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Germany skirted recession in Q3: ministry
BERLIN (AFP) – Growth in Germany is slowing, but Europes biggest economy still managed to scrape past a new recession in the third quarter of this year, the Economy Ministry said Wednesday.Two days before the publication of official gross domestic product (GDP) data, the ministry said that following the shallow contraction in the second...
Russia balks during UN support for Bosnia amid Ukraine rift
In this record photo, Russian Ambassador to a UN Vitaly Churkin (C) vetoes a fortitude on Ukraine during a UN Security Council puncture assembly during United Nations domicile in New York on Mar 15, 2014. PHOTO: AFP UNITED NATIONS: Russia on Tuesday refused to validate a UN fortitude on Bosnia that Moscow pronounced would pull a Balkan nation...
Economic headwinds threaten G20 growth pledge
Brisbane (Australia) (AFP) – G20 leaders will this weekend pledge to rev up combined growth by two trillion dollars but analysts are skeptical of success with key pistons of the global economic engine such as Germany and China starting to misfire, and Japan again at risk of going into reverse.With Barack Obama, Chinas Xi Jinping and...
Monitors fear rising violence in eastern Ukraine
Kiev (AFP) – International observers issued a stark warning over escalating violence in eastern Ukraine as Dutch investigators hoping to recover debris from a doomed airliner left the MH17 crash site with little progress.The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said there was a rising risk that unrest in the war-torn...
Dutch team in fresh bid to recover MH17 wreckage
GRABOVE, Ukraine: Dutch investigators accompanied by armed rebels arrived near the MH17 crash site in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday hoping to recover deb …read more Source: The News...
West confronts Putin at Asia-Pacific summit
BEIJING: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday had a close-up brush with Western anger over the Ukraine crisis and the downing of Flight MH17, a …read more Source: The News...
China wins APEC support for free trade ‘roadmap’
BEIJING (AFP) – An Asia-Pacific summit on Tuesday endorsed a Beijing-backed route towards a vast free trade area in the region, host Xi Jinping said, calling it a historic step.At the same time the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting saw a flurry of diplomatic activity, with Russias President Vladimir Putin — often...
European stock markets extend gains
LONDON (AFP) – Europes leading stock markets rose Tuesday, with traders reacting to corporate updates and keeping a watch over escalating tensions in eastern Ukraine in the absence of major economic data releases.Londons benchmark FTSE 100 index rose 0.13 percent to stand at 6,619.69 points near midday in the British capital, building on...
Fears of all-out Ukraine war grow as MH17 families mourn
Shakhtarsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – New columns of tanks, trucks and heavy artillery rumbled towards the pro-Moscow rebel stronghold of Donetsk on Monday as fears grew of a return to all-out fighting in war-torn eastern Ukraine.The Netherlands meanwhile held an emotional ceremony for the 298 victims of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 which was shot...
Fears grow of all-out war in Ukraine as MH17 families mourn
New unidentified armoured columns rumbled toward the pro-Moscow rebel stronghold of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine on Monday as fears grew of a return to …read more Source: The News...