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Dow, S&P 500 End Week At Records; Dollar Tumbles
Wall Street stocks finished at fresh records Friday following solid bank earnings, while the dollar retreated after...
US Moves To Seize $140 Mn From Nigerian Oil Corruption
US officials said Friday they plan to confiscate $144 million in corruption-tainted assets of Nigerian oil executives...
Russia Lobbyist At Trump Jr. Meeting Denies Spy Past
A Russian-American lobbyist revealed to have attended a meeting by Donald Trump Jr seeking damaging information on...
Lee Leads As Trump Arrives At US Women’s Open
South Korea's Lee Jeong-Eun6 fired her second consecutive three-under par 69 to seize the early clubhouse lead in...
Leader of Afghan IS Branch Killed In US Raid
US forces killed the leader of the Islamic State group's Afghanistan branch in a raid earlier this week in the...
Gulen Blasts ‘despicable’ 2016 Turkey Coup Bid, Subsequent ‘witch…
US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, the man blamed by Turkey for a failed coup attempt a year ago, on Friday again...
AT&T Could Create Media Division After Time Warner Merger
Telecoms giant AT&T is likely to create a separate media division upon completion of its planned merger with Time...
Round of UN Syria Talks Closes With Rivals Trading Blame
The latest round of Syria peace talks wound down Friday with rival sides trading familiar soundbites as the UN envoy...
US Lawmakers Hit Beijing At Hearing On Liu Xiaobo’s Death
US congressional Democrats and Republicans condemned Beijing on Friday over the recent death of Liu Xiaobo, saying the...
US Federal Judge Weakens Trump Travel Ban
A Hawaii judge has dealt a fresh setback to President Donald Trump's ban on travelers from six mainly-Muslim countries...
JPMorgan CEO Being American ‘almost An Embarassment’
JPMorgan Chase chief executive Jamie Dimon ripped into the political gridlock in Washington and said Friday that they...
US Industrial Output Rises In June On Jump In Drilling
US industrial output rose for the fifth straight month in June on the continued rise in oil and gas drilling and coal...
Trump Urges Republicans To Unite, Pass Health Care Bill
US President Donald Trump on Friday urged divided Senate Republicans to "do what is right" and pass a revised health...
Philippines’ Duterte Makes Fresh Rape Joke
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte made a new joke about rape on Friday, saying he would congratulate a rapist who...
Trump Jr. Meeting Included Ex-Russian Intel Agent
Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting last June seeking damaging information on Hillary Clinton from a Russian lawyer was also...
US Has No Proof IS Leader Baghdadi Is Dead
Pentagon chief Jim Mattis said Friday he cannot confirm whether or not Islamic State chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is...
US Inflation Flat In June While Retail Sales Sink
Cheap energy prices kept US inflation flat in June in another sign price pressures remain weak in the world's largest...
Former US President Carter Released From Canada Hospital
Former US president Jimmy Carter was released from a hospital in Canada Friday after being treated for dehydration...
Scores of LLB Graduates Turn Up For Law School Entrance Exams
Scores of LLB graduates have turned up at the University of Ghana campus to write this year’s law school entrance...