The White House warned Thursday that failure to approve the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact will put billions of dollars in US exports at risk to competition from China. Without TPP, which has been a hot-button issue in the US presidential campaign, China and other countries could move...

(The Daily Star)- Income from Tunisia's tourism sector, hard-hit by extremist attacks, fell eight percent in the first nine months of 2016 compared with the same period last year, according to official figures. From January 1 to Sept. 31, tourism firms took 1.8 billion dinars ($811 million,...

(The Daily Star)-  Novak Djokovic, fighting to extend his run as world number one, recovered from an early wobble to defeat Grigor Dimitrov in the last 16 of the Paris Masters Thursday. The record four-time champion will remain top of the rankings if he reaches the final in the French...

The start of this year proved deadly for one unit of about 100 Russian fighters supporting President Bashar al-Assad's troops in northern Syria. On Feb. 3, 38-year-old Maxim Kolganov was killed in a firefight with rebels near Aleppo when a bullet pierced his body armor and heart. Then,...