The United States reduced Iraq's exemption for importing electricity from Iran to 45 days — down from the usual three to four months — and delayed routine dollar transfers to Iraq's central
Tunisia edged toward early parliamentary elections after the Islamist party Ennahdha and the Qalb Tounes party both rejected Prime Minister-designate Elyes Fakhfakh's proposed cabinet. President Kais Saied faces a constitutional deadline of
The International Committee of the Red Cross suspended operations and team movements in Kaga-Bandoro in the Central African Republic's north-central Nana-Grebizi region after a series of security incidents endangering its staff. The
Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune appointed former National Popular Assembly president Karim Younes as Mediator of the Republic, the presidency announced. Younes had previously coordinated the National Authority for Dialogue and Mediation that
Airbus posted a net loss of €1.36 billion for 2019 after paying €3.6 billion in corruption settlement fines to French, British, and American authorities, alongside a €1.2 billion charge on the troubled
The United Arab Emirates gave the green light for fuel loading at its Barakah nuclear power plant, the first in the Arab world, built by a Korean-led consortium at a cost of
Three men armed with knives robbed a delivery truck driver of toilet paper worth more than HK$1,000 in Hong Kong's Mong Kok district as coronavirus-driven panic buying emptied supermarket shelves across the
Japan's GDP fell 1.6% in the fourth quarter of 2019, its steepest quarterly decline since 2014, after an increase in the consumption tax from 8% to 10% suppressed household spending. The contraction
European Council President Charles Michel hosted the leaders of six Western Balkan EU accession candidates in Brussels for what he called a 'frank, intense, and open discussion,' ahead of May's Zagreb summit.
Four federal prosecutors withdrew from the Roger Stone case after the United States Department of Justice intervened to reduce recommended prison time from seven to nine years to roughly three to four
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