Following a deadly hostage standoff at a supermarket, a gunman in southern France was killed by security forces, Interior Minister Gerard Collomb said on Friday. "The hostage-taker was shot," Collomb told a press conference in the town of Trebes, in the Aude department, at the scene of...

The U.S. plan to impose tariffs on Chinese imports and China's planned reciprocal tariffs would have a limited effect on Moody's rated Chinese companies, said the ratings agency on Friday. The impact on Moody's rated Chinese firms would be manageable, as most of them rely heavily on...

In the Egyptian village of Abu Shosha, far south of Cairo, residents hit hard by economic hardships are planning to vote for President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi in elections starting Monday. "We only began to feel safe after Sisi" became president and boosted security, Tarek Mohamed Hafez, a...

A combative Donald Trump threatened Friday to veto a spending deal clinched in a dead-of-night compromise in Congress, in a dramatic U-turn by the president that raises the fresh specter of a government shutdown. The president brandished the threat in a tweet after the Senate passed the...