World economy
Turkey holds thousands in relentless post-coup crackdown
19 Jul 2016
Turkish security forces launched fresh raids on Monday in a relentless crackdown against the suspected plotters of a coup that left over 290 dead, as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan mooted reintroducing the death penalty to punish them
Clinton leads Trump by 5 points in latest poll
18 Jul 2016
With both the Republican and Democratic party conventions due this week, Hillary Clinton maintains her lead over Republican Donald Trump, though the email controversy has made a dent in her popularity
Over 100 plotters among 200 killed as Turkey coup fails
16 Jul 2016
Observers said common people pouring out in numbers played a major role in defeating a well-orchestrated coup attempt by a major section of the military against President Erdogan
Major coup bid in Turkey fails, leaves at least 104 dead
16 Jul 2016
Observers said it was a well-orchestrated coup attempt by a major section of the military, which managed to seize several strategic points in Istanbul before being driven out by forces loyal to President Erdogan
China says won’t cede ‘one centimetre’ of territorial claims
16 Jul 2016
China is currently mustering all its resources to counter the South China Sea judgement by a five-member global tribunal, which has struck down its 'nine-dash line' claim on almost all of the South China Sea
No Indians among Nice victims; Modi ‘appalled’
15 Jul 2016
Truck of terror mows down at least 80 in Nice
15 Jul 2016
At least 80 people were killed when a truck loaded with weapons and hand grenades drove along a sidewalk in the French resort city of Nice for more than a mile, ploughing through Bastille Day revellers
UK surprise: PM May makes Boris Johnson foreign minister
14 Jul 2016
Britain’s new Prime Minister Theresa May surprised everyone by naming key Brexiteer Boris Johnson as foreign secretary, while also unceremoniously sacking Chancellor George Osborne and replacing him with Philip Hammond
Bernie Sanders finally comes out in support of Clinton
13 Jul 2016
Bernie Sanders' endorsement, five weeks after Hillary Clinton became the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, brought the most prominent holdout in the party's liberal wing into her camp
Last woman standing: Theresa May to be UK’s next PM
12 Jul 2016
Theresa May is set to take over from David Cameron as prime minister after her only rival Adrea Leadsom pulled out, which means that all the key Brexit campaigners are now out of frontline politics
Abe, allies win thumping majority in Japan upper house
11 Jul 2016
Abe’s coalition won a two-thirds ‘super majority’ in Japan’s upper house, which is seen as an endorsement of his economic policies or ‘Abenomics’ and to a lesser extent of his plans to revise the constitution