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USA short-term interest rates futures hit contract highs in early US trading, boosting expectations the Federal Reserve may cut interest rates to help shield the economy from any global fallout. The euro slid 2.0 per cent against the US dollar. Utility stocks were the only one of...

The highly anticipated agreement was reported on Sunday, six years after an Israeli raid that killed 10 Turkish activists as an aid flotilla sought to break the blockade on the Gaza Strip.

To try to force the issue, frustrated Democrats disrupted House business Wednesday by literally sitting down on the floor of the House and staying there.

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(AP Photo/Matt Dunham). Nigel Farage, the leader of the UK Independence Party, reacts in celebration at a “Leave.EU” organization party for the British European Union membership referendum in London, Friday, June 24, 2016. Though by many accounts the greatest setback...

Thursday’s United Kingdom -wide vote to leave the European Union was very unpopular in Scotland, where 62 percent cast ballots to stay, and Sturgeon says she is studying ways to keep Scotland part of the European Union bloc.

“Yes, it originated in India”, he declared to a multinational audience of diplomats and global officials. “It does not belong to India anymore”.

(Reuters/Carlo Allegri)A woman looks at a Center for Disease Control (CDC) health advisory sign about the dangers of the Zika virus as she lines up for a security screening at Miami International Airport in Miami, Florida, U.S., May 23, 2016.

Cameron and Johnson both attended Oxford University, where they were members of the infamous Bullingdon Club – an exclusive band of wealthy students who held grand banquets and vandalized restaurants.

Americans often threaten to move to Canada during election years, but “at the end of the day the numbers remain kind of the same”. Someone eligible to vote (having achieved the age of 18) would have had to been born in 1974 or earlier. Clinton took another jab at the...

Foreign ministers from the EU’s six founding states meeting in Berlin on Saturday urged Britain to begin the exit process “as soon as possible”.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday urged citizens with undisclosed income to come clean by September 30.

The Copa América Centenario ends this Sunday with the same final as last year: Argentina and Chile clash again for the South American Cup title, this time at MetLife Stadium, away from the home field advantage that gave the Chileans the title a year ago. “He’s been...

The theme park said there had been a “serious incident” and it was closed “until further notice”. “We can confirm there are injured parties – approximately seven people”.

Atlantic City officials say it will be Thursday at the earliest before the former Revel casino resort can get permission to reopen.