The Chinese Commerce Ministry said on Monday that it has launched a case against the United States with the World Trade Organization (WTO) over US import duties. The move follows the latest round of Washington's tariffs introduced on Chinese imports by the Trump administration on Sunday. The US began imposing 15 percent tariffs on a...
Looting and violence have spread across several neighbourhoods in South Africa's major cities of Pretoria and Johannesburg, after a spate of overnight attacks that appeared to target foreign-owned shops.
A Tunisian national guard chief and three extremists were killed in a clash on the first day of the country's presidential campaign, authorities said.
Widespread acceptance of Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency would pose a threat to monetary policy in the EU, according to one board member of the European Central Bank (ECB), Yves Mersch. He said on Monday that “Depending on Libra's level of acceptance and on the referencing of the euro in its reserve basket, it could reduce the...
Greece began moving hundreds of asylum-seekers on Monday from a camp on the island of Lesbos that holds around four times the number of people it was built for, Reuters reports. Over 11,000 refugees and migrants, most of whom have fled war or poverty in the Middle East, Asia or Africa, are holed up at...
As many as 33 people are feared dead, according to the US Coast Guard, after a dive boat caught fire before dawn off the Southern California coast.
Some people have died and rescuers were searching for 34 more after a fire broke out aboard a dive boat off the Southern California Coast.
