HONG KONG, (APP/AFP) – Hong Kong stocks jumped by the break on Thursday after minutes from the US central bank’s last meeting showed policymakers were cautious about an imminent interest rate hike. The Hang Seng Index climbed 1.6 percent, or 364.91 points, to 23,164.69. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index gained 0.41 percent, or 12.61 points, […]
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Quake rocks Australia tourist towns
SYDNEY, (APP/AFP) – A 5.7-magnitude earthquake rattled popular tourist towns stretching across more than 1,000 kilometres (620 miles) of Australia’s northeastern coastline on Thursday. The quake hit at a depth of seven kilometres about 54 kilometres off Bowen in Queensland state at 0430 GMT, the United States Geological Survey said. Buildings in Townsville city were […]
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RugbyU: South African rugby president steps down
JOHANNESBURG, (APP/AFP): The president of the South African rugby union, Oregan Hoskins, stepped down Wednesday citing the need for change after more than 10 years in charge. “Being president of SA Rugby has become a full-time job and with my term due to end in 18 months’ time I decided that, after a decade in […]
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Angola’s ruling MPLA meets to re-elect Dos Santos
LUANDA, (APP/AFP) – Angola’s ruling party met Wednesday for a massive national congress, where long-ruling President Jose Eduardo dos Santos is expected to be re-elected as party leader ahead of a 2017 national vote. The four-day congress opened in the capital Luanda, with Dos Santos appearing decked out in the signature red of the Popular […]
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Asian justice forum rejects efforts to usurp democracy
ANKARA, (APP/Anatolia): An Asian regional forum for constitutional justice has “strongly” rejected any kind of unconstitutional effort to overthrow democracy in any country, just weeks after the resounding defeat of a violent putsch in Turkey. The Association of Asian Constitutional Courts and Equivalent Institutions, a group founded in 2010, made the declaration in a joint […]
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Israel arrests Hamas election committee member
JERUSALEM, (APP/AFP): Israeli troops arrested the Hamas representative on organising committee for October Palestinian municipal elections on Wednesday, the Islamist movement said. Hamas condemned what it called an “attempt to influence” the outcome of the elections, the first in the Palestinian territories since 2012. “We condemn the arrest of Sheikh Hussein Abu Kweik,” a Hamas […]