Top finance officials from seven advanced economies have gathered to hear more about U.S. President Donald Trump's economic policies on taxation and trade as well as to look for ways to promote growth, combat terrorist financing and stop tax avoidance by major corporations. The meeting...

Turkey has agreed to a request from the Australian government to extradite a citizen it believes to be a top recruiter for ISIS, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said Friday. Melbourne-born Neil Prakash has been linked to several Australia-based attack plans and has appeared in ISIS videos...

President Donald Trump blasted ousted FBI chief James Comey as a "showboat" and "grandstander" on Thursday even as the agency's acting leader contradicted the president's account that the FBI had been in turmoil before he fired Comey. In testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee,...

Donald Trump's administration was left red-faced Thursday after the Kremlin surprised them by releasing pictures of a closed-door meeting between the US president and Russia's top diplomat. The images -- issued by the Russian state news agency TASS, and subsequently published by much of the...

 The United Nations said Thursday it was in talks with Iran, Russia and Turkey over who should control proposed safe zones in Syria, a key question after Damascus rejected any international monitors. The U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura and humanitarian pointman Jan Egeland both said...

The United Nations still has "a million questions" about a Syria deal struck last week by Russia, Turkey and Iran, with a reported reduction in the fighting but aid convoys remain almost totally stalled, a U.N. aid official said Thursday. "Now Russia and Turkey and Iran explained to us today...

The Kremlin feels cautious optimism about the prospects for an improvement in U.S.-Russian relations after Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington, a Kremlin spokesman said Thursday. "The conversation itself is extremely positive," Kremlin...

 Iraq and Algeria say they support the extension of oil production cuts by OPEC and non-OPEC producers through the end of the year to try to boost prices. In a joint press conference Thursday in Baghdad by the oil ministers of the two countries, Iraqi Oil Minister Jabar Ali al-Luaibi...

Bangladesh police Thursday raided a suspected Islamist hideout in an operation that left five relatives and a fire officer dead, officials said. Police shot dead the five people, all from the same family, as they emerged from a house in northwest Bangladesh, senior police officer Sumit...

New South Korean President Moon Jae-In spoke to the leaders of China and Japan Thursday, hours after a telephone call with his US counterpart Donald Trump, officials and reports said, as he began shaping his approach to the nuclear-armed North. In a 40-minute conversation with Chinese leader...

Venezuelan protesters hit the streets on Wednesday armed with "Poopootov cocktails," jars filled with excrement which they vowed to hurl at police as a wave of anti-government demonstrations turned dirty. "We are using those 'poopootov' bombs as we call them because they repress us with...

Russia's top diplomat met President Donald Trump on Wednesday and praised the U.S. administration as problem solvers, just as the White House drew criticism over the firing of the FBI director who was leading a probe into Moscow's alleged interference in U.S. politics. The talks with Foreign...

The Trump administration is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information about the whereabouts of the military leader of Syria's al-Qaeda affiliated Nusra Front. The State Department says the reward will be paid for information "leading to the identification or location" of Abu...

Turkey urged the United States on Wednesday to reverse a decision to arm Kurdish forces fighting Islamic State (IS) in Syria, saying every weapon supplied to the YPG militia constituted "a threat to Turkey". The angry reply came a week before President Tayyip Erdogan is due in Washington for...

Gunfire sounded in a flashpoint Saudi Arabian town Wednesday as authorities moved on a neighborhood slated for redevelopment, residents said. The Shiite town of Awamiya, on the Gulf coast, has seen repeated security incidents in recent years. Pictures purportedly from the scene...

King Abdullah II of Jordan, Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and Niger's Mahamadou Issoufou are among leaders invited by Saudi King Salman for a summit with U.S. President Donald Trump. The Arab-Islamic-American Summit will be among a series of talks expected to be held in Riyadh on...

Oil futures rose on Wednesday after Reuters reported Saudi Arabia would cut supplies to the region as OPEC tries to counter rising U.S. output that is threatening to derail its attempts to end a sustained global crude glut. Oil was also supported by a larger than expected fall in U.S. crude...

South Korea's new liberal President Moon Jae-in was sworn in Wednesday and vowed to immediately tackle the difficult tasks of addressing North Korea's advancing nuclear ambitions and soothing tensions with the United States and China. Moon said in his first speech as president he would...

 An Afghan official says a bomb planted on a car killed a tribal leader and another civilian in the southern Kandahar province. Zia Durani, a spokesman for the provincial police chief, said Wednesday that the attack took place the night before in the Spin Boldak district near the border...

U.S. President Donald Trump will receive Russia's top diplomat Sergei Lavrov at the White House Wednesday even as a political firestorm has put Moscow's alleged meddling in the U.S. election back in the spotlight. Lavrov's visit, confirmed by the White House late Tuesday, centers on a...