The U.S. issued a stern ultimatum to the international business community Wednesday, warning against commodity-based trade with the Venezuelan government, just two days after Washington blacklisted Venezuela's state-owned oil company. "My advice to bankers, brokers, traders, facilitators,...

Russia is ready to participate in international efforts regarding the settlement of the Venezuelan crisis, the country's foreign minister said on Wednesday. However, all initiatives for mediation must be impartial, Sergey Lavrov told a news conference following a meeting with his Iraqi...

Macedonian prime minister on Wednesday said his country did not have any alternative other than full membership of the European Union. In a joint press meeting with Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, Zoran Zaev said that the name issue between his country and Greece has been settled....

One of the pioneer figures of France's Yellow Vest protests on Wednesday announced that he would leave France if the government didn't adopt new economic measures to ease problems of French people. In a statement issued on social media, Maxime Nicolle argued that the measures the French...

Security agents briefly detained a senior leader of Sudan's main opposition party Wednesday, her family said, as authorities pressed on with a crackdown on anti-government protests that have rocked the country. Mariam Sadiq al-Mahdi, deputy chief of the Umma party, had been taken away...

Apple Inc plans to cut the price of some of its flagship iPhones for only the second time in the device’s 12-year history, pegging its retail value to past prices in local currencies outside the United States instead of the rising U.S. dollar. The move is an attempt to stem weak sales...

E-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd’s quarterly revenue grew at its weakest pace since 2016, as the impact of a slowing Chinese economy and a crippling Sino-U.S. trade war kept buyers away during its top-sale season. The result is likely to add to investor worries as it...

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has alleged that the U.S. and Colombian presidents have hatched a plot to murder him. In a no-holds-barred interview to Russian news agency RIA Novosti, Maduro said: "Without a doubt, Donald Trump has given the order to kill me and has told the Colombian...

With competing claims of authority rocking the country, Greece does not want Venezuela to become a weak, divided state, said a top Greek diplomat on Wednesday. "We do not want Venezuela to become yet another Libya in South America," Giorgos Katrougalos, the alternate minister of foreign...

Spain's Foreign Minister Josep Borrell Fontelles said Spain and the EU are "against every kind of military intervention on Venezuela." Borrell said "Spain does not want a change of regime" in Venezuela, but Venezuelans can freely express "who they want to govern them." Borrell's remarks...

A UN official on Wednesday condemned Israel's expansion of settlements and deadly violation in the occupied West Bank. “The international community must take decisive action in response to Israel’s recent intensification of settlement activities in the occupied West Bank, including East...

A minister threatened to ban Amnesty International from Israel after the rights group on Wednesday accused Airbnb, Booking.com, Expedia and TripAdvisor of profiting from "war crimes" by offering accommodation in settlements. "Amnesty International, that hypocritical organisation that speaks...

A Palestinian woman tried to stab Israeli guards at a checkpoint on the outskirts of Jerusalem on Wednesday, Israeli police said, with Palestinian officials reporting she was shot dead. "At the security checkpoint at Zaim a female suspect attempted to stab security guards that were on...

Asia's football body promised a "thorough investigation" on Wednesday after the United Arab Emirates' turbulent Asian Cup semi-final loss to arch-rivals Qatar, during which fans hurled shoes and bottles. Plastic water bottles pelted the turf and several shoes were hurled, an Arab...

The crisis in Venezuela has triggered fresh tensions between Washington and Moscow, with chilly exchanges at the United Nations, but analysts warn against the temptation of seeing the return of Cold War-style divisions. Since Venezuelan parliament leader Juan Guaido declared himself...

Neymar will miss both legs of Paris Saint-Germain's upcoming Champions League last-16 tie against Manchester United after the French club confirmed on Wednesday that the world's most expensive player would be out for 10 weeks with a metatarsal injury. However, Neymar will not undergo an...

Theresa May's bid to reopen the Brexit deal could be a final throw of the dice or another delay to get MPs to back it -- but either way, she is running out of options. Analysts have warned of the growing risk of Britain leaving the European Union on March 29 with no agreement at all or even...

A human rights group and a major trade union went to France's top administrative court on Wednesday seeking a ban on riot police use of rubber bullets, which are blamed for injuring dozens of "yellow vest" protesters. The police have drawn fire over their repeated use of rubber bullets to...

Sudanese security forces Wednesday detained Mariam Sadiq al-Mahdi, the daughter of a senior opposition leader who was Sudan's last democratically elected prime minister, her family said. Two security vehicles arrived at Mariam's home Wednesday morning and took her away, her sister Rabah...

Twelve people have been killed in floods after heavy rain lashed northern parts of Saudi Arabia this week, the civil defense agency said Wednesday. Ten died in the northwestern city of Tabuk and one each in the holy city of Medina and in northern border areas, the agency said in a...