World economy
Russia, China sign 30-year gas deal
21 May 2014
EU charges 3 of world’s biggest banks with rate rigging
21 May 2014
US and European regulators have so far handed down some $6 billion in fines to 10 banks and brokerages for rigging the Libor and its euro cousin Euribor
Pakistan invites ‘hardliner’ Narendra Modi for visit
20 May 2014
India’s foreign ministry played down the invite, claiming that it was routinely extended and did not imply that Modi would be travelling to Pakistan.
Thailand’s army stages ‘half-coup’, declares martial law
20 May 2014
The army aims to maintain peace, order and public safety for all groups and all parties, a ticker running on the army's television channel said
Russia on verge of signing huge gas supply deal with China
20 May 2014
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev says Russia is close to signing a decades-long contract to supply natural gas to China at a price that would value the deal at about $400 billion
Swiss voters reject move to pay world’s highest minimum wage
19 May 2014
Switzerland’s voters have, in a referendum, overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to introduce what would have been the highest minimum wage in the world
US jobless claims down to seven-year low
16 May 2014
Euro-area recovery fails as economies shrink
16 May 2014
with the French economy stalling unexpectedly and economies from Italy to the Netherland shrinking the euro-area recovery failed to gather pace last quarter
Israel ex-PM Ehud Omert awarded six-year jail sentence in graft case
14 May 2014
Olmert is the first former prime minister of Israel to be convicted of bribery and to be sentenced to prison
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