The commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan said on Friday that the Kabul government's peace deal with warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar was an "encouraging" step that would bring a long-time belligerent into reconciliation with the government. Army General John Nicholson told reporters at the...

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...

(Marca)- It will always be a source of conjecture when a player of Lionel Messi's stature goes down with an injury, however the Argentine has suggested a few days rest is required to allow him to return even stronger. The sense of panic was palpable around the Camp Nou on Wednesday evening...

“We have no permission for go out. Now we are prison [sic],” a 17-year-old Pakistani migrant texted, along with a sad emoji face, locked inside a refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos. Just under a hundred minors aged 12 to 17 find shelter in the rooms reserved for them. “We have beds,...

President Vladimir Putin's United Russia party won Sunday's parliamentary elections, having garnered 54.2 percent of the votes, the Central Election Commission announced Friday. The Communist Party came second with 13.3 percent, while the Liberal Democratic Party was third at 13.1, followed...

Two soldiers and 15 Boko Haram fighters were killed Thursday as the Nigeria-led multinational troops repelled an attack by militants in Abadam town of the country's northeastern Borno state, an army spokesman said Friday. "During the fierce battle, the troops killed 15 of the insurgents,...

India signed a deal to buy 36 Rafale fighter jets from France on Friday for around $8.7 billion, the country's first major acquisition of combat planes in two decades and a boost for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's plan to rebuild an ageing fleet. The air force is down to 33 squadrons,...

U.S. authorities reopened a terminal at LaGuardia Airport in New York on Friday after an abandoned vehicle prompted its evacuation, media reported. Authorities evacuated Terminal B at about 11 p.m. local time after a car was left unattended with its doors open, several media outlets...

South Korea said cash withheld by Hanjin Shipping Co Ltd (117930.KS) and support from its parent group should roughly meet funding needed for unloading cargo from vessels operated by the troubled container line. In a statement prepared for a briefing on the collapse of the nation's biggest...

A metrobus in Istanbul left its dedicated traffic lane early Friday, crushing four cars and stopping only after it ran against a public double-decker bus, according to local media reports. An unconfirmed number of people were injured in the accident, which happened during the morning rush...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan accused the United States of supplying more weapons to Kurdish fighters in northern Syria this week, delivering two plane loads of arms to what Ankara says is a terrorist group. Erdogan's comments, in a speech in New York on Thursday, are likely to add to...

The U.S. and Russia on Thursday failed to revive a recently ended truce in Syria, according to the UN envoy to Syria. Staffan de Mistura told reporters that a meeting of the International Syria Support Group in New York on the margins of the UN General Assembly was "long, painful and...

Britain expects to start the divorce procedure to leave the European Union early next year and may not need two years to negotiate a deal, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said on Thursday. London is under pressure from fellow EU members to invoke Article 50 of the EU's Lisbon Treaty, which...

Turkey aims to open up a safe zone in northern Syria as part of an ongoing military operation there, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Thursday. "Here is our goal: We want to declare a safe zone that is 95 by 45 kilometers (60 by 30 miles), or 4,000-5,000 square kilometers (2,385-3,100...

The UN on Thursday warned that 40 trucks of food languishing at the Turkish-Syrian border, waiting for permission from the Syrian regime, will be expiring next Monday. “Forty trucks are sitting at the Turkish-Syrian border, the food will be expiring on Monday, and the drivers are sleeping at...

Libyan forces said they foiled three attempted car bombings in renewed heavy fighting against Islamic State holdouts in the group's former stronghold of Sirte on Thursday. Forces led by brigades from the western city of Misrata and supported since Aug. 1 by U.S. air strikes have surrounded...

Nine more bodies have been recovered from the Mediterranean a day after a boat carrying hundreds of migrants capsized off the coast of Egypt, officials said on Thursday, bringing the death toll to 52. Police arrested four members of the boat's crew. Security sources said it had been loaded...