Turkish police in the southern province of Mersin said they had detained a pro-Kurdish mayor on Friday, along with five other managers of the municipality, as part of a terrorism-related investigation ...

A move by the Sudanese government to introduce new banknotes and compel people to open bank accounts has boosted bank deposits and with them the army's war effort, finance minister Jibril Ibrahim said ...

Two weeks after becoming South Korea's second acting president, Choi Sang-mok faces not only the task of steering a shaky ...

Japan's Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp (NTT) has appointed Bank of America and UBS to work on a $1 billion data centre real estate investment trust listing in Singapore, two sources with knowledge ...

The Chinese foreign ministry said on Friday that it had maintained close communication with the World Health Organization on respiratory diseases, when asked about cases of the human metapneumovirus ...

A supermarket in the Russian-held city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine has been struck by the Ukrainian army wounding at least two people, Russia's TASS state news agency said on Friday.

China emitted 13 billion metric tons of climate-warming greenhouse gases in 2021, up 4.3% from a year earlier, it said in its ...

The South African rand was weaker early on Friday as markets awaited U.S. non-farm payrolls data that could provide clues on ...

Sainsbury's , Britain's second biggest supermarket group, on Friday reported a 2.8% rise in underlying sales for the key ...

One year after earning a record salary through arbitration, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and the Toronto Blue Jays avoided another ...

The Houston Astros came to terms on one-year contracts for all eight of their arbitration-eligible players on Thursday, ...

Iga Swiatek said on Friday she considered revealing her positive doping test to the public as she awaited the outcome of her ...