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Japan has told the United States that Tokyo will not, at the moment, join Washington's plan to exclude Chinese firms from telecommunications networks, the Yomiuri newspaper said on Friday, citing several sources.

A former fundraiser for U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to plead guilty next week to charges of illegally lobbying Trump to drop an investigation into a massive Malaysian embezzlement scandal, according to court documents filed Thursday.

Speaking at an event organised by Bloomberg, Kotak said, "We need to increase our spends (in healthcare) from 1.3 per cent to at least more than double, because we are very under-invested in healthcare" and also increase the efforts on education.

Trading will not be conducted on Friday as well because it is 'Amavasya' or no moon day, which is considered inauspicious.

Sitharaman mentioned that recovery and rehabilitation efforts in these countries must not be allowed to be undermined in any manner, a Finance Ministry statement said.

India can now export tomato, onion and okra to Bhutan, which in turn will get the market access for its apple, potato, mandarin, ginger and arecanut here, it said.

A group of 25 state attorneys general oppose a settlement of U.S. opioid probes being negotiated with Purdue Pharma LP and members of the wealthy Sackler family who own it, arguing the deal would improperly entangle state and local officials with future s...

The world's major economies are considering a proposal to extend for six months a moratorium on debt payments by poor nations as a way to provide support during the worst global recession since the 1930s.

Major global markets were mostly higher on Wednesday after worries over the pandemic snapped a four-day winning streak on Wall Street.

Gold firmed on Wednesday as uncertainties over a global economic recovery and the U.S. presidential election prompted investors to exploit the previous session's sharp pullback to buy bullion.

Dutch mapping and navigation company TomTom reported on Wednesday thirdquarter core earnings above analysts’ expectations, helped by growth in its automotive business.

Federal labor prosecutors in Brazil have filed a civil suit against food processor Seara Alimentos, a division of meatpacking giant JBS SA, accusing it of failing to protect workers from the coronavirus at two plants in the southern state of Santa Catarin...

Washington, Oct 13 (AP) Billionaire former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg is donating $500,000 to juice Democratic turnout in Miami-Dade County, a place where the party must bank a massive number of votes if it hopes to win the pivotal swing state of Flori...

Johnson & Johnson boosted revenue slightly and doubled its third-quarter profit, mainly due to a $4 billion charge for litigation costs in the year-ago quarter. The health care giant handily beat Wall Street expectations and raised its financial forecast...

Investors managing around $20 trillion in assets on Tuesday called on the heaviest corporate emitters of greenhouse gases to set sciencebased targets on the way to net zero carbon emissions by midcentury.

Facebook is banning posts that deny or distort the Holocaust and will start directing people to authoritative sources if they search for information about the Nazi genocide.