Canadian manufacturing group Bombardier announced on Monday it had signed a multi-billion dollar agreement to build two automated monorail lines in Egypt's notoriously congested capital Cairo. The $4.5 billion (4 billion euro) agreement, which was signed with Egypt's National Authority for...

President Donald Trump on Monday ordered a freeze on all Venezuelan government assets in the United States and barred transactions with its authorities, in Washington's latest move against President Nicolas Maduro. Trump took the step "in light of the continued usurpation of power by...

Seoul and Washington began annual joint military exercises on Monday, defying warnings from Pyongyang that the war games will jeopardise nuclear negotiations between the United States and North Korea. The drills come after Pyongyang tested a series of short-range projectiles in recent days,...

Two people were killed in a blast targeting workers for an Afghan television station and at least seven police officers died in an insider attack by Taliban loyalists on Sunday as US and Taliban negotiators met for renewed peace talks in Doha. The deadly incidents came amid surging violence...