More than 80 percent of members of a U.S. business lobby in China say foreign companies are less welcome than in the past, a survey released on Wednesday showed, with most saying they have little confidence in China's vows to open its markets. The American Chamber of Commerce in China's...

Alone in her room at an overcrowded retirement home in Damascus, Naz Ashiti thumbs through photographs of her daughters overseas, her eyes lingering on features she has not seen in years. Sending ageing family members to a retirement home was once unthinkable for most Syrians, but...

Brazilian authorities are scrambling to stop a wave of prison violence that has killed at least 125 inmates in two weeks, many with their heads cut off or their hearts and intestines ripped out. Three massacres and many smaller fatal clashes, all in northern states, have followed a pattern that...

(Eqtsad)- Islamic State forces announced an auction to rent the Shaer gas field in the eastern countryside of Homs, activists said as the radical group fears the U.S.-led Coalition air strikes and seeks a rapid cash. Activist Judet al-Jiran said ISIS has resembled what is popularly known as...