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OPEC and its allies are likely to gradually boost oil output in the second half of the year to ease consumer anxiety as prices trade near $80 a barrel, said Saudi Energy Minister Khalid Al-Falih.

Europe needs to come up with a package of economic guarantees by June to prevent the crisis triggered by Donald Trump’s nuclear deal withdrawal from escalating further, according to a top Iranian

Protesters in Cape Town barricaded roads and torched several vehicles, the latest in a series of violent demonstrations by poor South African communities demanding access to state-funded housing and

Marjan Sarec, an ex-comedian who shot to popularity last year, said he wouldn’t join forces with ex-Prime Minister Janez Jansa, the only candidate he trails in polls before elections next month.

Spain's biggest opposition party, the Socialists, is ready to push for a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy after his former aides were convicted of running a multimillion-euro

The $7.5 billion price tag for a Chinese-built deep-sea port in the Myanmar town of Kyaukpyu was “crazy” and “absurd,” according to a key adviser to Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

U.K. consumer spending lost momentum in the first quarter and companies cut investment after severe weather swept the country.

Trump’s pick to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says he wants to give it the credibility of the SEC.

In some parts of America, the Department of Labor hasn’t updated its “prevailing wage” for taxpayer-funded work in decades.

Brazilians who saw their income erode and jobs disappear in the worst recession on record endured the government’s austerity program with surprising calm. Until this week, that is.

Nobody asked for it, few seem to want it and yet the Trump administration is considering imposing tariffs on imported cars and trucks, threatening not just a shake-up of the global auto industry but

Toronto (AP) -- Police hunted for two people Friday after an explosion caused by a homemade bomb ripped through an Indian restaurant at a mall in the Toronto suburb of Mississauga, wounding 15 people.

A unit of the South African Police Service said it’s started an investigation into an alleged cryptocurrency investment fraud that has affected more than 28,000 people and led to losses of more than 1

European Union institutions have given millions of euros annually to non-governmental organizations with ties to Palestinian terrorist groups and that support boycotts of Israel, according to Gilad

To Charles Billardey, it was no walk in the park.

A paralyzing truckers’ strike in Brazil showed few signs of easing on Friday, prompting the president to deploy national security forces amid warnings of a calamity in one of the world’s largest

Spain’s biggest opposition party, the Socialists registered a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy after his former aides were convicted of running a multimillion-euro corruption

Ireland appears poised to liberalize some of Western Europe’s most restrictive abortion laws in a vote that may represent the nation’s most decisive break yet with its Roman Catholic roots.

From tech giant Facebook Inc. to libraries and schools, organizations are now subject to the world’s most far-reaching data privacy regulation in a crackdown aimed at protecting people from losing

Elliott Broidy is a top fundraiser to President Donald Trump.