President Donald Trump warned Friday that he would snub Apple's requests for tariff exemptions on device components imported from China, as he put pressure on the tech company to shift production to the United States. "Apple will not be given Tariff wavers, or relief, for Mac Pro parts that...

Juventus drew 3-3 in a friendly with a K League all-star team on Friday but 60,000 spectators couldn't hide their upset after Cristiano Ronaldo failed to play. Ronaldo remained on the bench throughout the game ignoring appeals from the crowd to lace up his boots. It was understandable...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday kept up his pressure on global tech giant Google days after his Treasury secretary ruled out any national security concerns over the company’s work in China. Trump, in a tweet, did not offer any evidence of a problem with Google’s business in China but...

Spain’s Socialists said on Friday that they would keep working with all parties to avoid a repeat election but were no longer prepared to offer a coalition government to far-left Podemos, which blocked their attempt to be confirmed in power. In a parliamentary election three months ago,...

Britain’s media regulator fined Russia’s RT 200,000 pounds ($248,740) for breaching broadcasting impartiality rules in its coverage of the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal, the policies of Ukraine and the conflict in Syria. Relations between London and Moscow sank to a post-Cold War...

Libya's UN-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) on Friday targeted Al-Jufra airbase, controlled by forces based in the east of the troubled country. GNA's forces announced in a statement that the airstrike resulted in destroying a hangar used for drones and a cargo plane of forces...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warned of a full-scale armed conflict in the Middle East on Friday. Speaking at a BRICS foreign ministers meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Lavrov said the U.S. steps against Iran had led to a harsh escalation in the Persian Gulf region. "The situation...

A U.K. court has ruled in London's favor in a long-standing financial dispute with Iran that has wider political ramifications for Britain's increasingly strained relationship with the Islamic republic. The case revolves a payment of £650 million made by Iran in the 1970s to buy 1,500...

U.S. officials say Iran test-launched a medium-range ballistic missile, continuing a program criticized by the U.S. and other nations. The test was conducted on Wednesday within Iran's borders and posed no threat to U.S. forces, the officials said Friday. The officials spoke on condition of...

 Moroccan authorities say that 15 people have been killed in a landslide that buried their van under 20 meters of earth, leaving no survivors. The dead include a 6-year-old child, according to a local official at the scene of Thursday's tragedy. Heavy rainfall triggered multiple...

Tunisia is gearing up for snap elections as early as September following the death of president Beji Caid Essebsi, amid uncertainty over who could step forward to run the North African country. Essebsi, the country's first head of state elected in nationwide polls, died Thursday at the age...

A member of a recently-formed "dialogue committee" in Algeria said on Friday that the body's mission was to reach general consensus on holding presidential polls as soon as possible.  Earlier on Thursday, the Algerian interim presidency announced a six-member committee of "independent...

Somewhere on its journey from the waters off Iran, around Africa's southern tip and into the Mediterranean, the Grace 1 oil tanker lost the flag under which it sailed and ceased to be registered to Panama. Iran later claimed it as its own. The ship carrying 2 million barrels of Iranian...

French President Emmanuel Macron will discuss Brexit in the coming weeks with new U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and has invited Johnson to France for a visit in the next few weeks, said an official from Macron's Elysee office Friday. The official said the two leaders had spoken...

Protesters in Hong Kong have taken their cause to one of the busiest airports in the world. Demonstrators dressed in black filled the arrival hall Friday at Hong Kong International Airport, where they greeted international visitors with chants of "There are no riots, there's only tyranny!"...

Iran has freed nine of 12 Indian crew from a Panama-flagged tanker seized on July 14, India's Foreign Ministry said Friday. Iran had accused the vessel, the MT Riah, of smuggling contraband fuel when it was detained, amid mounting tensions between the Iranian government and Britain and the...

The Hamas resistance group said Thursday it supported Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ decision to suspend all agreements signed with Israel. The Gaza-based group said in a written statement that the Ramallah-based government’s decision was “a step taken in right direction”. Abbas...

Tunisian Parliament speaker Mohamed Ennaceur was sworn in as interim president Thursday, hours after President Beji Caid Essebsi’s death, in a smooth transition of power in the birthplace of the Arab Spring. Under Tunisia’s constitution, the president should assume the presidency for 45 to...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un supervised the launch of "a new-type of tactical guided weapon" as a "solemn warning to South Korean military warmongers," state news wire KCNA said Friday. Kim "personally organized and guided" the firing of the "state-of-the-art weaponry system" on...

Confronting the first crisis of his premiership, Boris Johnson must decide what to do about the Stena Impero, the British oil tanker being held by the Islamic Republic of Iran. The regime in Tehran has named its price: the release of the Grace 1, an Iranian ship carrying oil to Syria that was...