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Antarctica has no government. 53 nations collectively govern the continent via a treaty. Now, competition for resources, research and tourism is creating tension, the Financial Times reports.
Trump says his administration has started talking to North Korea again following the cancellation of a summit.
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The CEO of Italy's largest utility firm says he's been left stunned by the tactics deployed by Spain's Iberdrola, amid a bitter feud over Brazil's largest power distributor.
Two suspects are sought after 15 people were transported from the scene of the blast, police said.
North Korea's vice foreign minister Kim Kye Gwan said the North is open to resolving issues with the United States whenever and however.
Russia claims that the ground-based missile system is capable of intercepting hypersonic missiles, drones, aircraft as well as stealth warplanes like the F-22 and the F-35.
At least 20 corporate bond defaults have occurred in China so far in 2018, which begs the question of whether or not the day of debt reckoning in China's trillion dollar onshore corporate bond market finally dawning, the South China Morning Post reports.
Iran's five demands to Europe would be difficult for the continent to meet as its leaders seek to salvage the 2015 nuclear accord.
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The European Union's digital policy chief has urged Facebook to stick to its promise and abide by the region's more stringent data protection rules.
The airliner was hit by a Russian-made missile on July 17, 2014, with 298 people on board, two-thirds of them Dutch, over territory held by pro-Russian.
French President Emmanuel Macron said Europe must avoid making the same mistakes as the U.S. and China if the region is to successfully tackle some of the world's biggest tech giants.
The most prominent driver of oil prices over the next two years is likely to come in the shape of a shipping revolution, analysts have warned.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday cast further doubt on whether a planned summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un would take place next month in Singapore, telling reporters it would be made certain next week.
After the meeting with Trump, Ukraine's anti-corruption agency halted a probe of former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, BBC News reports.
A Belgium representative, Guy Verhofstadt, likened Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to a character from a dystopian novel.
Elvira Nabiullina said Russia has developed its own system for financial transfers.
Cisco said the malware could be used for espionage, to interfere with internet communications or launch destructive attacks on Ukraine.
- US issues health warning after employee in China suffers 'abnormal sensations of sound and pressure'
The U.S. State Department issued a health alert after a government employee stationed in China was diagnosed with a mild traumatic brain injury.
Diplomatic tensions and the "aggressive policy" of the U.S. toward Russia are of more concern than sanctions, Andrei Kostin told CNBC.
There’s a new "virtual kidnapping" scam that is targeting Chinese students studying abroad using information found on the internet to come across as more legitimate, according to a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Monash University.
World Economy
Antarctica has no government. 53 nations collectively govern the continent via a treaty. Now, competition for resources, research and tourism is creating tension, the Financial Times reports.
U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross will visit China early next month for another round of talks amid ongoing trade frictions between the world's two largest economies.
Spanish Economy Minister Roman Escolano is not concerned about the recent sell-off in the Italian bond markets, saying there is little contagion to other European markets like Spain.
World Markets
U.S. government debt prices were higher Friday morning, as investors monitored a fresh batch of economic data.
U.S. stocks were generally lower Friday as geopolitical fears following President Donald Trump's move to cancel a key summit with North Korea weighed on solid corporate earnings.
European stocks closed higher on Friday amid continued uncertainty surrounding Italy's government-in-waiting.
Europe: Economy
Investors remain in doubt over the independence of Turkey's central bank and its ability to curb double-digit inflation ahead of national elections in June.
Rising US Treasury bonds and a strengthening dollar are pressuring emerging markets and disrupting the synchronized global growth story of the last year.
Turkey's central bank raised interest rates by 300 basis points on Wednesday in an emergency move to put a floor under the plunging lira currency.
