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Stock markets in Asia, Europe and the US have fallen sharply amid continuing fears over China's economic stability...

The FTSE100 index in London was down more than 5 per cent in afternoon trading, with the DAX and CAC40 falling between 5 and 6 per cent.

Wall Street has opened lower, as China's 'black Monday' spreads around the global markets.

Investors are desperate for a sign of reassurance from officials in China as to how they will shore up its economy.

Jamil Anderlini is from the Financial Times...

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Wang Tao is the Chief China Economist of UBS and told the Financial Times a mixture of the Federal Reserves decision on interest rates and emerging markets expending their credit along with China's slowdown is creating this sell-off...

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Australian sharemarket tumbles 4 percent in wild Monday trade.

Australia's treasurer Joe Hockey has warned that confidence will be the first casualty of the latest slump in shares prices after around 60 billion australian dollars (43.5 billion US dollars, 27.5 billion Pounds) was wiped off the market in Monday's trade.
Arthur Stevens has more.

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UK air show deaths could rise to 20

Filmmakers are urging Russia to release Oleg Sentsov

Train heroes to receive top honours in Paris

France is granting top honours to train passengers who foiled an attack by a gunman on a high speed service to Amsterdam this weekend.

The passengers, three Americans and a Briton have been labeled heroes, and are meeting the French President at the Elysee [PRON: "El-ee-say"] Palace in Paris.

Our Europe correspondent Sandra Gathmann reports.

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Euro markets plunge amid panic over China's growth slow-down

Stock markets across Europe have plunged into the red at the start of the trading week, amid panic over the continuing slow down in China's economic growth...

The UK's FTSE 100 opened nearly 3 per cent down, with France's CAC40 and the DAX in Germany also down.

Overnight shares in Asia took huge losses, with the Shanghai Composite in China closing down 8.5%, its worst close since 2007.

Laith Khalaf is from investors Hargreaves Lansdown...

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Sunday, August 23, 2015

Americans hailed as heroes for preventing train shooting

The three American men who are being hailed as heroes for stopping a
potential mass-shooting on a European train have spoken about the
experience.

The men were on holiday and on board the high-speed Amsterdam to Paris
train when they tackled the alleged gunman in Friday's incident.

Police are continuing to question Moroccan national Ayoub El-Kahzzani
for his alleged links to a radical Islamic movement.

Spencer Stone says he acted quickly and instinctively.

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Anthony Sadler said he hopes people would react similarly in the future.

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U.S. Ambassador to France Jane Hartley spoke warmly of the 3 men.

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Weekend conversations fuel speculation about Biden Presidential run

Speculation that US Vice President Joe Biden might challenge Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Party’s Presidential nomination has been stoked after conversations and meetings he held over the weekend.

The Vice President closeted himself with Senator Elizabeth Warren, a populist left-winger from Massachusetts.

He’s also been reaching out to potential financial backers, as our Washington Correspondent Simon Marks reports.

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Nervous Monday ahead for Wall Street

Wall Street traders have had a nervous weekend following Friday’s dramatic slide in the value of stocks.

They’ll be looking to see whether the trend continues when markets re-open on Monday.

The Dow Jones Industrial Exchange shed 530 points on Friday, as Chinese stocks crashed again and oil was trading below $40 a barrel.

But Liz Ann Sonders, chief investment strategist at the brokerage house Charles Schwab, says traders would be wise not to panic.

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Liz Ann Sonders, chief investment strategist at the brokerage house Charles Schwab, says it’s much too soon to talk of a possible US recession.

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Front-runner in UK Labour Party leadership race under fire over Iraq "apology"

The front-runner in the race to be the next leader of Britain’s opposition Labour Party is under fire for pledging to apologize for the country’s role in the war against Iraq.

Jeremy Corbyn says if he’s elected next month he will issue a formal apology on behalf of his party for the 2003 invasion of Iraq ordered by former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair.

But former British Army Colonel Richard Kemp says Mr. Corbyn is insulting the country’s armed forces.

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But former British Army Colonel Richard Kemp says the move would only serve to infuriate members of Britain’s forces and their families.

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US zoo welcomes twin pandas

The National Zoo in Washington DC is welcoming the birth of twin pandas.

The baby pandas arrived just hours before their big sister BaoBao turned two.

Pandas have been central to US-China relations for decades.

Our US correspondent Priscilla Huff reports:

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Merkel, Hollande host Ukraine talks in Berlin Monday

Talks aimed at resolving the crisis in Ukraine are due to get underway in Berlin on Monday.

They’re being convened jointly by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande, in a fresh bid to bring peace to the country following a pro-Russian uprising in the East a year and a half ago.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has not been invited to Monday’s meeting, after Ukrainian President Petro Poroschenko urged European leaders to isolate him.

Neil Buckley, Eastern Europe editor of the Financial Times, says a recent upswing in violence threatens to derail the so-called Minsk II accord struck earlier this year.

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Neil Buckley, Eastern Europe editor of the Financial Times, says fresh violence over the last week is raising further questions about the implementation of a security agreement struck in Minsk earlier this year.

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Also on the agenda, discussions about a proposed refinancing of Ukraine’s debt.

Talks are ongoing between the Ukrainian government and some of its largest private creators.

Elaine Moore is the Capital Markets correspondent for the Financial Times.

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UK-Iran embassies re-open

The UK has re-opened its embassy in Iran nearly four years after it closed...

Iran has also re-opened it's embassy in London, in a mark of thawing relations between the two countries.

Our UK correspondent Dan Whitehead...

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First-ever U.N. Security Council meeting on LGBT rights

The first ever United Nations meeting on LGBT rights will be held on Monday by the Security Council.

It's a historic meeting hosted by US Ambassador Samantha Powers and Chile’s U.N. Ambassador Cristian Barros Melet.

Mimi Chiahemen reports from the UN headquarters in New York

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Wall St looks to GDP data for improved week

Following the worst trading on Wall Street since the financial crisis of 2008, US markets are hoping for a better week ahead.

But a lot of that will depend on how good the latest GDP reading is.

Patrice Howard reports from New York.

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Belgium opens terror probe against train gunman

Police in France have begun questioning the gunman who attempted a mass shooting aboard a high speed train but was restrained by passengers.

25 year-old Ayoub El Kahzza from Morrocco is believed to have boarded the train in Brussels and Belgian authorities have opened a terror probe.

Our Europe correspondent Sandra Gathmann reports.

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Saturday, August 22, 2015

DPRK UN ambassador: Pyongyang's threat to strike South Korea not "empty talk"

North Korea's UN ambassador on Friday warned that Pyongyang's threat to strike South Korea is not an idle one.

Pyongyang has given Seoul up till Saturday 5 pm local time to stop anti-North propaganda broadcasts that it describes as "psychology warfare," or it will go to war.

Our correspondent Liling Tan reports from UN headquarters in New York.

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