Goldman Sachs (GS.N) is cutting almost 30 percent of its 300 investment banking jobs in Asia outside Japan in response to a slowdown in activity in the region, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. The Wall Street bank is reducing the number of bankers working on mergers and...

The National Alliance for Reform, which includes candidates from Jordan’s Muslim Brotherhood group, won 15 parliamentary seats in Tuesday polls, according to semi-final results announced late Thursday by Jordan’s official electoral commission. Another three seats, meanwhile, were won by...

The Swedish government is eyeing new ways to speed up deportations of failed asylum-seekers. Interior Minister Anders Ygeman and Justice and Migration Minister Morgan Johansson told reporters Thursday that police should be allowed to raid workplaces in their search for asylum-seekers whose...

Three Thai policemen were killed and two wounded on Friday in a bomb and gun attack in the southern province of Yala where Muslim separatists have been waging a simmering insurgency against the state. The attack came just over a month after a series of bombs in three of Thailand's main...