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Kenya's gross domestic product grew by 6 percent in the third quarter of 2018, compared with 4.7 percent in the same period last year, Kenya National Bureau of Statistics said on Monday.

Asian stock markets ended 2018 with negative returns in dollar terms, weighed down by trade tensions and slowing profit growth.

Russia's domestic security service (FSB) said on Monday it had detained an American citizen suspected of spying in Moscow.

UK shares edged higher on Monday after comments by U.S. President Donald Trump helped alleviate some fears among investors about the U.S.-China trade dispute as a year plagued by worries about trade and slowing growth drew to a close.

European shares were slightly higher in early deals on Monday as soothing comments from Washington and Beijing about trade frictions between the world's top two economies provided some salve for investors after a bruising year in equity markets.

Fearing his country's pay-as-you-go pension scheme is unsustainable, a 40-year old French engineer - let's call him Jean Dupont - makes a New Year resolution.

Martin Sorrell's new era advertising firm S4 Capital said on Monday it had secured two major new clients in the run up to Christmas as it reported like-for-like revenue had jumped by half year-to-date to the end of November.

* Aussie benchmark closes flat on last trading session of 2018

Hong Kong shares climbed over 1 percent on Monday, closing an otherwise bearish 2018 on a firm note, on the back of optimism about Sino-U.S. trade relations, and gains in technology stocks. ** The Hang Seng index rose 1.3 percent to 25,845.70, while the Hang Seng China Enterprises index gained...

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