Throughout its intervening ten years since it was launched in 2013, the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) – a multi-decade, continent-spanning policy and in
In a significant step toward resolving the protracted conflict in Yemen, the country's warring factions successfully completed a massive exchange of prisoners on Sunday
The Biden administration is accusing Russia of moving to provide advanced military assistance to Iran, including air defense systems, helicopters and fighter jets, part
The highest court in the land has a lot to say about tech this week. The Supreme Court weighed in on Google’s long legal battle with Oracle on Monday, overturning a prior victory for the latter
The United States called Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates “major security partners" early Saturday, a previously unheard of designation for the two countries home t
Customs officers check imported solid waste in Ningbo City, east China's Zhejiang Province, August 13, 2019. /CFPElchole Cai, 30, resident of a small town in east China
On Thursday, Lebanon's President Michel Aoun announced that he had appointed former Prime Minister Saad Hariri as prime minister-designate. The move brings the veteran politician back on stage at
An interim government in eastern Libya resigned on Sunday amid street protests that erupted across the divided country over dire living conditions, officials said.Prime
Ford Motor Co. is planning to eliminate 1,000 white-collar jobs in the United States by the end of the year, another step in its years-long 11-billion-dollar restructur
President Donald Trump took sweeping digs at “crazy left radical Democrats” on a trip Wednesday to the fracking fields of West Texas, launching unsubstantiated claims t
The sudden death of Seoul’s mayor, reportedly implicated in a sexual harassment complaint, has prompted an outpouring of public sympathy even as it has raised questions
While the years-long trade war has yet to recede, the coronavirus pandemic is further fueling the estrangement between China and the U.S. Over the past months, toxicity
The Supreme Court on Thursday delivered a blow to President Trump's immigration agenda, ruling the administration's attempt to dismantle an Obama-era program that prote
A 3D printed oil pump jack is seen in front of displayed stock graph and OPEC logo in this illustration picture, April 14, 2020. /Reuters OPEC, Russia and allies agreed on Saturday to extend r
Religious authorities moved to cancel or limit weekly prayer gatherings across the Middle East on Friday to help prevent the spread of the new coronavirus as they encou