Asian markets mostly fell Wednesday with nervous investors keeping tabs on developments in the China-US trade talks and the Brexit saga, while awaiting the conclusion of a key Federal Reserve meeting. A general optimism about the outlook for the tariffs negotiations has helped propel...

Facebook-owned Instagram on Tuesday made a move into potentially lucrative e-commerce by adding an option to buy products shown off in posts by selected brands. A new "checkout" button for instant purchasing launched in a beta version of the app in the US with a limited number of...

Dutch voters on Wednesday head to provincial polls billed as a referendum on Prime Minister Mark Rutte's policies, after a campaign overshadowed by a possible terror attack on a tram. Right-wing parties pushed the issue of integration back into the foreground as the country reeled from...

Gaza has seen regular protests along the Israeli border for the past year, but new demonstrations in recent days have been much less to the liking of the strip's rulers Hamas. Over the course of several days beginning last week, hundreds of Palestinians gathered in multiple locations in...

Two Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces in clashes near a flashpoint religious site in the occupied West Bank overnight Wednesday, the Palestinian health ministry said. The health ministry said Raid Hamdan, 21, and Zaid Nouri, 20, died after being shot late Tuesday by Israeli troops...

None of the roughly 200 people who watched a live broadcast of an attack on two mosques in New Zealand reported the video to Facebook, the social media company said. The video received a full 4,000 views before it was taken down, Facebook said in a statement released Monday, adding the...

Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has agreed to hand over power to an elected president, and the opposition will be allowed to take part in the Cabinet that will oversee elections, the country's new deputy prime minister said on Monday. Speaking at a news conference in Moscow with...

High-level U.S.-Russian talks on how to defuse Venezuela’s crisis ended on Tuesday with the two sides still at odds over the legitimacy of President Nicolas Maduro. Russia has said Maduro remains the country’s only legitimate leader whereas the United States and many other Western countries...

France's World Cup-winning coach Didier Deschamps has told AFP he would like to remain in his job until the 2022 finals in Qatar. The 50-year-old Deschamps, who took charge of France in 2012, guided Les Bleus to a second World Cup title in Russia, two decades after lifting the trophy as...

The United Nations will present a new plan for the pullback of forces from Yemen's flashpoint city of Hodeida following talks with the government and Huthi rebels, a UN envoy said Tuesday. The redeployment of forces was agreed in December under a ceasefire deal reached in Sweden that...

Hungary opened a new trade office in west Jerusalem on Tuesday, fulfilling a February pledge by Prime Minister Viktor Orban to Israel to do so in the disputed city. The opening stops short of moving Hungary's Israel embassy to Jerusalem as US President Donald Trump has done, breaking with...

Google on Tuesday unveiled a streaming platform called Stadia that allows video game play on any internet-connected device, eliminating the need for games consoles. The tech platform, announced at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, aims to connect more people to participate in...

The U.S. on Tuesday blacklisted Venezuela's state-owned gold mining company CVG Compania General de Mineria de Venezuela CA, or Minerven, in its latest effort to clamp down on the country's gold trade. Minerven President Adrian Antonio Perdomo Mata was also designated in a pair of actions...

Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s death was part of a broader operation to crack down on dissidents, which should shed any remaining illusions about the kingdom, The New York Times said Tuesday. "It comes as little surprise, sadly, that the Saudi thugs who slaughtered Jamal Khashoggi were...

Palestinian group Hamas on Tuesday expressed solidarity with the Turkish people and leadership in the face of “Israeli provocations". “We stand by Turkey’s leadership and its people against the Israeli provocations,” Hamas’ spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri told Anadolu Agency on Tuesday....

 A senior U.S. arms control official said Tuesday that Iran's missile program is destabilizing the Middle East and raising the risk of a "regional arms race" through the provision of such weapons to armed groups in Lebanon and Yemen. U.S. President Donald Trump said when he quit a...

Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit plans were in disarray on Tuesday as her government sought to plot a way around a ruling by the speaker of parliament that she must change her twice-defeated divorce deal to put it to a third vote. After two-and-a-half years of negotiations, Britain’s...

French President Emmanuel Macron has set a new personal record for talking during a public appearance by debating for more than eight hours with intellectuals and scientists. For two and half months, the 41-year-old has criss-crossed France for town-hall meetings as part of his "Great...

Germany launched its auction Tuesday for the construction of an ultra-fast 5G mobile network as a transatlantic dispute rages over security concerns surrounding giant Chinese telecoms equipment maker Huawei. The United States has warned it could scale back the sharing of sensitive...

Hundreds of students and doctors rallied in Algiers Tuesday calling for President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to step down after his term expires on April 28. Students massed in the centre of Algiers while doctors protested at another location in the Algerian capital calling for Bouteflika to quit...