President Donald Trump’s longtime adviser Roger Stone made multiple media appearances in Washington on Thursday, talking freely with reporters before he was set to appear in court on Friday and likely face a gag order from a judge. Charged by Special Counsel Robert Mueller with...

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has ceased all assistance to Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza, a U.S. official said on Friday. The decision was linked to a Jan. 31 deadline set by new U.S. legislation under which foreign aid recipients would be more...

Investors piled into bonds in the past week and pulled billions of dollars from U.S. and European stocks as they sought safety in assets seen as less risky in times of economic uncertainty, Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML) said on Friday. The bank’s report, based on EPFR data which...

Premier League spending in the January transfer window fell for the first time since 2012, with clubs paying a total of £180 million ($235 million) for new players, according to football finance experts at Deloitte. Nearly a third of the total expenditure was accounted for by Chelsea's...

Germany said Friday that Russia had "de facto invalidated" a landmark Cold War missile reduction treaty which the US is poised to abandon, with Europe anxious at the prospect of a new arms race. A US deadline for Russia to come back into compliance with the Intermediate-Range Nuclear...

Denmark's Danske Bank, caught up in a massive money laundering scandal, said Friday its 2018 earnings plunged nearly 30 percent and promised tighter controls to prevent any further regulatory lapses. Net profit came in at 15 billion kroner (2 billion euros) for the year, down 28 percent...

The number of rape and sexual offence complaints made to French police "rose sharply" in 2018, according to figures published Thursday by the interior ministry. Rape complaints increased almost 17 percent while sexual assault complaints jumped by around 20 percent, the statistics...

 The United Steelworkers union (USW) and Shell Oil Co reached a tentative agreement on Thursday that sources familiar with the deal said would boost pay by 11 percent over three years for 30,000 U.S. refinery, chemical plant and pipeline workers. Workers represented by the USW will...

Estonia’s push to become a digital society has left it vulnerable to dirty money and sanction breaches, the country’s top banking regulator has warned. The Baltic state took center stage in one of the largest-ever money laundering scandals last year - the Estonian branch of Danske Bank...

Amazon.com Inc on Thursday forecast first-quarter sales below Wall Street estimates, warning that new regulations in India had created uncertainty around one of its key growth markets and saying it would step up investments in 2019. Shares of the company fell 5 percent to $1,635 after...

This Bud’s for you. At least, that is what Anheuser-Busch InBev hopes as it strives to reach more than 100 million U.S. TV viewers during Sunday’s Super Bowl, promoting vintage brands such as Budweiser and Bud Light. The world’s largest brewer will not say how much it is...

U.S. electric carmaker Tesla Inc said it will start taking orders in China on Friday for a lower-priced version of its Model 3 vehicle, whose price will start at 433,000 yuan ($64,300.56). Tesla, which is building a factory in Shanghai, said in a statement that it will start selling a...

A former Australian lawmaker retired from the board of the local arm of China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd on Friday, potentially weakening the firm’s efforts to withstand government moves to restrict its market access on security grounds. John Brumby, a former premier of the state of...

 Facebook Inc has removed hundreds of Indonesian accounts, pages and groups from its social network after discovering they were linked to an online group accused of spreading hate speech and fake news. Indonesian police uncovered the existence of the group, called Saracen, in 2016...

Nayib Bukele is favored to win El Salvador's presidency when voters head to the polls on Sunday, as the country grapples with violence, corruption, poverty and an exodus of migrants seeking to reach the United States. El Salvador is one of the most violent countries in the world, the three...

Japan’s Sony Corp raked in its highest-ever quarterly profit after booking one-time gains related to its acquisition of EMI, though shrinking earnings at the game division could further prompt investors to look for next growth drivers. Sony has reinvented itself as an entertainment...

Amy Spiro is one of many Israeli journalists who recently received a direct message on her Twitter account linking to a sensational news story. The sender, using the Jewish-sounding name "Bina Melamed", directed her to a fake story falsely alleging former Israeli defence minister Avigdor...

The United States and China said their trade war negotiations resulted in major progress as the clock ticks on a March deadline to avert a massive escalation of tariffs that could bruise the global economy. US President Donald Trump hailed "tremendous progress" and welcomed a "beautiful"...

Germany's biggest lender Deutsche Bank reported Friday a 2018 bottom line in the black for the first time in four years, with a cost-cutting drive delivering results even as revenues fell. The firm reported 267 million euros ($305 million) net profit, compared with a loss of 751 million in...

Pakistan on Thursday dismissed allegations by the U.S. that Islamabad was providing shelter to the terrorist groups on its soil. Earlier this week, U.S Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats in a threat assessment report to the Senate repeated Washington’s longtime claim Islamabad...