Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer on Thursday signed an agreement for the sale of its commercial divison to Boeing -- and set the date for a shareholders meeting to approve the tie-up on February 26. Despite initital reservations, Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro already gave the...

From statue plaques to school books and trade agreements, the proof of a historic deal between Greece and Macedonia to change the latter's name -- a process that needs to be ratified by Greek parliament Friday -- lies in the small print. Macedonia's parliament recently backed a...

The Taliban have appointed a co-founder of the movement as the new head of their political office in Doha, where talks have been held since Monday with US officials seeking to end 17 years of conflict in Afghanistan. "The esteemed Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar has been appointed ... head of...

U.S. senators made a new try at ending a partial month-long government shutdown through a temporary funding bill on Thursday, but President Donald Trump demanded a "down payment" for a border wall that Democrats reject. After the Republican-led Senate failed to advance two measures to...

A Turkish court on Friday ordered the supervised release of a detained lawmaker from the pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP) who is seriously ill as a result of her 11-week hunger strike. Leyla Guven, 55, launched a hunger strike on November 8 in protest at the prison conditions for...

At least 16 members of a single family have been killed in an airstrike by U.S. forces in Afghanistan's restive Helmand province, officials and local media confirmed late Thursday. Helmand Governor Mohammad Yasin Khan has condemned the strike and has called for an investigation....

The United States has not asked for a specific price for the upkeep of its troops in South Korea, President Moon Jae-in said Friday.  Such reports are a "disregard for any leader in the world", a statement issued by the South Korean Presidency quoted Moon as saying.  Reports...

In the wake of demonstrations and unrest in Venezuela, at least 268 protesters have been arrested across the country since Monday, according to local media reports on Thursday. Admiral William Serantes Pinto, commander of the Eastern Integral Defense Strategic Region (Redior), said the...

Political leaders in both Greece and Germany came out in support for Venezuela's elected leader late Thursday against a parliamentary leader's claim to be “interim president”. In Greece, the ruling party weighed squarely in on the side of President Nicolas Maduro. “SYRIZA expresses its...

The U.S. is sending additional troops to Syria to help provide protection to other American forces and their equipment as they withdraw from the country under a directive from President Donald Trump, a defense official confirmed Thursday. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity,...

The Venezuelan Embassy in Turkey on Thursday urged solitary from the people of Turkey amid opposition leader Juan Guaido declaring himself interim president.  “We expect solidarity from the Turkish people,” the embassy said in a statement. The move came after the U.S. recognition...

A UN official on extrajudicial executions will be in Turkey next week for an international probe of last fall's killing of a Saudi journalist in Istanbul, UN sources told Anadolu Agency on Thursday.  Agnes Callamard, the UN’s special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday warned Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro not to use force against mass demonstrations and urged further international support for the self-declared acting president. A day after the United States and major Latin American nations recognized opposition...

Activists are criticising the World Economic Forum for allowing a large Saudi presence in Davos this week without devoting time to the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The Saudi presence "is deeply distressing", Amnesty International chief Kumi Naidoo told AFP on the sidelines of the...

A special tribunal has recommended that Interior Minister Matteo Salvini face trial for refusing to let 150 migrants disembark last year from a rescue ship docked in Sicily, the far-right leader said on Thursday. The court, which reviews investigations involving government ministers,...

Kiev's leadership and Western supporters expressed fears over Russian interference in Ukrainian elections this year, at a conference on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday. The spectre of a populist candidate winning the presidential vote at the end of March also...

Dutch lawmakers on Thursday grilled a top minister on a controversial bill granting Prime Minister Mark Rutte's government emergency powers to counteract any unforseen post-Brexit effects. The measure would allow ministers to amend laws without a parliamentary nod to cope with "unknown...

A pair of US congressional committees now under Democratic control have begun probing Deutsche Bank's business dealings with President Donald Trump, a spokesperson for the German bank said Thursday. The inquiry is a joint effort between House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff and...

The U.S. on Thursday called on the UN Security Council to hold an open meeting to discuss the crisis in Venezuela, after mass demonstrations and opposition leader Juan Guaido declared himself interim president. The U.S. mission to the UN said on Twitter it has "officially requested an open...

The leaders of Britain’s two largest trade unions on Thursday called on Prime Minister Theresa May to delay Brexit to prevent a no-deal exit from the EU. In separate meetings with May, Len McCluskey of Unite and Dave Prentis of Unison discussed the severity of leaving the EU without a deal...