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January West Texas Intermediate crude added 62 cents, or 1.2%, to settle at $US51.68 a barrel in NY. Slightly more (43 percent) see prices closer to $50, while 35 percent see them closer to $60.

On Tuesday, the groups called for incrementally raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour over the next several years, saying the move would improve economic conditions for 1 million mostly low-skilled workers.

Going forward, much of the tension over the nuclear deal will fall at the feet of President-elect Donald Trump, who often trashed it on the campaign trail.

With a count already underway in Wisconsin, a federal judge ruled in a late-night order that MI also must begin its recount at noon Monday.

“It (the pact) just continues in a state of not being in effect”, said Shinpei Sasaki of the Cabinet Office’s TPP headquarters.

While U3 is close to pre-recession unemployment levels, U6 remains high for this late in a recovery, indicating that despite more hiring there is still considerable ground to be gained by people who want full-time jobs but can’t find them. It’s the lowest number since...

The extremist group’s new spokesman Abi al-Hassan al-Muhajer, a replacement for Abu Mohammad al-Adnani whom the USA coalition killed in an air strike in August, told supporters in an audio recording not to desert Tal Afar, the town situated on the route from Mosul to Syria...

The United Nations Security Council has approved new sanctions against North Korea aimed at cutting off funding for its nuclear and ballistic missile programs.

Thirty-six people have died after a warehouse fire in Oakland, Calif. this weekend, but the search continues for more bodies inside the wreckage.

“The plane’s two black boxes have been found. Officials did not immediately say how long it would take to analyze their contents”, the article says. Seventy-six people are confirmed dead following a plane crash outside Medellin, Colombia.

Vice foreign minister Han Song Ryol warned the new sanctions would lead to increased tensions between North Korea and its Western enemies, while accusing the United Nations of hypocrisy.

President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday warned that USA companies will face “consequences” for outsourcing jobs overseas, as he touted his early success in persuading an air conditioner maker to keep around 1,000 jobs in the United States rather than move them to Mexico.

Turkey, which has always backed the opposition that aims to oust Assad, caused a strain in its new rapprochement with Moscow when President Recep Tayyip Erdogan recently suggested his country’s military actions in Syria aims to topple the Syrian government.

“Deeply saddened at the passing away of Selvi Jayalalithaa”.

Manuel Valls, Prime Minister of France, has formally declared that he will stand to be the socialist candidate in the country’s 2017 presidential election.