Cathay CEO resigns amid Hong Kong protest blowback as more rallies planned
The boss of Hong Kong carrier Cathay Pacific Airways quit on Friday, the highest-profile corporate casualty of unrest roiling the former British colony, after Beijing...
Poland may join U.S.-led mission in Strait of Hormuz
Poland is considering supporting a U.S.-led mission to protect the Strait of Hormuz, but has not made a formal decision yet....
Russian pilot says he’s no hero despite praise for crash-landing
A Russian pilot who landed a passenger plane in a cornfield after hitting a flock of birds said he was no hero despite the Kremlin...
PM Hariri: Saudi, UAE want to invest in Lebanon
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are looking to invest in infrastructure projects in Lebanon after ties have recovered, Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri...
German finance minister Scholz to run for SPD leadership
German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz will run for the leadership of the Social Democrats, a spokeswoman said on Friday, joining a race to revive the...
Israel to let U.S. Rep Tlaib visit family in West Bank
Israel will allow U.S. lawmaker Rashida Tlaib to visit her family in the occupied West Bank on humanitarian grounds, the interior ministry said on Friday....
India says committed to ‘no first use’ of nuclear weapons for now
India has stuck to its commitment of ‘no first use’ of nuclear weapons but future policy will depend on the situation, the defense minister said...
Futures climb on stimulus hopes, Nvidia results
U.S. stock index futures rose 1% on Friday, as hopes of more stimulus from central banks helped lift some gloom in what has been a...
LSE’s FTSE stock market suffers longest outage in years
A technical glitch delayed the start of trading on Friday on the UK blue chip FTSE 100 and midcap stock indexes for almost two hours...
Schools, telephone lines to be opened in Kashmir after lockdown
Authorities will begin restoring some telephone lines in Indian Kashmir from Friday night, including in the main city of Srinagar where afternoon prayers went peacefully...