NEW YORK: World leaders on Tuesday warned US President Donald Trump he risked inflaming the Muslim world and jeopardising peace efforts if he recognised...
SINGAPORE/LONDON: A global cyber attack leveraging hacking tools believed to have been developed by the US National Security Agency has infected tens of thousands of...
WASHINGTON: Worldwide public and private debt is at an all-time high, posing a substantial impediment to getting global economic growth back to normal, the...
WASHNGTON: Public sector corruption siphons $1.5 trillion to $2 trillion annually from the global economy in bribes and costs far more in stunted economic growth, lost tax revenues and sustained poverty, the International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday.
TOKYO: Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela called on Tuesday for global efforts to tackle the "Panama Papers" scandal, insisting it is not a problem just for his country but the international financial system as a whole.
NEW YORK: The New York Times announced plans Thursday to invest $50 million into efforts to boost digital readership and revenue outside the United States.
NEW DELHI: The number of wild tigers across the globe has increased for the first time in a century thanks to improved conservation efforts, wildlife groups said on Monday.
SEOUL: North Korea hailed an "epochal event" but its latest long-range rocket launch Sunday prompted international anger and plans for talks on a US missile defence system for the peninsula.
BERLIN: Global economic growth will be disappointing next year and the outlook for the medium-term has also deteriorated, the head of the International Monetary Fund said in a guest article for German newspaper Handelsblatt published on Wednesday.
ISLAMABAD: Donald Trump dismissed criticism at home and abroad Tuesday over his "grossly irresponsible" call to bar Muslims from entering the United States, as the White House branded him unfit to lead.
LONDON: Wall Street was expected to start the week higher on Monday with a rebound in European stocks, the dollar and oil markets pointing to a tentative recovery in confidence following another difficult day in Asia.
BEIJING: Concerns over a possible U.S. rate rise by the Federal Reserve may have sparked a global stock market rout rather than the devaluation of China's yuan currency, a senior Chinese central bank official told Reuters on Thursday.
LONDON: The global fight to eradicate polio has set its sights on Afghanistan and Pakistan, the World Health Organisation said on Tuesday as Africa marked a year without any new cases of the crippling disease for the first time.
BEIJING: With its huge new infrastructure bank and its ambitions for a globalized renminbi currency, China is leading the upending of a 70-year-old global order built on American economic power.
LAUSANNE Switzerland: Iran and world powers agreed Thursday on the framework of a potentially historic deal aimed at curbing Tehran's nuclear drive after marathon talks in Switzerland.
WASHINGTON: The United States Thursday sought to galvanize global action against violent extremist groups, amid warnings the world was confronted with "a new war against a new enemy."
WASHINGTON: The US Department of State has designated top Taliban commander Maulana Fazlullah, also known as Mullah Fazlullah, as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist, ARY News reported Tuesday.
UNITED NATIONS: A global arms trade treaty that aims to regulate the $85 billion industry and keep weapons out of the hands of human rights abusers and criminals will enter into force on Wednesday, though the U.S. Senate has not yet ratified it.