Alphabet Inc’s Google has hired more than a dozen microchip engineers in Bengaluru, India, in recent months and plans to rapidly add more, according to LinkedIn profiles, job postings and two industry executives, as the search firm expands its program to design the guts of its devices...

The Arab League said on Monday there was no consensus yet among member states that may allow the reinstatement of Syria’s membership which was suspended in 2011 over its crackdown on protesters at the start of the civil war. U.S.-allied Arab states including Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the...

As 12 Catalan separatist leaders prepare to go on trial in Madrid, Spain has been forced to defend the independence and impartiality of its courts. Catalan separatists have dismissed the high-profile trial which begins Tuesday at Spain's Supreme Court as a "farce" whose outcome is already...

Trade uncertainty weighed on Asian stocks Monday, at the start of a week that sees crunch China-US talks take place in Beijing aimed at averting fresh tariff escalations. Mainland Chinese markets reopened from their week-long Lunar New Year break to renewed concerns over the trade row and a...