President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday that Turkey would soon close its border with northern Iraq and shut its air space in response to last week's Kurdish independence referendum. Erdogan, who held talks in Tehran on Wednesday with Iranian leaders, also said Turkey would decide...

Saudi Arabia has told the International Monetary Fund that it is reconsidering the speed at which it imposes austerity steps to avoid slowing the economy too much and boosting unemployment, the IMF said Thursday. "The authorities indicated that they were considering the appropriate pace...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 30 regime troops killed in US airstrikes on their convoy after the regime made an incursion into the 55km "de-confliction zone" surrounding the US base near al-Tanaf border crossing with Iraq, rebel commander said on Thursday. Saeed Saif, spokesman for...

LONDON (Reuters) - Global stocks came off record highs and the euro held near a seven-week low on Thursday as investors prepared to parse minutes from the European Central Bank’s last meeting for clues to its exit from ultra-easy monetary policy. Political tensions emanating from Spain,...

(Reuters) - A gauge of global stocks and Wall Street rallied to fresh highs on Wednesday on encouraging growth worldwide, while the dollar fell even as data revealed an accelerating U.S. service sector that could lead to higher interest rates in December. The Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq...

(Reuters) - Asian shares were a tad firmer on Thursday, taking their cues from strong U.S. data although holiday-thinned trade and uncertainty about the impact of recent hurricanes on the U.S. economy are likely to keep investors cautious. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares...

(Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Tuesday while on a trip to Puerto Rico to observe hurricane recovery efforts that the island’s massive debt will have to be wiped out. “They owe a lot of money to your friends on Wall Street and we’re going to have to wipe that out. You’re...

YOKOHAMA (Reuters) -  Nissan Motor Co Ltd (7201.T) will recall all 1.2 million new passenger cars it sold in Japan over the past three years after discovering final vehicle inspections were not performed by authorized technicians, it said on Monday. The recall is the second major...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Asian shares rose on Tuesday, taking heart from record closes on Wall Street and upbeat economic data that lifted U.S. Treasury yields and the dollar, even as weaker oil prices took their toll on energy stocks. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - The euro took a knock in Asia on Monday as investors kept an anxious eye on an independence vote in Spain’s Catalonia, while surprisingly strong economic news out of China and Japan offered support to equities and commodities. The euro fell 0.3 percent after the...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Oil prices fell on Monday, pausing for breath after posting gains of as much as 20 percent in the third quarter, after a survey pointed to a slight increase in OPEC production in September. U.S. crude was down 13 cents, or 0.3 percent, at $51.54 a barrel at 0346 GMT....

 The European Commission has shied away from ranking which cities should host Europe’s drugs regulator and banking authority after Brexit, saying the decision is up to the 27 member states which will remain. The EU executive said its assessment, published on Saturday, was wholly...

(Reuters) - The wealthiest Americans would benefit the most from President Donald Trump’s proposed tax cuts while many upper middle-income people would face higher taxes, independent experts said on Friday in the first detailed analysis of the plan. A U.S. Senate panel took Trump’s...

(Eqtsad)- Rubble still covers the area, abandoned buildings with no doors or windows. This is how Aleppo's industrial zone of al-Lyramon looks like after regime recaptured it more than a year ago. Regime media makes it look otherwise. The news transmitted by regime media of...

Volkswagen will take a hit of around 2.5 billion euros ($3 billion) to its third-quarter results because a program to buy back or retrofit diesel engine cars in North America is proving more complex and time-consuming than expected, it said on Friday. Its shares dropped after the...

(Eqtsad)- Following the battles regime forces and Iranian militias supported by Russian air force fought against ISIS in the eastern Homs countryside, the regime began to reap outcomes of those battles and the price of lives that were lost during the battles in its ranks through the...

Japan’s Toshiba Corp said on Thursday it had signed an $18 billion deal to sell its chip unit to a consortium led by Bain Capital LP, overcoming a key - albeit not its last - hurdle as it scrambles for funds to stave off a potential delisting. The sale of the unit - the world’s second...

President Donald Trump proposed on Wednesday the biggest U.S. tax overhaul in three decades, calling for tax cuts for most Americans, but prompting criticism that the plan favors business and the rich and could add trillions of dollars to the deficit. The proposal drew a swift,...

(Reuters) - Ford Motor Co (F.N) said on Wednesday it will collaborate with Lyft to deploy Ford self-driving vehicles on the ride-services company’s network in large numbers by 2021. Ford and Lyft teams will begin working together to design software to allow Ford vehicles to communicate...

(Reuters) - Global sales of industrial robots rose by 16 percent in 2016, driven by the electronics industry, and are expected to rise faster in 2017, the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) said on Wednesday. The world market was worth $13.1 billion, an increase of 18 percent,...