Around 48,000 members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) labor union began a nationwide strike early Monday against U.S. automotive company General Motors, shutting down 33 manufacturing plants in nine states and 22 parts distribution warehouses. The strike, announced Sunday by the UAW, is...

An attack on Saudi Arabia that shut down 5 percent of global crude output caused the biggest surge in oil prices since 1991, after U.S. officials blamed Iran and President Donald Trump said Washington was "locked and loaded" to retaliate. The Iran-aligned Houthi movement that controls...

The Turkish president on Monday met his Iranian counterpart in the capital Ankara, ahead of the trilateral summit on Syria later in the day. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan received his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani at the presidential mansion and held a closed-door meeting that...

Venezuela’s opposition said on Sunday a dialogue mediated by Norway’s Foreign Ministry to try to resolve the country’s political crisis had ended, six weeks after President Nicolas Maduro’s government suspended participation. The talks, most of which had taken place on the Caribbean...