The ability of Australian telecoms company Telstra Corporation (TLS.AX) to offset the fall in its traditional revenue streams by diversifying into a range of technology and other businesses is in doubt. So far, Telstra's funding of 44 startups since 2013, the A$235 million ($175 million)...

(The Guardian)- Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau, who was widely criticized for fondly remembering Fidel Castro without mention of his human rights record, has defended his comments but said the late Cuban leader was a dictator. Trudeau sparked fury and online mockery after he referred...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Palestinian-Syrian Gathering “Masir” has Saturday launched an initiative of “The National Syrian Salvation Initiative open for public discussion” during a discussing meeting in Istanbul. The initiative consists of critical revision of the Syrian situation as the...

Qatar will continue to arm Syrian rebels even if Donald Trump ends U.S. backing for the multinational effort, Doha's foreign minister said in an interview, signalling its determination to pursue a policy the U.S. President-elect may abandon. But Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman...

Three California mosques received a letter calling Muslims "vile and filthy," praising President-elect Donald Trump and saying he plans to "cleanse" America, an association of Muslim-Americans said Sunday. The same short, anti-Muslim letter -- addressed to "Children of Satan" -- was sent in...

Brazil's President Michel Temer, together with congressional leaders, vowed on Sunday to block any attempt by legislators to grant themselves a corruption amnesty as he sought to defuse a series of scandals. In a rare weekend news conference, the president sought to reassure Brazilians that...

Until three weeks ago, many of Abu Osama's customers were Islamic State militants who brought their wives and children to his pharmacy on the eastern edge of Mosul for injections and treatment. Now, most of them are Iraqi security forces who recaptured the Gogjali neighborhood earlier...

Greece is "finally ready to turn the page" on its financial crisis, EU commissioner and former French economy minister Pierre Moscovici said in remarks published Sunday ahead of crunch meetings. Moscovici is to hold talks Monday in Athens with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and in an...

(Zaman Al Wasl- In a recent incident, Moscow lost a major betting card it was playing to market and exaggerate the ability of the Russian equipment based on the equipment’s proven track record in the conflict in Syrian.  The Russians suffered a major and expensive loss with the...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Fifteen people were killed and dozens injured in the village of Aynjara in Aleppo’s western countryside following aerial strikes by the Russian warplanes on Sunday afternoon.  The local coordination committees reported that the massacre came after the Russian...

German pilots union VC should resume talks with Lufthansa to find a compromise over a long-running pay dispute rather than repeatedly going on strike, a board member at the airline told a German weekly. Lufthansa cancelled nearly 2,800 flights during a four-day strike from Wednesday that...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Well-informed sources said Russia's warplanes hit a border site with Jordan in southern Daraa province on November 10, killing 12 people, including 5 children and 4 women. Three Sukh-24 fighter jets took off from Russia-controlled Hmeimym air base in Latakia province, heading...

(The Daily Star)- The U.N. envoy for Yemen announced a new bid for peace talks between the government and rebels, after the latest cease-fire failed to bring an end the 20-month conflict. Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed said he was heading to Riyadh and Kuwait "to prepare for a new round" of talks,...

Israeli forces killed four gunmen belonging to an ISIS affiliate in Syria who had opened fire on soldiers in the occupied Golan Heights Sunday, a military spokesman said. Spokesman Peter Lerner told AFP the Israeli soldiers were targeted with machinegun fire and mortars and replied with...

 More than 400 Syrian civilians have fled rebel-held districts of eastern Aleppo for the government-controlled west as government forces advance in the city, activists said Sunday. The civilians fled overnight to the Masaken Hanano district and were taken to government-controlled areas,...

A string of explosions Saturday rocked a munitions storage site in northeastern Syria used by the US-led coalition battling the Islamic State group, a monitor and a local official said. “At least five explosions occurred on Saturday morning at the arms and munitions depots in a base close to...

Two mass graves of at least 18 members of Iraq's Yazidi minority, thousands of whom have been killed and kidnapped by ISIS, have been discovered as security forces fight to dislodge the militants from Mosul, a local official said. Kurdish peshmerga forces found the grave near the Shababit...

Firefighters extinguished blazes ravaging Israel and West Bank settlements that forced tens of thousands to flee their homes and saw more than 20 people arrested, authorities said Sunday. "There are no active sites left," fire and rescue service spokesman Yoram Levy told AFP. "Since last...

A rocket attack by ISIS militants in northern Syria caused symptoms of "chemical gas" in 22 Syrian rebels, state media cited the Turkish armed forces as saying Sunday. The attack targeted Turkey-backed rebels who have been besieging the ISIS-controlled town of al-Bab for days. Al-Bab is a...

The Pentagon late Saturday rejected media claims that U.S. soldiers at a PYD camp in Syria had been killed in an explosion. Earlier Saturday, some media reports claimed five U.S. soldiers and 2 PKK terrorists were killed in a blast which ripped through a PYD camp in Hasakah province,...