Analysts polled by AFP forecast the world’s number two economy to have grown 5.1 percent from January to March — down from 5.4 the previous quarter. Figures released Monday showed Beijing’s exports ...

Asian stocks were mixed Tuesday as some stability returned to markets after last week’s rollercoaster ride, with auto firms boosted by Donald Trump’s possible compromise over steep tariffs on the ...

Japan’s envoy for upcoming tariff talks will depart for Washington to meet senior US officials on Wednesday, the government confirmed. Japan has not escaped President Donald Trump’s trade blitz ...

South Korea announced plans to invest almost $5 billion extra in the country’s semiconductor industry on Tuesday, citing “growing uncertainty” over US tariffs. The country is a major exporter to the ...

In Nigeria — home to 30 percent of the world’s annual 600,000 malaria deaths — clinics that once served 300 people a day in the conflict-hit Borno state have abruptly shut down, Ibrahim and other laid ...

Newcastle manager Eddie Howe will miss the club's next two Premier League games after being diagnosed with pneumonia.

The ex-communication minister described Awolowo as “one of the most visionary leaders Nigeria has ever produced”.

At the resumed hearing, the claimant, Oyingi Imiete, informed the court that the matter was scheduled for hearing of a motion for interlocutory injunction.

Harvard president Alan Garber vowed in a letter to students and faculty to defy the government, insisting that the school would not "negotiate over its independence or its constitutional rights." ...

During the operation, the bodies of two victims, identified as natives of Kano State, were recovered from the rubble.

"We are on top of the situation and will go to any length to forestall a recurrence," the governor assured the people of the state.

Ann-Kio Briggs believes that, rather than restoring peace, the declaration of a state of emergency is escalating political tensions.