As "Black Friday" kicks off the annual holiday shopping season, US retailers are hopeful in light of stock market records and job growth, but leery of cut-throat pricing from online competition. The annual shopping frenzy once again kicked off late Thursday after the Thanksgiving holiday...

(The Daily Star)- Spanish police have announced an international arrest warrant against a powerful Ukrainian oligarch, identified by media Friday as controversial gas magnate Dmytro Firtash. Judicial authorities in Barcelona ordered "three European arrest warrants issued against Ukrainian...

Iraqi forces on Thursday imposed a curfew in parts of eastern Mosul recently captured from the Daesh terrorist group, according to a military source. "On Thursday morning, the army imposed a curfew in the Kokjali area, one of the first neighborhoods in eastern Mosul to be retaken from...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday warned the European Union he would sign a law bringing back the death penalty if it was approved by parliament. "Democracy, it's respecting the people's will," Erdogan said in a speech in Istanbul. EU officials have repeatedly made clear that...