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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African artist Blessing Ngobeni first picked up a paintbrush during a nine-year stint in prison, drawing fellow inmates and birthday cards to "kill time". This month, th...

PRETORIA (Reuters) - South Africa's gross domestic product (GDP) contracted 0.7% in the second quarter in quarter-on-quarter, seasonally adjusted and non-annualised terms, data from the statistics age...

By Ron Bousso LONDON (Reuters) - Shell and Exxon Mobil have put up for sale one of Europe's largest and oldest natural gas production ventures, betting on soaring energy prices amid tensions with Russ...

(Corrects typographical error in paragraph 8) BEIJING (Reuters) -Top tier Chinese banks preparing to respond to Beijing's call to boost lending to the real economy and debt-laden property sector are s...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -New car sales in Russia in August fell 62.4% from a year earlier, after a drop of 74.9% in July, the Association of European Businesses (AEB) said on Tuesday. A total of 41,698 new c...

By Alexander Marrow VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (Reuters) - Russia's VTB Bank is interested in an asset swap with Russian subsidiaries of European lenders as it seeks to recover some 600 billion roubles ($9.8...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India will start talks on a comprehensive economic partnership agreement (CEPA) with Bangladesh, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday. "We also decided to increase...

SEOUL (Reuters) -A fire broke out at South Korean steelmaker POSCO's plant in the southeastern city of Pohang on Tuesday, a POSCO spokesperson confirmed. "A fire broke out at our Pohang steel plant - ...

BEIJING (Reuters) -China has named Zhang Qingsong as deputy governor of the People's Bank of China (PBOC), the cabinet said on Tuesday, as part of a reshuffle of the bank's leadership ahead of an impo...

By M. Sriram MUMBAI (Reuters) - SoftBank Group is in talks to invest $35 million in Indian car service and repair firm GoMechanic, in what would be one of the Japanese investor's smallest bets in Indi...