Foreign investors’ role increasing in China’s A-share market: report

Foreign investors are playing a more important role in China’s A-share market in recent years, which will improve market functioning and boost the performance of large-cap equities and consumer stocks, China Daily reported Monday. Holdings of foreign investors in the A-share market accounted for about 2.5 percent of total market capitalization as of June this

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U.S. says air strikes killed 62 militants in Somalia

The U.S. military said on Monday it had killed 62 militants in six air strikes on Saturday and Sunday in the vicinity of Gandarsh in Somalia’s south-central Banadir province. The military’s Africa Command (Africom) said four strikes were carried out on Saturday, killing 34 militants, and two more on Sunday, which killed 28. “Africa Command

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Sudan’s Bashir first Arab leader to visit Syria since war began

Omar al-Bashir expresses hopes Syria will soon recover important regional role in talks with President Bashar al-Assad. Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir has become the first Arab League leader to visit Damascus since the war in Syria began nearly eight years ago. Syria’s state-run news agency SANA said al-Bashir was greeted on Sunday at the capital’s

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UK signs air service deal with Switzerland for post-Brexit flights

FILE PHOTO: Secretary of State for Transport, Chris Grayling, arrives in Downing Street, London, Britain, December 4, 2018. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls Transport minister Chris Grayling will sign an agreement with Switzerland on Monday to ensure air services continue to operate between the two countries after Brexit. Britain is due to leave the European Union in March

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Blast smashes windows, wrecks offices at Greece’s SKAI TV in “attack on democracy”

Forensic experts search for evidence after a bomb blast outside the Greece’s SKAI TV building in Athens, Greece December 17, 2018. REUTERS/Costas Baltas A powerful blast smashed windows and wrecked offices at Greece’s SKAI TV in Athens on Monday in what officials called an attack on democracy. No one was injured. SKAI is one of

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Regional alliance should be reshaped: FM

Doha: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs H E Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, participated in the 18th edition of Doha Forum in the opening plenary session, The Global Order Revisited: Old Actors, New Alliances, with Hassan Ali Khairi, Prime Minister of Somalia; Maria Fernanda Espinosa, President of the United Nations General

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Corrupt Somali Speaker of the Parliament calls for the release of former al-Shabaab terrorist

Mogadishu–Corrupt Speaker of the House of the People of the Somali Federal Parliament, . Mohamed Mursal Sh. Abdirahman on Saturday called for the release of Mukhtar Robow and postpone the Southwest State governor election ahead, Somali Times investigated Corrupt Somali Speaker, Mr Mohamed Mursal Abdirahman been paid through former Somali Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Ali

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Canada’s immigration minister calls out Conservatives for “spreading lies” about UN migration agreement

Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen spent Friday night at Ryerson University addressing what he says are a number of myths surrounding Canada’s recent signing of the UN Global Compact on Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration. Hussen had just returned from Marrakech, Morocco where 164 countries signed onto the symbolic agreement — the first of its kind

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US says new airstrike in Somalia kills 8 al-Shabab fighters

The U.S. military says it has killed eight members of the al-Shabab extremist group with an airstrike south of Somalia’s capital. The U.S. Africa Command statement says the airstrike occurred on Saturday near Gandarshe, a coastal community. The statement says no civilians were involved. The U.S. military has carried out at least 40 airstrikes this

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Somalia uproar continues after former al-Shabab No. 2 seized

Mukhtar Robow was added to the U.S. list of designated terrorists in 2008 and a multi-million-dollar bounty was put on his head.AP file NAIROBI, Kenya — Somalia saw a third day of protests on Saturday over the arrest of the former No. 2 leader of the al-Shabab extremist group, who has been a leading candidate

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