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AFP, London :British drugs giant AstraZeneca on Monday rejected a final takeover bid from US rival Pfizer worth $117 billion (85 billion euros), saying it...

AFP, New York :US telecommunications giant AT&T clinched a deal Sunday to acquire broadcast satellite service provider DirecTV for nearly $50 billion, the latest in...

AFP, Bangkok :Thailand’s economy shrunk 0.6 percent year on year in January-March, data showed Monday, as the kingdom’s festering political crisis battered consumer confidence and...

AFP, Singapore :Oil prices edged higher in Asia Monday on escalating violence in crude producer Libya following a coup attempt by a rogue general that...

BBC Online :South Korea plans to break up its coastguard in the wake of the ferry disaster in which more than 300 people died, says...

BBC Online :Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has ordered troops near Ukraine’s border to withdraw, the Kremlin says.Units in the Rostov, Belgorod and Bryansk regions should...

BBC Online :The defence in the trial of former Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity has opened...

BBC Online :As the BJP’s Narendra Modi prepares to take oath as India’s new PM, most analysts appear united in their view that fixing the...

BBC Online :India’s Supreme Court has allowed the former editor of a news magazine who is charged with raping a female colleague to attend his...

Reuters, Bangkok :Thailand’s acting prime minister on Monday ruled out resigning as a way out of a protracted political crisis that is stunting economic growth,...