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State Bank of India Chairman upbeat about the future

Jason Alden | Bloomberg | Getty Images Rajnish Kumar, chairman, State Bank of India. India’s largest lender posted its first quarterly loss in 17 years for the three months ended in December, but its chairman told CNBC that the rest of the year looks much better. The State Bank of …

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Giuliani explains why he revealed US president paid back Cohen

Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty Images Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani speaks at a rally for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump at Ambridge Area Senior High School on October 10, 2016 in Ambridge, Pennsylvania. Donald Trump’s newest legal aide told NBC News that he made the explosive …

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Trump asks Pentagon to consider US troop reduction in South Korea: report

Mark Wilson | Getty Images U.S. President Donald Trump waves as he departs from the White House on July 12, 2017 in Washington, DC. President Donald Trump has asked the Pentagon to look into reducing the presence of American troops in South Korea, The New York Times reported on Thursday, …

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Pence postponing trip to Brazil ahead of North Korea meeting

Jung Yeon-Je | AFP | Getty Images A television news report showing pictures of President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at a railway station in Seoul on March 9, 2018. Vice President Mike Pence is postponing a planned trip to Brazil this month as President Donald …

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EU warns it could withdraw funds from countries that fail to uphold democracy

Getty Images European Union flags hang outside the European Commission Headquarters on March 10, 2017 in Brussels, Belgium. The European Union (EU) could slash funding for governments that fail to uphold democracy after it announced plans Wednesday to link its budget with the political health of member states. The EU …

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Zimbabwe opposition leader wants to give China investors the boot

Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa (L) shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, on April 3, 2018. “Chamisa’s comments will play well with the MDC’s political base, who see Chinese loans as being fundamental for helping keep the former Mugabe regime …

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Aerospace CEO sees growing global role for the UAE in manufacturing

Karim Sahib | AFP | Getty Images United Arab Emirates’ Air Force Aerobatic Team performs with an Emirates Airline Airbus A380 at the Dubai Airshow on November 18, 2013, in Dubai. “Females represent 48 percent of our total workforces, out of which 96 percent are UAE nationals,” Abdulla said. “Early …

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Korean janitor could keep seven gold bars he found in the trash

Yoshikazu Tsuno | AFP | Getty Images Gold bars on display in Tokyo on September 27, 2010. A janitor in South Korea who discovered seven gold bars in a garbage bin could keep them if no-one else claims ownership. The unidentified male cleaner found the discarded gold bars, that each …

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Gold demand posts weakest first quarter since 2008 financial crisis

Leonhard Foeger | Reuters A worker places gold jewelery into a melting furnace at the Austrian Gold and Silver Separating Plant in Vienna, Austria. Gold demand slumped to its weakest first quarter since the global financial crisis, the World Gold Council said Thursday, as the prospect of rising interest rates …

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk continues to say he has no plans to raise capital

Daniel Acker | Getty Images Elon Musk, chairman and chief executive officer of Tesla Motors, center, participates in the opening bell ceremony at the Nasdaq Marketsite with his twin boys Griffin, green shirt at center, and Xavier, right in blue shirt, and his fiancee (at the time) Talulah Riley, second …

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