(Reuters) - U.S. stocks fell on Monday as an increase in tensions between Western powers and Saudi Arabia added to worries over rising borrowing costs and the impact of tariffs, following the main three indexes’ biggest weekly declines in over seven months. Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in…
ISTANBUL — The disappearance of the Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi is opening a rift between Washington and Saudi Arabia as the kingdom blasted President Trump on Sunday for promising “severe punishment” if the royal court was responsible. If Saudi Arabia “receives any action, it will respond with greater action,” the Saudi Foreign Ministry said in…
Image copyright EPA After seven devastating years of civil war in Syria, which have left more than 350,000 people dead, President Bashar al-Assad appears close to victory against the forces trying to overthrow him. So how has Mr Assad got so close to winning this bloody, brutal war?A joint investigation by BBC Panorama and BBC…
BAVARIA’s conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) has spent the past months performing a sort of controlled experiment into the state of European politics today. In one of the wealthiest parts of Europe, where unemployment barely exists and the migration crisis of 2015 was handled remarkably well, the party that had governed for decades lurched far…
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was released on Sunday after 20 days in jail where he was held on charges of staging an illegal protest last month. Navalny had been detained since Sept. 24 when he finished a previous incarceration - a 30-day stint for planning an unauthorized demonstration in January. Reporting…
The Saudi stock market has dropped more than 6.8% after President Donald Trump threatened "severe punishment" over the disappearance of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi as its governement hit back at the US. The drop in the Tadawul exchange in Riyadh happened Sunday, the first day of trading. "The Kingdom as the government and people…
Goldman Sachs, which lacked the inroads into Saudi Arabia that other banks had, sent its co-president, Harvey M. Schwartz, along with the head of its Middle East and North Africa business. Endeavor, the Beverly Hills holding company for entertainment agencies, sent its co-chief executive, Ariel Emanuel, to help push along negotiations for a Saudi investment.…
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionJamal Khashoggi: What we know about the journalist's disappearance Britain and the US are considering boycotting a major international conference in Saudi Arabia after the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the BBC has learned.Mr Khashoggi, a critic of the Saudi government, vanished on 2 October after…
TORNILLO, Texas (Reuters) - A tent city in the west Texas desert set up to hold immigrant children has expanded its capacity by nearly 10 times to 3,800 beds since it opened in June, officials said on Friday. The facility in the border city of Tornillo sprang up with 400 beds when the Trump administration…
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionAerial footage shows the destruction in Mexico Beach, Florida Hurricane Michael has landed on a Florida beach town like the "mother of all bombs", almost wiping it off the map, officials say.The storm smashed into the state's north-west coast near Mexico Beach on Wednesday with 155mph (250km/h)…
