Asian shares were mostly higher on Friday, as investors digested recent developments on U.S.-China trade.
The Nikkei 225 in Japan rose 0.7 percent to close at 23,303.32 while the Topix index added 0.73 percent to finish its trading day at 1,696.67. (...)
President Donald Trump launched a Twitter attack on a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine on Friday while she was testifying to an impeachment hearing in Congress, in an extraordinary moment that Democrats said amounted to witness intimidation.
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Turkey bought S-400 missile defense systems from Russia to use them, not put them aside, the head of the Turkish Defense Industry Directorate said on Saturday, days after talks between President Tayyip Erdogan and U.S. President Donald Trump.
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The box of white tissues stood by, two seats to Maria Yovanovitch's right, as she told the world about being "shocked, appalled, devastated'' that the president had badmouthed her after firing her as ambassador to Ukraine. But Yovanovitch stayed a (...)
Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia agreed on Saturday to continue the technical consultations and discussions on all contentious issues over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) during the second meeting, scheduled to be held in Cairo on (2-3) (...)
Bolivia's Evo Morales called for the United Nations, and possibly Pope Francis, to mediate in the Andean nation's political crisis following his ouster as president in what he called a coup d'etat that forced him into exile in Mexico.
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U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday pushed Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan to walk away from the purchase of a Russian missile defense system, calling it a "very serious challenge" to bilateral ties, even though he described a meeting between (...)
Bolivian security forces clashed on the streets of La Paz with supporters of unseated president Evo Morales on Wednesday, firing tear gas to clear crowds who hurled rocks and set fires in a test to Bolivia's new interim leader.
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Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry has asserted the anti-Daesh international coalition needs to continue exerting efforts to achieve its targets, necessitating the confrontation of any country that uses terrorism to achieve political goals.
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The head of Bolivia's Senate, Jeanine Anez, took office as interim president on Tuesday as former leader Evo Morales pledged to keep up his political fight from exile in Mexico after resigning in what he has said was a coup.
Anez, 52, assumed (...)
Hong Kong markets declined by Wednesday afternoon as a recent escalation in violence amid ongoing protests weighed on investor sentiment.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng index led losses in the region as it fell 1.76 percent with shares of life insurer AIA (...)
The chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee said on Tuesday he wanted the Senate to pass legislation to support pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong, as violence rose in the Chinese-ruled city rocked by months of unrest.
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The United States has no intention to end its alliance with Syrian Kurdish SDF militia, a senior administration official said on Tuesday, effectively pushing back on Ankara's demand that Washington stop supporting the fighters it sees as (...)
President Donald Trump renewed his trade attack on China, calling the nation "cheaters" though he blamed the situation on past U.S. leaders.
Trump spoke Tuesday at the Economic Club of New York.
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US President Donald Trump on Wednesday lauded his relationship with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan as the leaders started a meeting to overcome mounting differences between the two NATO allies ranging from Syria policy to Turkey's purchase of a (...)
Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry will head to Washington tonight to participate in the meeting of the Small Group of the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS (D-ISIS) at the level of foreign ministers.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is scheduled (...)
Oil fell for a second day on Tuesday, weighed down by uncertainty over whether U.S.-China trade talks are making much progress, while higher Saudi Arabian crude output reinforced concerns about oversupply.
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European shares traded mixed Monday amid a dampening of optimism over U.S.-China trade talks, after President Donald Trump denied that he had agreed to roll back tariffs on Chinese goods.
The pan-European Stoxx 600 index closed provisionally (...)
Sterling held gains in Asian trade on Tuesday, having hit a six-month high versus the euro and rising as much as 1 percent against the dollar overnight, as the risk of a hung parliament in UK elections eased slightly.
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“The EU will have to wait a long time before America has any clear strategy in Syria,” one baffled European diplomat told Al-Ahram Weekly this week, commenting on the apparent contradictions between US President Donald Trump and his defence (...)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had hoped to be out of the country on 10 November, the anniversary of the death of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. But his advisors warned him that this might not go over well with his supporters. So, he changed his (...)
When tribal chieftains met last week in a small town north of Baghdad to see what they should do with the protests that have gripped the country's south and capital city, one key question emerged: how will Iran respond if the uprising fails?
“They (...)
There has hardly been any positive news coming out of Iraq in nearly four decades and after the bloody eight-year war with Iran (1980-1988) that left millions of Iraqis killed, injured or missing in one of the bloodiest and longest wars of the 20th (...)
Dedicated to preserving Egypt's historical water quota from the River Nile, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi signed the Declaration of Principles on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on 23 March 2015, along with the then leaders of (...)
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday he would tell President Donald Trump that the United States has not fulfilled its agreement last month to remove the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia from a region along Turkey's border.
It is "impossible (...)
