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AFP/APP Hong Kong: Asian equities rallied Thursday after US data showed inflation cooled last month, fuelling speculation that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates twice this year. The news sent all three main indexes on Wall…

AFP/APP Tokyo: Tokyo stocks opened lower Thursday after US shares dropped, with a jump in the yen sparking speculation that the Japanese government had intervened in the market for the second time this week. The benchmark Nikkei 225…

AFP/APP Copenhagen: Danish shipping giant Maersk posted a huge drop in net profit for the first quarter on Thursday as Yemeni rebel attacks force it to avoid the vital Red Sea route. Maersk reported a net profit of $177 million in the…

AFP/APP Hong Kong: Asian markets rose Monday, clawing back some of last week's losses, as Middle East worries subsided and traders looked ahead to the release of key US inflation data and corporate earnings after tensions between the…

AFP/APP  Tokyo: Tokyo stocks opened lower on Thursday after hotter-than-expected US inflation data drove down Wall Street shares, while the yen briefly hit a 34-year low. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index dropped 1.07 percent, or 425.06…

News Desk Islamabad: Tensions have surfaced within the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party as political leadership and legal representatives find themselves at odds. According to sources, the discord between the party's legal team…

News Desk Islamabad: Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko has set a world record for the longest time spent in space. According to the report of the foreign news agency, Oleg Kononenko has set the world record for spending the most time in…

AFP/APP Washington: Israel will let shipments of flour for Palestinians through the Israeli port of Ashdod, north of Gaza, the White House said Friday after President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke. The move comes…

AFP/APP Wajima: Japanese rescuers scrambled to search for survivors on Wednesday as authorities warned of landslides and heavy rain after a powerful earthquake that killed at least 62 people. The 7.5-magnitude quake on January 1 that…

AFP/APP Washington: A federal court handed Apple a victory on Wednesday by suspending a ban on the US sale of its latest watch models in a feud over patents with health company Masimo. "We are thrilled to return the full Apple Watch…