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18 August 2016 • 11:06 AMT
Oil surges above $50 for first time since July

The North Sea benchmark Brent was hovering around $50 per barrel, while US West Texas Intermediate was trading above $47.

18 August 2016 • 10:33 AMT
Catherine Zeta-Jones to star in Ryan Murphy’s FX drama “Feud”

Zeta-Jones joins Jessica Lange and Susan Sarandon in the anthology series, which centers on a different famous feud every season.

18 August 2016 • 10:30 AMT
South Korea holds largest-ever artillery drills near N. Korea border

S. Korea’s front-line army units regularly conduct live-fire drills, but the number of artillery mobilized in the drills was the biggest ever.

18 August 2016 • 10:28 AMT
Billy Crudup to join Naomi Watts in Netflix drama “Gypsy”

The project follows the journey of a therapist who begins to develop dangerous relationships with the people in her patients’ lives.

18 August 2016 • 10:08 AMT
Azerbaijan must be the 1st to offer compromise on Karabakh: Armenia

“As long as Azerbaijan’s position gets increasingly coarser, the Armenian side’s talking about concessions makes no sense,” an official said.

18 August 2016 • 10:05 AMT
Amy Schumer canceling “Inside Amy Schumer” hit show?

The comedian took to Twitter to criticize Kurt Metzger, who has worked as one of writers on “Inside Amy Schumer”.

18 August 2016 • 09:18 AMT
No “Pro” model for upcoming “iPhone 7” – report

Repeated reports point to the absence of the legacy analog headphone jack that Apple has been supporting for three decades.

18 August 2016 • 08:59 AMT
Pinterest introduces Promoted Video ads for brands

“This is a focused effort from the company to make a much bigger bet on video,” said Jon Kaplan, head of global sales at Pinterest.

18 August 2016 • 08:36 AMT
U.S. places import restrictions on Syrian artifacts

They apply to any cultural property “unlawfully removed” from Syria from March 15, 2011, when the conflict began.

18 August 2016 • 08:28 AMT
Moldova opposes Russia’s drills in separatist Trans-Dniester

Diplomats were called to the ministry after Moldovan separatists and Russian troops staged joint military exercises in Trans-Dniester.

18 August 2016 • 08:17 AMT
Japan PM planning to pay first-ever visit to Cuba: media

The trip, if confirmed, will coincide with Abe’s planned attendance at the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York

18 August 2016 • 08:04 AMT
U.S. slams crackdown, arrests of activists in Azerbaijan

The U.S. urged the Azerbaijani government to submit the constitutional amendments for a joint Venice Commission and ODIHR Opinion.

18 August 2016 • 07:56 AMT
Merkel rejects connection between Islamist terrorism and refugee influx

“The phenomenon of Islamist terror, or of ISIS, isn’t one that arrived with the refugees,” Merkel said in the town of Neustrelitz.

18 August 2016 • 07:39 AMT
Second terror blast in 24 hours hits Turkey, kills three

Footage showed a plume of smoke rising from the area in the aftermath of the blast and extensive damage to the facade of the police station.

18 August 2016 • 07:30 AMT
Armenia, U.S. discuss peacekeeping operations, trainings

At the meeting, the parties discussed Armenia’s participation in UN peacekeeping operations, organizations of relevant trainings.

18 August 2016 • 07:25 AMT
Media Asia acquires Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman”

The film, to star Robert de Niro and Al Pacino, will shoot from next year and get a U.S. release through Paramount Pictures in 2018.

18 August 2016 • 07:16 AMT
Strand Releasing nabs Paco Leon’s comedy “Kiki, Love to Love”

“Kiki” is a Spanish-language adaptation of Josh Lawson’s critically-acclaimed Australian comedy “Little Death.”

18 August 2016 • 07:07 AMT
Marvel’s “Runaways” gets pilot order at Hulu

From “Gossip Girl” creators Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, the show is adapted from Marvel’s comic book series of the same name.

18 August 2016 • 06:58 AMT
South Sudan rebel leader flees country, spokesman says

Former First Vice President Riek Machar has gone to a safe country in the neighboring East
African region, Mabior Garang said.

18 August 2016 • 06:53 AMT
NASA’s asteroid-bound spacecraft to launch in September

The spacecraft will launch from Cape Canaveral and travel for two years before it reaches its destination.

18 August 2016 • 06:46 AMT
240 shots fired by Azeri troops towards Karabakh positions

Azerbaijani troops, in particular, used various caliber firearms to fire over 230 shots towards the Armenian positions.

18 August 2016 • 06:41 AMT
Your next smartphone could last six days on a single charge

A team at the HZB Institute for Soft Matter and Functional Materials have come up with a way to keep things chugging a whole lot longer.

18 August 2016 • 06:38 AMT
Three killed, 40 wounded in PKK car bomb near Turkish police station

Police were sent to the scene, identifying a militant named M.O. suspected of bringing the car bomb in front of the police station.

18 August 2016 • 06:32 AMT
Amnesty: Torture, diseases kill over 17,000 in Syrian state jails

“With tens of thousands of people forcibly disappeared in detention facilities across Syria, the real figure is likely to be even higher,” Amnesty said.

18 August 2016 • 06:24 AMT
Turkey begins freeing 38,000 inmates to make space for coup purge

Western allies worry President Erdogan is using the crackdown to target dissent, testing relations with a key NATO partner.

18 August 2016 • 06:05 AMT
U.S. looking at whether Russian use of Iran base violates UN resolution

Mark Toner said the United States was still open to coordinating with Russia in the fight against Islamic State.

17 August 2016 • 14:19 AMT
India ready for Pakistan talks over Kashmir tension

At least 64 people have died and thousands been injured in clashes with security forces that have been denounced by Pakistan.

17 August 2016 • 14:06 AMT
Nigeria relaunches controversial “war on indiscipline” task force

The minister of information has also said that the brigade will help to address the “lack of ethics and values” in Nigerian society.

17 August 2016 • 13:53 AMT
London Film Festival to feature Nicole Kidman’s “Lion”

“Lion” tells the true story of how a wrong train takes a five-year-old Indian boy hundreds of miles from home.

17 August 2016 • 13:42 AMT
Chief of European IOC arrested in Rio over ticket scandal

As head of European IOC he has been instrumental in setting up the European Games which was first held in Baku last year.