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“Yes, I am running for a second mandate”, Lagarde told France 2 television from the Davos economic forum on Friday, pointing to the support she had already received before officially announcing her candidacy.

A listeria outbreak has caused the death of one person, and the hospitalization of another 11 people in a multi-state spread case that has reached Michigan, Indiana, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and MA. Twelve people were hospitalized, and one person from MI died as a...

One week after the death of husband René Angélil, Céline Dion was joined by family, friends and fans wishing to pay their respects.

Powerball players across the USA had their high hopes of hitting a $949.8 million jackpot dashed in a drawing Saturday, but a number of them did win prizes with face values of $1 million or more.

“The market is very anxious about China, of course”.

The lifting of the Iranian oil sanctions, discussed in the third part of this series, will also boost strategic ties between India and Iran, and we could see India’s demand for crude oil rise in 2016.

The department says aggressive, threatening calls are coming from phone scammers.

Three attackers have been killed in the assault and three others are still on the run, he said without elaborating. Officials acknowledged though that it was more than four hours after the attack began before security forces tried to enter the hotel.

Brazil’s Health Ministry said on January 20 that 3,893 cases of microcephaly, a rare congenital condition in which babies are born with an abnormally small head, have been associated with Zika.

USA stocks rallied with equities in Europe and Asia as the central-bank comments calmed markets after several weeks of volatility.

CHINA DATA: China’s exports rose 2.3 per cent in December from a year earlier in yuan terms, reversing a 3.7 per cent drop in November, the Finance Ministry reported Wednesday.

At mid-afternoon, the loonie was off 0.05 of a US cent at 69.66 cents USA, hovering near 13-year lows.

He described the 60-year-old as “an outstanding leader with (the) vision and acumen to steer (the) global economy in years ahead”.

A combination of lower fuel and other operating expenses, partly as a result of lower shipment volumes, and productivity improvements, helped prop up the company’s operating ratio, partially offsetting the impact of top line headwinds.

City and state officials said the ban applies to all motor travel except for government or medical emergency vehicles.