Britain said Iran seized two oil tankers in the Gulf and told Tehran to return the vessels or face consequences in the latest confrontation to ratchet up tension along a vital international oil shipping route. Iran said the second vessel had not been seized.
Many victims of an arson attack on an animation studio in the western Japanese city of Kyoto were young with bright futures, some joining only in April, the company president said on Saturday, as the death told climbed to 34.
Joaquin Guzman, the Mexican drug lord known as "El Chapo," entered a Colorado prison known as "the Alcatraz of the Rockies" on Friday to begin a life sentence after being found guilty of a raft of crimes including conspiracy to commit murder.
Swedish prosecutors on Friday extended American rapper A$AP Rocky's detention by six days amid their ongoing investigation into a street fight in Stockholm as U.S. President Donald Trump said he planned to call Sweden's prime minister about the case.
White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow will host a meeting with semiconductor and software executives on Monday to discuss the U.S. ban on sales to China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, two sources briefed on the meeting said on Friday.
Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said on Friday that Mexico has followed through on its commitment to the United States to reduce migration from Central America, as a deadline in a bilateral pact approaches.
An expected interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve later this month is pushing yield-oriented U.S. fund managers further afield in search of income at attractive prices.
| STOCKS | BONDS | CURRENCIES | COMMODITIES |
|---|
|
| Name | Yield | Change |
|---|---|---|
| US 10YR |
+2.057
|
+0.000 |
| DE 10YR |
-0.327
|
-0.005 |
| JP 10YR |
-0.125
|
+0.009 |
| Name | USD | EUR | JPY |
|---|---|---|---|
| USD | 1 | 1.1220 | 0.0093 |
| EUR | 0.8909 | 1 | 0.0083 |
| JPY | 107.7000 | 120.8400 | 1 |
| Index | Last | Chg |
|---|---|---|
| Gold |
1,436.20
USD
|
+10.10
Exp: Jul 19
|
| Copper |
2.74
USD
|
+0.04
Exp: Jul 19
|
| Crude Oil |
55.74
USD
|
+0.44
Exp: Jul 19
|
The United States should reject "prejudice" and respect facts instead of vilifying China's record on religious rights, the Communist Party newspaper People's Daily said on Saturday after fresh criticism of China's treatment of ethnic Muslims.
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