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Armed Tunisian police swarm tourist towns
Reuters, Published on 28/06/2015
» Hundreds of armed police patrolled the streets of Tunisia's beach resorts on Sunday and the government said it will deploy hundreds more inside hotels after the Islamist militant attack in Sousse that killed 39 foreigners, mostly Britons.
Greece reels in shock as banks shut
Reuters, Published on 29/06/2015
» ATHENS — Greeks woke up to shuttered banks, closed cash machines and a climate of rumours and conspiracy theories on Monday as a breakdown in talks between Athens and its creditors pushed the austerity-battered country to the brink.
Frustrated Jokowi launches charm offensive on investors
Reuters, Published on 02/07/2015
» JAKARTA — Exasperated by the performance of his economics team, Indonesia's president has personally taken on the job of promoting Southeast Asia's largest economy to sceptical investors, said palace officials and economists.
Pilot of crashed TransAsia plane shut off working engine
Reuters, Published on 01/07/2015
» TAIPEI — The crew of a TransAsia Airways ATR plane that crashed in Taiwan in February, killing 43 people, had shut off the working engine after the other lost power, a source with direct knowledge of the matter said on Wednesday.
Date set for Shell's Arctic oil drilling
Business, Reuters, Published on 01/07/2015
» SEATTLE/WASHINGTON: Royal Dutch Shell could begin drilling for oil in the Arctic off Alaska as early as the third week in July, when it expects sea ice to begin clearing, a spokesman said on Monday.
Swedish central bank makes surprise rate cut
Business, Reuters, Published on 03/07/2015
» STOCKHOLM: Sweden's central bank cut its benchmark interest rate to -0.35% in a surprise move yesterday and expanded its asset purchase programme, battling the threat posed by a strengthening crown to consumer prices flirting with deflation.
Najib, 1MDB slam report PM took $700m from troubled fund
Reuters, Published on 03/07/2015
» KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysia's 1MDB insisted on Friday it never provided any funds to Prime Minister Mr Najib Razak and the embattled premier’s office asserted that media reports claiming he received nearly US$700 million from banks, government agencies and companies linked to the state fund were a "continuation of political sabotage."
Forced labour shows back-breaking lack of reform in Myanmar
Reuters, Published on 03/07/2015
» BUTHIDAUNG, MYANMAR — In the fertile river valleys near Myanmar's border with Bangladesh, stateless Rohingya Muslims say there is no let-up in soldiers forcing them into hard labour, despite the government launching a campaign three years ago to end the practice.
US crush Japan in World Cup final
Reuters, Published on 06/07/2015
» VANCOUVER, Canada - United States captain Carli Lloyd scored a hat-trick inside the opening 16 minutes of Sunday's 5-2 World Cup final win over Japan, enhancing her reputation for scoring in the biggest matches while making amends for a rare blemish in the 2011 final.
Auto-parts shares unwind gains from past year
Reuters, Published on 06/07/2015
» Thai auto-parts shares have unwound all the gains that they made in the past 12 months as heavily indebted households in Southeast Asia's second-biggest economy tightened their pursestrings and refrained from new purchases.