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Foreign Minister Karl Erjavec says Friday that Slovenia was not informed in advance of Hungary’s move and that the fence was “not necessary”.

Lebanon’s prime minister tells the United Nations that the Syrian refugee crisis is costing his tiny country one-third of its gross domestic product and strangling development.

BMW’s stock sank 5 percent Thursday after the German magazine Autobild reported that the company’s X3 xDrive polluted at more than 11 times the European standards, which are looser than USA rules.

To help maintain liquidity in the mortgage market, the committee will continue to reinvest principal payments from its holdings of agency debt and agency mortgage-backed securities in agency mortgage-backed securities, as well as rolling over maturing Treasury securities at...

Reserve Bank governor Lesetja Kganyago has announced that the Reserve Bank’s repo rate will remain unchanged “for now”.

EU’s interior ministers on Tuesday voted by a majority in favour of the quota system, which will see migrants in Italy, Greece and Hungary redistributed to other member states.

The leaders will meet in New York City on Monday since both will be in town for the annual United Nations General Assembly meeting, reports Reuters.

The German luxury vehicle maker has denied any wrongdoing after claims that its BMW X3 diesel comfortably exceeds European emissions standards under real-world conditions.

Hosting a Summit of leaders of Germany, Japan and Brazil under the G-4 format here, he said the UNSC “must include the world’s largest democracies, major locomotives of the global economy, and voices from all the major continents” to carry “greater...

While the MDGs were narrow in their focus (poverty), and aimed primarily at what donors could do, and while they are hardly known outside global development circles, they have achieved something remarkable in the development community entrenching the idea of measuring progress...

Xi, on his first state visit to the US, will be hosted at the White House for a banquet on Friday. “I indicated that it has to stop”, Obama said. But he added warily: “The question now is, are words followed by actions?”

The United States opened a dialogue with Tehran on Saturday over the crises in Syria and Yemen, as USA secretary of state John Kerry met his Iranian counterpart on the sidelines of the UN general assembly.

The US and China may emerge from Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit with some progress made on cyber concerns.

The Dow Jones closed down 65.21 points at 16,674, while the S&P 500 fell 5 points to 1,990.