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The security team for Russian President Vladimir Putin got in a small altercation with the South African security contingent after they wouldn't let the men inside a secure building.
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LONDON, April 4- The International Energy Agency will invite China and other emerging economies to take part in key strategic talks, sources in the IEA said, in a bid to strengthen ties with non-members whose share in global oil demand has rapidly grown.
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April 4- China's influence in Africa goes so deep that African leaders are starting to shape their own agendas after China's. In welcoming Xi Jinping, China's new president, to South Africa last month for a BRICS conference, Zuma gushed, "We view China's success as a source of hope and inspiration."
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*Silver falls to 7-1/ 2 month low. LONDON, April 2- Gold fell to a 2-1/ 2 week trough on Tuesday, moving down with other precious metals due to a session high in the dollar index and better appetite for assets seen as higher risk, such as European stocks.
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LONDON, April 2- Gold held below $1,600 an ounce on Tuesday as a slightly brighter-than-expected reading of euro zone manufacturing activity lifted stock markets, diverting interest from bullion.
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SEOUL- South Korea will strike back if the North stages any attack on its territory, the new president warned on Monday, as tensions ratcheted higher on the Korean peninsula amid shrill rhetoric from Pyongyang and the U.S. deployment of radar-evading fighters.
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BANGUI, March 30- Central African Republic's new leader Michel Djotodia, facing international isolation after seizing power, said on Saturday he would not take reprisals against rivals and called on those who fled abroad to return.
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JOHANNESBURG, March 30- South African President Jacob Zuma will attend a summit of central African heads of state in Chad on Wednesday which will consider responses to the rebel takeover in Central African Republic.
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*Benin says Bozize has requested asylum. BANGUI, March 29- Central African Republic's new President Michel Djotodia, who seized power last week, said on Friday he would review resource deals signed by the previous government and promised to step down at elections in 2016..
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BANGUI, March 29- Central African Republic's new President Michel Djotodia, who seized power last week, said on Friday he would review resource deals signed by the previous government and promised to step down at elections in 2016..
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BANGUI, March 29- Central African Republic's new president, Michel Djotodia, whose rebel forces took control of the capital Bangui last weekend, said on Friday his government would review mining and oil contracts signed under the previous government.
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SEOUL/ WASHINGTON- North Korea put its missile units on standby on Friday to attack U.S. military bases in South Korea and the Pacific, after the United States flew two nuclear-capable stealth bombers over the Korean peninsula in a rare show of force.
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The security team for Russian President Vladimir Putin got in a small altercation with the South African security contingent after they wouldn't let the men inside a secure building.
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*Cyprus to restrict bank withdrawals, ban cheques. NICOSIA, March 27- Cyprus reopens its banks on Thursday while limiting withdrawals, banning cheques and curbing the use of Cypriot credit cards abroad, among measures imposed to avert a bank run after it agreed a tough rescue deal with international lenders.
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*Italian debt auction, Cyprus' capital control weigh. NEW YORK, March 27- Gold rose 0.5 percent on Wednesday, snapping a three-day losing streak, as renewed euro zone worries and hopes the Federal Reserve will continue its loose monetary policy triggered bullion buying.
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*Italian debt auction, Cyprus' capital control weigh. NEW YORK, March 27- Gold rose 0.5 percent on Wednesday, snapping a three-day losing streak, as renewed euro zone worries and hopes the Federal Reserve will continue its loose monetary policy triggered bullion buying.
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ABUJA, March 27- Nigeria has offered to sell a major power station to the Chinese engineering firm that has upgraded the plant, the privatisation agency said, as it aims to end power shortages that are the biggest brake on economic growth.
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DURBAN, South Africa, March 27- China's decision to spend billions of dollars this week to revamp South Africa's rail lines and a major port show the importance Beijing places on making sure African minerals reach its fast-growing industries.
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*Port and rail deal in South Africa is example of ties* Poor African facilities slow delivery of commodities* Africa broadly welcomes China, but calls for more balance By Jon Herskovitz.
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MOSCOW, March 27- Russian steelmaker Evraz. Evraz, part-owned by Chelsea soccer club owner Roman Abramovich, said it had signed a non-binding term sheet to sell the asset, which in 2012 recorded a loss before tax of R300 million. Evraz said the buyer is Nemascore, a black economic empowerment consortium.
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Leaders of the five BRICS nations plan to create a development bank in a direct challenge to the World Bank that they accuse of Western bias. The bank would use $50 billion of seed capital shared equally but dominated by China.