BEIJING - The United States said it was directly communicating with North Korea, seeking to start a dialogue with Pyongyang as its advancing nuclear and missile programs stoke fears of an armed confrontation.
Britain's ambassador to Myanmar was forced to interrupt Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson earlier this year as he tried to recite a nostalgic colonial poem by Rudyard Kipling in public during a visit to the country's most famous Buddhist site.
The powerful Lebanese group Hezbollah said on Saturday that an Iraqi Kurdish independence vote marked a first step toward the partition of the Middle East, warning that this would lead to "internal wars" and must be opposed.
Tens of thousands of people marched in Dublin on Saturday to demand the loosening of some of the strictest abortion laws in the world ahead of a 2018 referendum on the issue.
U.S. President Donald Trump is ramping up his search for a new chief for the U.S. central bank, meeting with former Federal Reserve Governor Kevin Warsh and three others and promising a decision next month.
Dozens of people were arrested on Saturday as neo-Nazis and anti-fascists clashed with police during a march by the extreme right-wing Nordic Resistance Movement (NMR) in Gothenburg, Sweden on Saturday, police said.
The premiers of two regions where the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party made big gains in Sunday's national election warned that Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives must change course to stop the former East Germany's rightward drift.
| STOCKS | BONDS | CURRENCIES | COMMODITIES |
|---|
|
| Name | Yield | Change |
|---|---|---|
| US 10YR |
+2.339
|
+0.000 |
| DE 10YR |
+0.468
|
+0.007 |
| JP 10YR |
+0.063
|
-0.001 |
| Name | USD | EUR | JPY |
|---|---|---|---|
| USD | 1 | 1.1812 | 0.0089 |
| EUR | 0.8463 | 1 | 0.0075 |
| JPY | 112.4500 | 132.8500 | 1 |
| Index | Last | Chg |
|---|---|---|
| Gold |
1,282.80
USD
|
-2.70
Exp: Oct 17
|
| Copper |
2.94
USD
|
-0.03
Exp: Oct 17
|
| Crude Oil |
51.64
USD
|
+0.08
Exp: Oct 17
|
