أدلى مبعوث باكستان إلى الولايات المتحدة أسد مجيد خان بتصريح مفاده أن التوترات المستمرة في كشمير يمكن أن تؤثر على عملية السلام في أفغانستان.
عارضت أفغانستان بشدة تصريح مبعوث باكستان إلى الولايات المتحدة، أسد مجيد خان، مفاده أن التوترات المستمرة في (...)
Oil rose on Monday following a weekend attack on a Saudi oil facility by Yemeni separatists and as traders looked for any signs that Sino-U.S. trade tensions could ease.
But price gains were capped by an unusually downbeat OPEC report that stoked (...)
Asian markets rose on Monday as U.S. Treasury yields bounced higher after plunging last week.
Shares in mainland China led gains in the region as they surged on the day, with the Shanghai composite adding 2.1 percent to 2,883.10 and the Shenzhen (...)
Egypt has condemned a suicide bombing that targeted a wedding party in Kabul and left scores dead and injured on Saturday.
In a Sunday statement, the foreign ministry said Egypt stands by the Afghan government and people in its war against (...)
U.S. President Donald Trump and top White House officials dismissed concerns that economic growth may be faltering, saying on Sunday they saw little risk of recession despite a volatile week on global bond markets, and insisting their trade war with (...)
The Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility on Sunday for a suicide bombing at an Afghan wedding killing 63 people, and injuring more than 180.
The attack took place in a minority Shi'ite neighborhood. IS said that in a statement that the bomber (...)
A series of bombings struck restaurants and public squares on Monday in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, wounding at least 66 people, officials said, as the country marked the 100th anniversary of its independence.
No group claimed (...)
Sudan's Transitional Military Council (TMC) said on Monday the country's pro-democracy movement has asked for a delay on the announcement of a joint ruling body because of last-minute, internal disputes over the opposition appointees.
The new, (...)
Democratic Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan plan to host a news conference on Monday to discuss travel restrictions to Israel and Palestine, after they were denied entry into Israel last week.
At the urging of President (...)
The Trump administration is extending a ban on the use of U.S. passports for travel to North Korea for another year.
A State Department notice released Monday says the ban will remain in place until Aug. 31, 2020, unless revoked by Secretary of (...)
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence urged China on Monday to respect the integrity of Hong Kong's laws and repeated President Donald Trump's warning that it will be harder for the United States to make a trade deal with Beijing if there was violence in (...)
The U.S. military has conducted a flight test of a type of missile banned for more than 30 years by a treaty that both the United States and Russia abandoned this month, the Pentagon said.
The test off the coast of California on Sunday marked the (...)
A suicide bomber killed 63 people and wounded 182 in an attack on a packed wedding reception in the Afghan capital, the interior ministry said on Sunday, as violence shows no sign of easing despite hopes for a deal on a U.S. troop withdrawal.
The (...)
Egypt's iron and steel exports declined by 30 percent during the first half of 2019 as exporters haven't received their dues from the export subsidies programme estimated at one billion Egyptian pounds ($60.3 million), Samir Naaman, official at the (...)
United Kingdom will face shortages of fuel, food and medicine if it leaves the European Union without a deal, jamming ports and requiring a hard border in Ireland, according to official government documents leaked to the Sunday Times show.
The Times (...)
Russia will not deploy new missiles as long as the United States shows similar restraint in Europe and Asia, Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu said on Sunday, after Washington's withdrawal from a Soviet-era arms pact.
The United States formally (...)
The Islamic State militant group claimed responsibility on Sunday for a suicide blast at a wedding reception in Afghanistan that killed 63 people, underling the dangers the country faces even if the Taliban agree a pact with the United States.
The (...)
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Roche Holding AG's personalized cancer treatment, which targets tumors with specific genetic mutations, irrespective of where in the body the disease started, the agency said .
The treatment, Rozlytrek, (...)
The U.S. Commerce Department is expected to extend a reprieve given to Huawei Technologies that allows the Chinese firm to buy supplies from U.S. companies so that it can service existing customers.
The "temporary general license" will be extended (...)
European markets closed sharply higher Friday, as investors tentatively returned to riskier assets after a turbulent week.
The pan-European Stoxx 600 index closed provisionally up almost 1.3 percent, with all sectors and major bourses in positive (...)
Dollar prices rallied on Friday on bullish economic data and hit a two-week high against the euro as expectations of central bank stimulus weighed on the single currency.
U.S. homebuilding fell for a third straight month in July amid a steep decline (...)
The US justice department has issued a warrant to seize a detained Iranian oil tanker, a day after a judge in Gibraltar ordered it to be released.
The Grace 1 supertanker, which is carrying 2.1m barrels of oil, was detained on 4 July on suspicion of (...)
China's central bank unveiled a key interest rate reform on Saturday to help steer borrowing costs lower for companies and support a slowing economy that has been hurt by a trade war with the United States.
The People's Bank of China (PBOC) said it (...)
Construction on new houses in the United States dropped 4 percent in July to the second-lowest rate this year, but builders applied for more permits in a positive sign for the country's housing market.
Housing starts fell to an annual rate of 1.191 (...)
The U.S. Commerce Department is expected to extend a reprieve given to Huawei Technologies that permits the Chinese firm to buy supplies from U.S. companies so that it can service existing customers, two sources familiar with the situation said.
The (...)
