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India among Asia’s least exposed to UK’s vote to exit

  Bloomberg India’s economy will be among the least impacted in Asia by the UK’s vote to exit the European Union given its relatively low exposure to trade, according to Morgan Stanley. “Increased uncertainty in the external environment due to UK’s vote should add to downward pressures on growth and inflation in the region,” Morgan Stanley economists including Chetan Ahya ...

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Suicide bombings kill 5 in Lebanon-Syria border village

  Al-Qaa / AFP A string of suicide bombings early on Monday killed at least five people in a Lebanese village near the volatile border with war-ravaged Syria. The attack came just hours after the IS group on Sunday claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb that killed seven soldiers on Jordan’s border with Syria. Monday’s deadly blasts struck Al-Qaa, a predominantly ...

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IS claims responsibility for Jordan border attack

  AMMAN / AP The extremist IS group claimed responsibility for last week’s deadly suicide attack on a Jordanian army post on the Syrian border, posting a video online on Monday it said shows the car bomb blast. The video, which was posted on the Facebook page of the IS news agency Amaq, shows a vehicle kicking up dust as it ...

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