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  • Tuesday, October 16th 2018 - 08:23 UTC

    US warns Central America to be cautious about relations with Beijing

    Central America has remained the key bastion for Taiwan, with Belize, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua still maintaining ties with Taipei rather than Beijing

    US Vice President Mike Pence warned Central American nations to be cautious when building relations with China, which has been increasingly active in the region. Amid mounting tensions between the United States and China, Pence brought up ties with Beijing as he met in Washington with leaders of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras as well as Mexico's foreign secretary.

  • Tuesday, October 16th 2018 - 07:07 UTC

    Prince Harry and Meghan expecting their first child next spring

    Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex made the announcement, on Monday, they are expecting their first child

    Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex announced Monday they are expecting their first child and many Brits have responded with the same enthusiasm that met news of Prince William and Kate Middleton’s impending arrivals: Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis.

  • Tuesday, October 16th 2018 - 06:52 UTC

    Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft has died aged 65

    Bill Gates said: “I am heartbroken by the passing of one of my oldest and dearest friends... Personal computing would not have existed without him”

    Paul Allen, who co-founded Microsoft, has died aged 65 from complications of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. He had revealed the disease's return only two weeks ago, after previously being treated for it in 2009. Allen had said he and his doctors were “optimistic” about treatment.

  • Monday, October 15th 2018 - 14:34 UTC

    Key Naseed-Jaber, Quneitra crossings reopened as Syria reaches out to neighbours

    Vehicles begin to again pass through the Nasseb-Jaber crossing between Syria and Jordan

    The strategic Naseeb crossing between Syria and Jordan on the Damascus-Amman international highway was reopened Monday, just one day after both countries agreed to it. The crossing had been closed since 2015 when the rebels took over that area in Syria's southern province of Daraa. Also Monday the only crossing point near the Syrian border town of Quneitra between Syria and the Golan Heights, under Israeli occupation since 1967, was reopened for United Nations observers, four years after closing due to the civil war, following a deal between Israel, Syria and the UN.

  • Monday, October 15th 2018 - 08:15 UTC

    FAO food price index down in September because of growing inventories

    Dairy Price Index declined 2.4% in September, continuing its downward trend, while the Meat Price Index slipped marginally from its revised value for August

    Global agricultural food commodity prices fell in September due to growing inventories of key staples. The FAO Food Price Index declined 1.4% from August and is now 7.4% below its level during September 2017.

  • Monday, October 15th 2018 - 08:04 UTC

    UK economic low growth anticipated for next three years, with or without a Brexit no deal

    The EY Item Club predicted GDP growth of 1.3% this year and 1.5% in 2019, down from 1.4% and 1.6% respectively in its previous outlook three months ago

    United Kingdom can expect low economic growth for the next three years, while a no-deal Brexit could dent growth even further, says a forecasting body. The EY Item Club predicted GDP growth of 1.3% this year and 1.5% in 2019, down from 1.4% and 1.6% respectively in its previous outlook three months ago.

  • Monday, October 15th 2018 - 08:00 UTC

    The £50 note will survive in a plastic redesign, announced the Bank of England

    “There is also a perception among some that £50 notes are used for money laundering, hidden economy activity, and tax evasion,” the Treasury said

    The £50 note will not be scrapped and will instead get a plastic redesign, the Bank of England has said. Fears that the largest denomination was widely used by criminals and rarely for ordinary purchases had prompted a proposal to abolish it. But ministers said the new version, to be printed in the UK, would be more durable, secure and harder to forge.

  • Monday, October 15th 2018 - 07:38 UTC

    Countdown for Mrs. May: EU Brexit talks on Sunday faltered on Irish “backstop”

    Talks between Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab and EU negotiator Michel Barnier faltered on Sunday over the so-called Irish “backstop”

    The UK can still make progress in Brexit talks despite serious unresolved issues, Downing Street has said. Talks between Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab and EU negotiator Michel Barnier faltered on Sunday over the so-called Irish “backstop”, which could see the UK remaining in the customs union. However Number 10 said the government was still “committed to making progress”.

  • Monday, October 15th 2018 - 07:17 UTC

    Bavaria's CSU loses its majority in regional election; blow for Merkel's coalition

    Party leader Horst Seehofer said it was “not a nice day”, but only “one side of the coin”: vote gives “a clear mandate” allowing the CSU to form a new government

    Angela Merkel's sister party has suffered massive losses in Bavaria's state elections, exit polls suggest, in a blow to the German chancellor. The CSU is set to lose its absolute majority in the state parliament, while the Greens surged into second place and the anti-immigration AfD entered the state parliament for the first time.

  • Monday, October 15th 2018 - 04:42 UTC

    Two Chilean bishops no longer priests due to their involvement in cases of sexual abuse

    Francis had a private meeting at the Vatican Saturday with Chile's President Sebastián Piñera, the same day the defrocking of the bishops was announced.

    Pope Francis Saturday stripped two Chilean bishops of their priesthood after having been found to be involved in the country's widening sexual abuse crisis, the Vatican said on Saturday. A Vatican statement in Spanish said the pope's decision was definitive and not open to appeal.