Published on 14.03.2019 at 09h54 by AFP India’s biggest private oil refiner Reliance Industries has capped crude imports from sanction-hit Venezuela, the company said Thursday, following pressure from the United States. The energy-to-telecoms conglomerate has also stopped exporting diluents to the crisis-hit South American country, it told AFP. The announcements come after US Secretary of […]
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Published on 14.03.2019 at 09h54 by AFP Dubai port and logistics giant DP World said Thursday its net profit for 2018 rose over five percent on increased trade and higher returns from new acquisitions. The global provider, which runs port operations in over 40 countries, said in a statement that it posted a net profit […]
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Published on 14.03.2019 at 09h54 by AFP A spokesman for Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas has criticised a US move to no longer refer to the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Golan Heights as occupied territories in its annual human rights report. Nabil Abu Rudeineh called it “a continuation of the hostile approach of the American […]
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TOKYO (AP) — Japanese entertainment company Sega has cancelled shipments of its video game “Judgment,” also known as “Judge Eyes,” after one of its actors was arrested on drug charges. The health ministry’s drug division said actor and musician Pierre Taki, 51, was arrested earlier this week on suspicion of using cocaine. The game made […]
Read More HEJERE, Ethiopia (AP) — The Latest on the Ethiopian Airlines crash (all times local): 10:40 a.m. The French air accident investigation authority, known by its French acronym BEA, says it will handle the analysis of the black boxes retrieved from the crash site of the Ethiopian Airlines jet that left 157 people dead. A BEA […]
Read More BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s top diplomat says the EU expects “significant pledges” for Syria at a donor conference, as the bloc seeks to keep the 8-year conflict in the international spotlight. Speaking ahead of Thursday’s donor conference in Brussels, foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said that Syrians must “not to be forgotten in […]
Read More IN THE NEWS: FACEBOOK INVESTIGATION SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Looks like the Feds are on Facebook’s tail. The New York Times reports federal prosecutors are staging a criminal probe into Facebook’s data deals with major electronics makers. The Times report says a grand jury in New York has subpoenaed information from at least two companies […]
Read More SINGAPORE (AP) — Asian markets were mixed on Thursday after China said its industrial output slowed in January and February, leaving traders waiting for assurances from Beijing. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 was almost flat at 21,287.02 while the Kospi in South Korea was up 0.3 percent at 2,155.68. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng shed 0.1 percent […]
Read More KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan official says residents in a northern city are on a daylong strike to protest the appointment of a new provincial police chief over the objections of a former governor and powerful warlord. The incumbent provincial police chief, Gen. Akram Sammeh, says his replacement, Abdul Raqib Mubarez, landed at the […]
Read More NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian and Pakistani officials are meeting amid easing of tensions to discuss opening a visa-free border crossing to allow pilgrims to easily visit a Sikh shrine close to the border with Pakistan. India’s External Affairs Ministry spokesman Raveesh Kumar says the talks have started after a Pakistani delegation crossed over to […]
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Published on 14.03.2019 at 07h54 by AFP The father of a Vietnamese woman accused of killing the half-brother of North Korea’s leader had washed bed sheets in anticipation of her homecoming after her Indonesian co-accused was suddenly freed earlier this week. But his daughter is still in custody after a Malaysian prosecutor said Thursday Doan […]
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Published on 14.03.2019 at 07h54 by AFP Natalya Nikitchenko was forced to flee the war in eastern Ukraine: now, like more than a million others, she is battling to get her vote in this month’s presidential election. Sitting in the gloomy shared kitchen of a shelter in Kryvyi Rig, an industrial town in the centre […]
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