Section: Dunya TV (Pakistan)
Oil company shares rocked by plunging oil prices
LONDON (AFP) – Shares in energy companies slid Thursday after they announced falling profits on tumbling oil prices, though European markets were mostly higher overall.Londons FTSE 100 index, home to energy majors Royal Dutch Shell and BP, was down 0.17 percent to 6,814.61 points in midday deals.Frankfurts DAX 30 rose 0.28 percent to...
UNICEF seeks $3.1 bln aid for ‘new generation of crises’
GENEVA (AFP) – The UN childrens agency Thursday launched its biggest ever appeal for $3.1 billion to help 62 million children at risk from a new generation of humanitarian crises.The threats ranged from the brutal conflict in Syria that shows no sign of ending after nearly four years to the Ebola outbreak in west Africa and the Ukraine...
Poroshenko and US press Putin on Ukraine violence
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko appealed to Russias Vladimir Putin on Wednesday while Washington threatened tougher measures should Moscow fail to rein in separatists mounting a new offensive in the east of the ex-Soviet republic.Poroshenkos personal letter and US Treasury Secretary Jack Lews warning came one day after...
India’s Ranbaxy quarterly loss rises
MUMBAI (AFP) – Indian generic drug maker Ranbaxy Wednesday reported a bigger loss in the December quarter on falling sales and foreign exchanges losses, as it struggles with regulatory sanctions in the United States.The drugmaker posted a net loss of 10.3 billion rupees ($167.98 million) for the three months to December, higher than a loss...
Elderly Auschwitz survivors urge world never to forget
Oswiecim (Poland) (AFP) – For what may be the last time, elderly Holocaust survivors returned to the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp 70 years after its liberation, to urge the world never to forget one of historys worst atrocities.Around 300 survivors, some wearing scarves in the blue-and-white stripes of their death camp uniforms,...
Survivors return to Auschwitz as leaders warn of anti-Semitism
OSWIECIM (AFP) – Elderly Holocaust survivors returned to the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp Tuesday, 70 years after it was liberated, to bear witness to one of historys worst atrocities for what may be their last time – and urge the world never to forget.Around 300 survivors, some of them wearing scarves in the blue-and-white...
EU threatens new Russia sanctions over Ukraine violence
BRUSSELS (AFP) – European Union leaders on Tuesday threatened new sanctions against Russia over a bloody offensive by pro-Kremlin Ukrainian rebels, backing, the latest bid to pressure a defiant President Vladimir Putin.The decision came a day after Standard and Poors downgraded Russias foreign currency rating to junk because of its eroding...
Inquiry begins into Russian ex-spy’s radiation death
LONDON (AFP) – The most sensational spy tale since the Cold War lands in a London court on Tuesday as an inquiry begins to examine alleged Russian state involvement in the radiation poisoning death of Alexander Litvinenko.The former agent with Russias FSB security service, who was doing work for Britains MI6, was killed with Polonium-210...
Euro ticks up after Greek poll plunge
TOKYO (AFP) – The euro inched higher on Tuesday after plunging in the wake of the leftist Syriza partys victory in Greek elections, while the ruble dropped after Standard & Poors cut Russias debt rating to junk.In Tokyo, the common currency bought $1.1251 and 133.31 yen, up from $1.1234 and 133.12 yen in New York.The unit had briefly...
Euro recovers slightly after Greek polls; ruble sinks
NEW YORK (AFP) – The euro pulled higher against the dollar in late trade Monday after hitting a 12-year low of $1.1101 in the wake of the leftist Syriza partys victory in Greek elections.The choice of Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras as prime minister raised the prospect of tough talks with Greeces creditors over easing rescue terms, if not...
