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Turkish unemployment surges to almost 10-year high in December-February: stats institute

Published On: April 15, 2019 03:00 PM NPT By: Reuters

ISTANBUL, April 15: Turkey’s unemployment rate surged to 14.7 percent in the December-February period, its highest level in almost 10 years, data from the Turkish Statistics Institute showed on Monday.

India gold smuggling slowed by election seizures of cash, bullion

Published On: April 15, 2019 02:59 PM NPT By: Reuters

MUMBAI, April 15: India’s gold smugglers have slowed their operations over worries their shipments will be caught up in seizures of cash, bullion, booze and drugs that are aimed at controlling vote-buying in the country’s national elections, industry officials told Reuters.

EU countries back copyright reform targeting Google, Facebook

Published On: April 15, 2019 02:49 PM NPT By: Reuters

BRUSSELS, April 15: The European Union’s bid to overhaul its two-decade old copyright rules cleared its final hurdle on Monday as EU governments backed the move forcing Google to pay publishers for news snippets and Facebook to filter out protected content.

U.S. to use all economic, political tools to hold Maduro accountable: Pompeo

Published On: April 15, 2019 02:45 PM NPT By: Reuters

BOGOTA, April 15: The United States will use all economic and political tools at its disposal to hold Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro accountable for his country’s crisis and will make clear to Cuba and Russia they will pay a price for supporting him, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Sunday.

Ecuador's president says Assange tried to use its embassy to spy

Published On: April 15, 2019 02:25 PM NPT By: Reuters

LONDON, April 15: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange repeatedly violated his asylum conditions and tried to use the Ecuadorian embassy in London as a center for spying, Ecuador’s President Lenin Moreno told Britain’s Guardian newspaper.

Ivanka Trump honors victims of Ethiopian air crash

Published On: April 15, 2019 01:00 PM NPT By: Associated Press

ADDIS ABABA, April 15: During a visit to Addis Ababa, Ivanka Trump has honored victims of the Ethiopian Airlines crash that occurred soon after takeoff last month.

Strong storms in US South kill at least 8 and injure dozens

Published On: April 15, 2019 12:00 PM NPT By: Associated Press

Powerful storms swept across the South on Sunday after unleashing suspected tornadoes and flooding that killed at least eight people, injured dozens and flattened much of a Texas town. Three children were among the dead.

Sudan protesters demand civilian rule, military council says ready to comply

Published On: April 15, 2019 11:00 AM NPT By: Reuters

KHARTOUM, April 15: Sudan’s main protest group on Sunday demanded the immediate handover of power to a civilian transitional government, saying it would keep up the street demonstrations which ousted former President Omar al-Bashir last week to achieve its aims.

India hopes to avoid US sanctions over Russian missile deal

Published On: April 15, 2019 10:00 AM NPT By: AFP/RSS

NEW DELHI, April 15: India is hopeful it will avoid US sanctions over its purchase of Russia’s S-400 missile system, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman told AFP.

Facebook down for some users: Downdetector.com

Published On: April 14, 2019 05:54 PM NPT By: Reuters

April 14: Facebook Inc’s social networking site is inaccessible to some users across the world on Sunday, according to Downdetector.com, a website which monitors outages.