The South Korean government has said it will ban about 20,000 BMWs from its streets after a spate of the vehicles catching fire. The ban will apply to cars which have not yet been sent to BMW…
Tesla Inc’s board named a special committee of three directors on Tuesday to decide what to do about Chief Executive Elon Musk’s potential offer to take the electric carmaker private, although…
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The Taliban overran a base in northern Afghanistan, killing 17 soldiers, as Afghan forces battled the insurgents for the fifth straight day in the eastern provincial capital of Ghazni on Tuesday…
Pakistan’s prime minister-in-waiting Imran Khan will visit Iran and Saudi Arabia after taking oath as the prime minister of Pakistan expected later this month.
Khan has been…
Saudi Arabia has freed three Iranian fishermen detained by the kingdom’s coastguard last year, IRNA quoted an Iranian official as saying on Tuesday, following negotiations between the two…
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will go to the Majlis on August 21 to shed light on the convention signed this week by Iran and four ex-Soviet nations on the legal status of the Caspian…
Iran and Iraq signed a border control agreement in Tehran on Tuesday, in a bid to enhance security and fight terrorism.
"We believe that cooperation in border areas will lead to…
Former ambassador to Damascus highlighted the Syrian government’s recent victories against foreign-backed terrorists and said under the “new conditions” even other warring parties acknowledge…
Assyrian churches in Tehran have issued a statement condemning the claims of US officials that religious minorities face discrimination in Iran.
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif congratulated the Lebanese people and government as well as the Hezbollah Resistance Movement on the anniversary of the country’s victory in the 2006 war…
Ankara has never supported the anti-Russian sanctions and will never support those against Iran, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Monday. "Turkey has never supported any…
Cuba on Monday began a rare public discussion on issues ranging from one-party rule and socialism to inequality, private property and restructuring of the country’s government to overhaul its…
His supporters are descending on Brazil’s capital by the busloads, his lawyers wage legal battles and his party stages hunger strikes, sit-ins and news conferences in defense of his right to bid…
A car crashed into barriers outside Britain's Houses of Parliament in a suspected terror attack on Tuesday, injuring a "number of pedestrians" close to where five people were killed last year.…
An Iraqi official has been injured in a bomb blast, west of Baghdad, a security source said on Thursday. Speaking to Baghdad Today, the source said, “A bomb, placed on the side of the road, went…
Forty children were among 51 people killed in a recent Saudi-led coalition airstrike on a bus in northern Yemen, the Red Cross said in a new toll on Tuesday.
Fifty-six children were also…
US President Donald Trump signed into law on Monday the $717 billion annual defense policy bill, the earliest in the year the bill has become law in more than four decades.
A motorway bridge collapsed on Tuesday over the northern Italian port city of Genoa, killing dozens of people according to the local ambulance service, in what the transport minister said was…
Lebanon’s economy has been in a precarious position in recent years. Labeled as the country with the 3rd highest debt-to-GDP deficit in the world early in the year by the International Monetary…
Italian economist Claudio Borio is considered an authority in the areas of monetary policy, banking, finance and financial stability.
Borio heads the Monetary and Economic Department at…
The outlook for Hong Kong’s economy is darkening as rising interest rates are set to slam the city’s property market, while the escalating China-US trade war also poses a danger.
Growth…
Sweden’s economic prospects have dimmed in recent months and the country will likely be surpassed by Norway as the fastest-growing Scandinavian economy in 2019, a Reuters poll found on Tuesday…
The Finnish economy remained robust in the spring and early summer, but there was a hint of slowing in June in data released Tuesday by Statistics Finland. The figures indicate that Finland’s…
Bitcoin touched below $6,000 and dozens of smaller digital tokens retreated as this month’s sell-off in cryptocurrencies showed few signs of letting up.
