U.S. investors cut their equity fund holdings and boosted safer positions in the seven days to Aug. 14 amid persistent concerns over an economic slowdown and recent market volatility.
August 16, 2024
Ukraine's top commander said on Thursday Kyiv had set up a military commandant's office in the occupied part of Russia's Kursk region where he said
August 15, 2024Hurricane Ernesto bore down on Bermuda on Friday as a Category 2 storm, threatening the British island territory with strong winds, a
August 16, 2024
A strike at Brazil's environmental agency Ibama, which approves oil licenses, is still reducing the nation's oil output by some 120,000 barrels per day even after workers
August 16, 2024U.S. single-family homebuilding dropped to a 16-month low in July, likely weighed down by Hurricane Beryl and an oversupply of new houses as higher mortgage
August 16, 2024President Emmanuel Macron has invited party leaders from France's two parliamentary chambers for talks on Aug. 23 with a view to appointing a new premier, his office said on Friday.
August 16, 2024Irish police are investigating whether the stabbing of a chaplain at an army barracks in the western city of Galway late on Thursday had a terrorism motive, police said on Friday.
August 16, 2024The Brazilian economy closed the second quarter showing resilience after much stronger-than-expected activity data in June, central bank figures showed on Friday, reinforcing
August 16, 2024
Rivian has temporarily suspended production of its commercial delivery vans used by retail giant Amazon.com due to a shortage of parts, a spokesperson for the electric vehicle manufacturer
August 16, 2024A series of Ukrainian strikes wounded at least seven people and set a shopping centre ablaze in the Russian-controlled city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine on Friday, the top Russian
August 16, 2024
The main union at BHP's Escondida copper mine in Chile agreed to management's sweetened wage offer on Friday, leading the union to suspend its strike and easing
August 16, 2024Greece said on Friday that it would partially lift a ban on transporting sheep and goats that it imposed last month after goat plague was detected in the country.
August 16, 2024
Global investors poured into money market and government bond funds in the week to Aug. 14, preferring to stick with lower risk assets while waiting for more clarity on the health of the
August 16, 2024China's Premier Li Qiang told a cabinet plenary session on Friday that great efforts must be made to boost the economy and the country will focus on stimulating consumption, state
August 16, 2024
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Austan Goolsbee on Friday said the U.S. economy is not showing signs of overheating, so central bank officials should be wary of keeping
August 16, 2024Vietnam's ruling Communist Party on Friday added the country's most senior police officer to its elite Politburo, the government said, another sign of the growing political clout of
August 16, 2024Alan Taylor, an economics professor with a focus on international economics and financial crises, has been appointed to the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee, Britain's
August 16, 2024More imported cases of a new mpox strain will appear in Europe in the coming weeks but the risk of sustained transmission remains low, the head of
August 16, 2024
Immigration tops the list of issues that Britons consider most important for the first time since 2016 - when Britain voted to leave the European Union - following riots this month
August 16, 2024Some 17 people were injured in the city of Salamiyah, western Syria on Friday following a 4.8 magnitude earthquake, Syrian state news agency SANA said.
August 16, 2024China will impose export controls on some antimony products from Sept. 15, it said on Thursday, citing national security, adding to measures imposed by Beijing since last year to curb
August 16, 2024
Bangladesh's caretaker government told Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi on Friday that reports of attacks on Hindus and other minorities in the Muslim-majority country are
August 16, 2024
Malaysian police rescue 187 more children as sex abuse probe of Islamic group deepens
China auto association flags concern over dealership losses to government
Hedge funds snap up US tech stocks amid falling rates, says Goldman Sachs
Flood damage Romanian county of Galati seen at $13.9 million, says council
Swiss National Bank to cut rates by 25 bps on Thursday, hold in December- Reuters poll
ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus marries for third time, with ‘Bake Off’ star Sandi Toksvig officiating
Carlos Alcaraz leads Team Europe to comeback victory over Team World in the Laver Cup
Cathay Pacific bans couple after seat-reclining spat