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Qatar's finance minister says the blockade of countries isolating Qatar are bullying and disrespectful.
Talks to revise NAFTA will go into next year amid disagreements over how best to change the deal, top officials said.
President Trump risks alienating moderates in Iran with the power to help effect peaceful change, one analyst says.
A Maltese investigative journalist who exposed the island nation's links to offshore tax havens through the leaked Panama Papers was killed Monday when a bomb exploded in her car, the prime minister said.
Airbus SE said on Monday it would acquire a majority stake in Bombardier Inc's C-Series passenger jet program.
The EU on Monday reaffirmed its support for a 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers and urged U.S. lawmakers not to reimpose sanctions on Tehran.
Trump received swift blowback in April for taking a call with Duterte, whose government is accused of extrajudicial killings.
Germany's Social Democrats beat Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats in Lower Saxony on Sunday.
In Mogadishu, Somalia, 276 people have died from a powerful bomb blast on Saturday.
The U.S. will stay in an international nuclear deal with Iran, Nikki Haley says.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says the United States cannot unilaterally revoke the country's international nuclear deal.
The sanctions come as President Donald Trump announced a broader strategy to put pressure on Iran.
A Chinese space station has begun its out-of-control descent towards Earth's surface and is expected to crash-land within a few months.
Oil prices are poised to crash to just $10 per barrel over the next six to eight years as alternative energy fuels continue to attract more and more investors, Chris Watling, chief executive of Longview Economics, told CNBC on Friday.
South Africa's rand climbed to its firmest level in two weeks, driven higher by a court ruling that upheld corruption charges against Zuma.
Oil prices are unlikely to reach $60 per barrel anytime soon as hawkish forecasters continue to ignore the "elephant in the room", a senior economist told CNBC Wednesday.
A family-owned pub in the north east of England has been named the "best restaurant in the world" based on an international poll of customer reviews.
China could be poised to overtake the U.S. as the world's primary donor of foreign aid to most of the developed world, a multinational group of researchers reported Wednesday.
Security videos showing the estranged half-brother of North Korea's leader being attacked at a Malaysian airport and the two suspects hurrying away afterward were presented at their murder trial on Wednesday.
Equifax's massive cyber attack it disclosed in September compromised the sensitive personal details of nearly 700,000 consumers in the UK.
World Economy
President Xi Jinping said China supports an open world economy and pledged further opening of its market.
Boeing said that the announced deal has no effect on the pending U.S. Department of Commerce proceedings.
Analysts said its obvious what India's troubled banks most need — but it's unlikely the government will give it.
World Markets
European markets were slightly higher on Wednesday morning, as investors monitored the latest batch of earnings and economic data releases.
Asian shares closed mixed as investors looked to China's Party Congress for signs on future policy direction.
The dollar held an upper hand against other major currencies on Wednesday.
