Britain and the EU agreed Thursday to hold more talks to try to avoid a no-deal Brexit after a "robust" meeting between Prime Minister Theresa May and European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker. Juncker reiterated in a joint statement that the EU-UK divorce agreement struck in November...

Thailand on Friday launched a Huawei Technologies 5G test bed, even as the United States urges its allies to bar the Chinese telecoms giant from building next-generation mobile networks. Huawei, the world’s top producer of telecoms equipment and second-biggest maker of smartphones, has been...

Facebook on Thursday announced it had restructured its team devoted to products or features designed to increase the social network's appeal to younger generations. Nascent projects such as a "LOL" platform for funny memes were taken off the board at the "youth team," which shifted focus to...

Aurora,  the buzzy startup founded by early pioneers of self-driving car technology who led programs at Google, Tesla and Uber, has raised more than $530 million in a Series B round led by Sequoia Capital and includes “significant investment” from Amazon and T. Rowe Price Associates....

A pair of armoured vehicles parked in a corner of the Peshmerga headquarters in northern Iraq form a stark reminder of the threat the region is facing by ISIL. "They were full of explosives when we captured them," Kurdish Peshmerga commander General Sirwan Barzani said, as he discussed the...

Apple is telling app developers to remove or properly disclose their use of analytics code that allows them to record how a user interacts with their iPhone apps — or face removal from the app store, TechCrunch can confirm. In an email, an Apple spokesperson said: “Protecting user privacy is...

All medals for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics will be made from metal collected by recycling electronic waste, games organisers said on Friday. Tokyo's organising committee in 2017 launched a project to collect assorted electronic waste -- including old smartphones and laptops -- from the public...

In spite of reassurances by the government of South Sudan that the country is on the path to implementing a 2018 peace deal, there have been fears of a relapse. Last September, warring parties in the country signed a landmark deal after a 2015 cease-fire was violated 24 hours after it was...

The U.S. withdrawal from Syria leaves questions for Turkey, the head of the Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research (SETA) said Thursday. Burhanettin Duran said queries regarding the controversial troop pullout plan and its aftermath in Syria needed answers. "What is the...

An Istanbul-based aid agency has provided food aid to over 1,000 needy families in northern Yemen. The Humanitarian Relief Association sent food packages and sacks of flour to families who had taken refuge in Al-Jawf governorate after fleeing from 12 provinces. Mohammed as-Sudi, head of...

- A United Nations-led inquiry into the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi said on Thursday that evidence pointed to a brutal crime “planned and perpetrated” by Saudi officials. Khashoggi’s killing by a team of Saudi operatives on Oct. 2 provoked widespread revulsion and tarnished...

A Kurdish-led force arrested 63 suspected militants in the Syrian city of Raqa Thursday during an operation against jihadist sleeper cells, it said in a statement. The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces said those detained belonged to "terrorist cells directly responsible for spreading...

France on Thursday recalled ambassador to Italy for consultations in wake of Italian government's meeting with Yellow Vest protestors. "France has been, for several months, the target of repeated, baseless attacks and outrageous statements (by the Italian government)," French Foreign...

The death toll from the collapse of an Istanbul apartment block rose to 10 on Thursday as more bodies were pulled from the rubble, Turkish authorities said. The eight-storey building, which is located in the Kartal district on the Asian side of the city, collapsed on Wednesday but the cause...

Carlos Queiroz was named coach of Colombia on Thursday, the country's football federation (FCF) said, replacing Argentine Jose Pekerman who left the post in September. Queiroz's appointment had long been expected but Colombia had to wait until the end of the recently-concluded Asian Cup for...

The Iranian government arrested, imprisoned or executed at least 860 journalists in the three decades between the Islamic revolution in 1979 and 2009, according to documents leaked to media monitoring group Reporters Sans Frontieres. At a news conference in Paris attended by Iranian...

A U.N. watchdog urged Syria on Thursday to grant full rights to its displaced children, adding that thousands had been killed, tortured or enslaved during the country’s civil war. Rights experts said all children living in opposition-held areas and returning as refugees should be given...

The United Nations aid chief on Thursday urged Yemen's Huthi rebels to grant access in the coming days to a food storage site in Hodeida containing enough grain to feed millions of starving civilians. The Huthis are refusing to allow UN aid agencies to cross front lines and reach the Red...

Recent gains by Kurdish-led forces in Syria have shrunk the Islamic State group's "caliphate" to less than one percent of its original size, the US-led coalition said on Thursday. Major General Christopher Ghika, the coalition's deputy commander, described the size of the last patch of land...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday defended the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project despite growing criticism by the U.S. and European countries. Merkel spoke at a news conference in the Slovakia's capital Bratislava, where she stressed Germany was diversifying its energy supplies...