Market sentiments have been buoyed by U.S. Labor Department data this week showing a slowdown in consumer and producer prices in July following a series of interest rate hikes by the Fed.
Rushdie was taken by helicopter to a hospital but his condition was not yet known, police said.
An Associated Press reporter witnessed a man storm the stage at the Chautauqua Institution and begin punching or stabbing Salman Rushdie as he was being introduced
The data released by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), which is the central bank of the country, said that the country's foreign reserves have dropped by $555 million or 6.6 percent on a weekly basis due to increased debt payments and a lack of external financing this month.
As investors reduced their expectations for how high U.S. interest rates and inflation can go, U.S. stock index futures pointed to a good start to Wall Street on Friday and pointed to a fourth straight week of gains for global equities.
Serbia’s strongman leader, Aleksandar Vucic, is fed up with being reviled as a “little Putin” intent on aggression against his country’s fragile neighbors in the Balkans.
Stéphane Dujarric, a spokesperson for the UN secretary general’s office, said that unblocking Ukrainian ports had already driven global food prices down, which would eventually help countries facing food insecurity.
According to a senior Iranian diplomat quoted by the official Iranian news agency IRNA on Friday, the European Union's plan to resurrect the 2015 Iran nuclear deal can be acceptable if it offers assurances on Tehran's fundamental demands.
According to a Friday media report, Gotabaya Rajapaksa is staying at a hotel in the centre of Thailand's capital where authorities have recommended him to stay indoors for security reasons.
Several state-owned Chinese businesses, notably Sinopec (600028.SS) and China Life Insurance (601628.SS), made plans to withdraw from the American stock market on Friday.
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India made its first significant statements on the subject since China began conducting military exercises around the island it claims as its own on Friday, stating that it opposes any unilateral alteration to the status quo with Taiwan.
After being unable to purchase dollars or euros owing to sanctions, Russia is considering purchasing the currencies of "friendly" nations like China, India, and Turkey to hold in its National Wealth Fund (NWF).
Only a third of the required $48.7 billion has been obtained for U.N. humanitarian programmes this year as global needs exceed commitments, according to a spokesman for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on Friday.
Following a "ecological catastrophe," as one official put it, in which 10 tonnes of dead fish surfaced from the river, Poland has sent soldiers to help clean up the Oder River, which runs along the border with Germany.
According to China's top internet watchdog, digital behemoths like Tencent Holdings and Alibaba Group have provided information about the algorithms used in some of their products, complying with efforts by the government to strengthen oversight of platform algorithms.
After the Ukraine conflict prevented Western access to Russian Soyuz rockets, the European Space Agency (ESA) has started preliminary technical conversations with Elon Musk's SpaceX that could result in the temporary use of its launchers.
External affairs minister S Jaishankar makes no bones about admitting that his only consideration in making decisions is whether they will benefit India. This was never so definitive and fundamental before, not even during Rao’s reform phase
A historic drought in Somalia has now displaced one million people and left the country in the shadow of famine, the United Nations said on August 11.
A strategy document released this week by the US warned of the growing influence of China and Russia in the continent and promised to advance food security and infrastructure development in Sub-Saharan Africa
The Chinese crypto-mogul has held discussions with a raft of financiers, seeking to sell a roughly 60% slice of the company he founded almost a decade ago, according to people familiar with the matter.
Russia and Ukraine both accused the other of shelling Europe's largest nuclear power plant, heightening disaster worries as Ukraine requested that Russian forces leave the area and the U.N. head called for its designation as a demilitarised zone.
The court found Google misled some customers about personal location data collected through their Android mobile devices between January 2017 and December 2018.
A total 14 ships have now departed from Ukraine during past two weeks, following the deal with Russia to allow a resumption of grain exports from Ukraine's Black Sea ports, after they were stalled for five months due to the war.
UK gross domestic product dropped 0.1 percent in the April-June period after a rise of 0.8 percent in the first quarter, the Office for National Statistics said in a statement.