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US futures slip and world shares are mixed as Japan keeps its key interest rate unchanged
European shares were mixed after Asian markets advanced Friday as calm was restored after a tumultuous week.U.S. futures turned lower, with the contracts for the S&P 500 and the Dow industrials down 0.1%.
Germany's DAX was little changed at 24,852.07, while the CAC 40 in Paris lost 0.2% to 8,129.68. Britain's FTSE 100 edged 0.1% higher.
In Asian trading, Tokyo's Nikkei 225 picked up 0.3% to 53,846.87 after the Bank of Japan kept its key interest rate unchanged, as expected. The central bank just raised the policy rate to 0.75% in December. Wrapping up its... Read More
Turkey celebrates as Syrian government makes gains against Kurdish-led force
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey is celebrating the latest developments in Syria, where the new government has effectively defeated a major Kurdish-led force with an abrupt offensive.Ankara has long viewed armed groups led by Kurds — an ethnic minority with large populations in eastern Turkey, Iraq and northern Syria — as a threat as Turkey as fought to quell the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, whose decades‑long insurgency cost tens of thousands of lives.
Coming just a few months after a Kurdish militant group in Turkey agreed to lay down its arms, the... Read More
Toll in Iran's protest crackdown reaches at least 5,002 dead as Trump says US 'armada' approaching
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The toll in Iran's bloody crackdown on nationwide protests has reached at least 5,002 people killed, activists said Friday, warning many more were feared dead as the most comprehensive internet blackout in the country's history crossed the two-week mark.The challenge in getting information out of Iran persists because of authorities cutting off access to the internet on Jan. 8, even as tensions rise between the United States and Iran as an American aircraft carrier group moves closer to the Middle East — a force U.S. President Donald Trump... Read More
Vietnam's ruling Communist Party re-elects To Lam as general secretary
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam’s leader To Lam was re-elected Friday as the general secretary of its ruling Communist Party.The decision came at the conclusion of the National Party Congress, the country’s most important political conclave.
No announcement was made about whether he will also become president. If To Lam were to get both positions, he would be the country’s most powerful leader in decades, in a manner similar to that of Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
The Congress was framed by Vietnam’s defining national question: whether the country can... Read More
Carlos Alcaraz wins third-round match but loses 'drop-shot battle' at Australian Open
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Carlos Alcaraz had to acknowledge that while he won the third-round match, he lost the battle of the drop shots against Corentin Moutet.That could be a first for the 22-year-old Spaniard, who grew up relentlessly practicing his drop shots and is now at the Australian Open chasing a career Grand Slam.
The left-handed Moutet mixed things up for Alcaraz in an almost festival Friday vibe on Rod Laver Arena, his blend of drop shots, slice, lobs, tweeners, volleys and even an underarm serve keeping the world's No. 1-ranked player on his toes.
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