MasterCard Inc said on Tuesday it had expanded its deal with payment processor PayPal Holdings Inc, which would allow customers to use PayPal's payment services in stores. PayPal's partnership follows a similar deal with MasterCard's larger rival Visa Inc in July as the company looks to...

Tajikistan's security services are investigating unspecified threats of action this month purportedly made by a former commander of the Central Asian nation's elite police force who has defected to Islamic State, security sources said on Tuesday. Colonel Gulmurod Khalimov, who has gone...

China is lauding its successful hosting of the G20 summit in scenic Hangzhou, with open confrontation largely avoided and broad consensus reached over the fragile state of the global economy and the need for a wide range of policies to fix it. There was even a joint announcement by China and...

JOHANNESBURG South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) said late Monday it looked forward to deepening trade and bilateral relations with Turkey. ANC Treasurer-General Zweli Mkhize said South Africa and Turkey shared a lot in common and should work together for their...

A Taliban suicide attack near the defence ministry in Kabul killed at least 24 people on Monday, including a number of senior security officials, and wounded 91 others, officials said. Two blasts in quick succession hit a crowded area of the city near government buildings, a market and a...

Britain's Barclays (BARC.L) has hired JPMorgan (JPM.N) banker Tim Throsby to head its Corporate and International division, ending a six-month search for the number two job under Chief Executive Jes Staley. Throsby, 50, will also run Barclays' investment banking business within that...

World shares saw their biggest jump in over a month on Monday and the dollar slipped, after weaker-than-expected U.S. jobs figures gave investors another excuse to push back Federal Reserve interest rate rise expectations. European shares touched a four-month high led by mining and oil firms...

Atlantic storm Hermine, which has killed two people, lurked off the middle of the U.S. East Coast late on Sunday while threatening to regain hurricane strength, after having spared the region the brunt of its wind, rain and tidal surge. Forecasters warned swimmers and boaters to avoid the...

(Reuters) - North Korea fired three ballistic missiles into the sea off its east coast on Monday, South Korea's military said, as the leaders of the Group of 20 major economies held a summit in China, the North's main diplomatic ally. The missiles were fired from a region south of...

 Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine on Sunday defended Hillary Clinton against criticism over her handling of classified information as secretary of state, saying she was unaware of the sensitivity of some information she exchanged over email because it had been "improperly...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has stressed that a political solution for Syria and stability in the civil war-torn country are necessary for an effective fight against Daesh, during a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the sidelines of the G20 summit in China. Turkish...

The United States and Russia on Sunday tried to finalize a ceasefire deal for Syria, a second this year after a first collapsed, but U.S. President Barack Obama said "grave differences" remained and fighting on the ground continued. A truce brokered by the Cold War foes in February broke...

KABUL — All day long, a line of Afghans waited outside Farid Hamidi’s office, clutching sheaves of tattered legal papers they had brought to other officials in the past. They had heard that Afghanistan’s new attorney general was an honest man, willing to listen to anyone, so they had gathered up...

The British government will set out in the coming week how it plans to shape its relationship with the European Union upon leaving the bloc, Prime Minister Theresa May said in an interview broadcast on Sunday. Since taking office in July, May and her Brexit minister David Davis have given...

An EU ruling that Apple Inc must pay a huge tax bill to Ireland was clearly based on facts and existing rules and was not a decision aimed against the United States, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said on Sunday. Ireland to appeal EU Apple tax ruling Last week,...

U.S. President Barack Obama said on Sunday bilateral talks with China's Xi Jinping had been "extremely productive", as world leaders gathered for a G20 summit expected to address sluggish global economic growth and the looming specter of protectionism. Some G20 leaders have already begun...

South Korean President Park Geun-hye called on Russia and other major global players on Saturday to increase pressure on North Korea to abandon its nuclear program which could open the road for cooperation with Pyongyang. "If we cannot prevent (North Korea's) development of nuclear weapons,...

Thailand’s revered 88-year-old King Bhumibol Adulyadej -- the world’s longest reigning monarch -- is being treated for “a severe infection” and doctors have removed water from his lungs, according to the Royal Household. The Bangkok Post reported Saturday that a statement from the bureau...

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe arrived at the capital's main airport from abroad on Saturday, according to a Reuters witness, following intense rumors that he was gravely ill and had sought medical help in Dubai. Mugabe, 92 and Africa's oldest leader, looked jovial as he disembarked in...

Rescuers pulled 1,725 migrants to safety from boats in the Mediterranean on Thursday, Italy's coast guard said, as seaborne arrivals to Europe's southern shores keep climbing. Sixteen separate missions were involved in rescuing the migrants, including Italy's coast guard and navy, the European...