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Australia, China and Malaysia pledged on Monday not to give up searching for a Malaysia Airlines jetliner that disappeared almost two months ago, despite lingering questions about how to proceed and who will pay. No trace of Flight MH370 has...

South Sudan's army battled rebels in and around the northern oil town of Bentiu on Monday, hitting hopes for renewed peace efforts days after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry visited to try and revive faltering negotiations. It was not...

South Africa's Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) said on Monday its striking members had rejected the latest wage offer by the world's three biggest platinum mining companies. The strike has been running for nearly four months at Anglo...

China has temporarily banned imports of British cheese after the country's food inspectors complained about hygiene standards at an unnamed UK dairy. The Chinese officials were reportedly dissatisfied with its maintenance and storage, raw milk transport temperatures and air sanitisation. However,...

South Sudan troops trying to recapture the oil hub of Bentiu from rebels have been forced back amid heavy gunfire, a BBC correspondent says. Government troops advanced towards the town centre over the weekend with an armoured column. But the BBC's...

European stocks slipped in thin trade on Monday after soft Chinese manufacturing data, while simmering tensions in Ukraine underpinned safe-haven government bonds and gold. Portuguese bond yields edged to eight-year lows after Lisbon said on Sunday the country would make...

Norway picked Citigroup (C.N) over rival U.S. bank JPMorgan Chase & Co Inc (JPM.N) as custodian of its sovereign oil wealth fund, the world's biggest at $865 billion, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. Officials at the banks were not...

Ukraine's largest bank has temporarily closed branches in separatist-held Donetsk and Luhansk, saying it could no longer carry out cash transactions in regions riddled with crime that could "threaten the lives" of its workers. Pro-Russian separatists have targeted Privatbank, after...

No public commentator has as yet delivered as robust an analysis of the forthcoming 2015 presidential election as a regular columnist in the Vanguard, the intrepid Femi Aribisala. In a recent article, titled: ‘The 2015 presidential election will not...

Air transport reforms needed to unlock full potential Until recently, it was not uncommon for passengers flying between two African cities to transit through Europe. It was cheaper and faster, for instance, for passengers travelling to Ethiopia from Cote d’Ivoire...