Google has told its Turkish business partners it will not be able to work with them on new Android phones to be released in Turkey, after the Turkish competition board ruled that changes Google made to its contracts were not acceptable. Turkey’s competition authority had fined Google 93...

A Turkish drone meant to help seek hydrocarbons in the eastern Mediterranean landed at an airport on the divided island of Cyprus on Monday, a Turkish official said, in a move that could further stoke tensions between Turkey and Greece. The breakaway Turkish Cypriot cabinet on Friday...

U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper on Monday urged Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi to take steps to prevent bases housing U.S. troops from being shelled, a statement from the premier’s office said. Esper’s call came after a senior U.S. military official warned last week that attacks...

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang met with Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam in Beijing Monday, saying the Asian financial hub was not yet out of the "dilemma" facing the city's economy after months of sometimes violent protests. Li met with Lam during a regular duty visit where she is also due to hold a...

 Algeria’s unpopular presidential vote was meant to reset the country’s politics after months of crisis, but it exposed a rigid system determined to perpetuate itself, analysts say. “You get the impression of two parallel Algerias: a ruling class which congratulates itself on organizing...

Protests over a new citizenship law based on religion spread to student campuses across India Monday as critics said Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government was pushing a partisan agenda in conflict with India's founding as a secular republic. Anger with Modi's Hindu nationalist...

The "phase one" U.S.-China trade deal will nearly double U.S. exports to China over the next two years and is "totally done" despite the need for translation and revisions to its text, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said Sunday. Lighthizer, speaking on CBS' "Face the Nation"...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson will unveil a new government Monday that wields a sweeping mandate to take Britain out of the European Union after years of acrimonious debate. Johnson's simple promise to "get Brexit done" resonated in a snap election Thursday that became a re-run of Britain's...

The death toll from the powerful quake that hit the southern Philippines climbed to three Monday as rescuers used heavy equipment and their bare hands to hunt for survivors in a collapsed building. Sunday's tremor cracked schools, toppled homes and injured dozens but largely spared big...

New Zealanders across the country observed a minute of silence on Monday to honour the victims of last week's fatal volcanic eruption, as police continued efforts to recover two bodies. The official death toll from the surprise eruption on White Island, also known by its Maori name of...

At least 304 people were killed in Iran during a three-day crackdown against protests across the country in November, according to a new Amnesty International toll published Monday. The rights group had earlier estimated 208 deaths, including two youths aged 15 and 17. Iran has...

More than eight years into devastating conflict, Syria appears to be stuck in a situation of "no war and no peace", analysts have said. The Syrian conflict erupted in 2011 after government forces cracked down on civilian protesters demanding more freedom and economic opportunities....

At least 10 people were killed on Sunday when a fire swept through a fan factory near Bangladesh’s capital, police said, the second such accident in less than a week. Firefighters recovered 10 bodies as the fire ripped through the three-storey factory at Gazipur, on the outskirts of Dhaka,...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will “get Brexit done” by Jan. 31 and then agree a new trade deal with the European Union by the end of 2020, cabinet office minister Michael Gove said on Sunday, vowing to deliver on the government’s top priority. Johnson and his team were triumphant...

France’s CGT union threatened on Sunday to double its protests unless the government withdraws its pension reform proposal within the next week. In a major overhaul of its pension scheme, the French government has proposed that people work two years longer to get a full pension, drawing a...

Indian police fired tear gas and resorted to baton charges to disperse thousands of violent demonstrators who were torching vehicles in New Delhi on Sunday, as protests against a new citizenship law continued for a fifth straight day across the country. The new law enacted on Dec. 11 has...

Small groups of protesters gathered in shopping malls across Hong Kong on Sunday amid brief scuffles with riot police as attention turned to an upcoming meeting between Hong Kong’s leader and China’s president. Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam is scheduled to meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping in...

 Saad al-Hariri is expected to be named Lebanon’s prime minister on Monday, but political rifts look set to hinder agreement on a new government badly needed to rescue the country from a dire economic crisis. Hariri, a Western ally and the leading Sunni Muslim politician, is widely...

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Sunday he was "disappointed" by the results of a major U.N. climate summit in Madrid, calling it a missed opportunity to tackle the global warming crisis. Guterres issued the statement as the COP25 concluded its marathon meeting voicing "the...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday he has been given assurances by the son of Brazil’s president that Brazil will follow the United States and move its embassy to Jerusalem next year. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has signaled before he intends to move his...