The US Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his team, who investigate whether the US President Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Russia, asked the White House to provide the former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn's documents.
The Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin heads to Iran to lead the Russian delegation to the inauguration ceremony of Iran's newly-elected President Hassan Rouhani.
Toyota Motor Corp announced plans to build pickup trucks and perhaps SUVs at a new plant in Mexico, a decision that followed threats by the US President Donald Trump to penalise the car producer if it built small cars south of the border.
An internal investigation of the South Korean spy agency revealed that from 2009 until 2012 the NSI conducted a psychological warfare in the 2012 presidential race to ensure Park Geun-hye victory.
China's banking sector is predicted to grow steadily during the 2017-2018 period with a lower non-performing asset ratio.
Yao Zhongmin, the former head of the supervisory board at China Development Bank, has been jailed for 14 years for accepting bribes.
India and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank agreed on a $329M loan to build roads in the western state of Gujarat.
Ankara, Doha and Tehran discuss ways to deliver goods from Turkey to Qatar after the blockade, the Turkish Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekci says.
China's stock regulator approved 7 initial public offerings which aim to raise a total of $416.22M.
The incumbent President of Rwanda Paul Kagame gets a majority of votes in the presidential election, preliminary results show.
Alipay, China's leading payment platform, starts partnership with VTB Group, Russian provider of financial services.
Xinhua News Agency reported that the US President Donald Trump had left the White House for his vacation in Bedminster, New Jersey, on Friday evening.
The President of Iraq Fouad Masoum landed in Tehran on Friday to attend the inauguration ceremony of the Iranian President Hassan Rouhani scheduled on Saturday.
Having served as the President of Rwanda for 17 years, Paul Kagame is set to claim another crushing victory in the presidential election, winning over 90% of votes.
In an official statement released on Friday, the MP for North Devon Peter Heaton-Jones expressed his concerns over the arrest of a British cyber expert in the US on hacking charges.
On Saturday, the UN Security Council will vote on a US-proposed resolution to significantly trim North Korea's annual export revenue over its ICBM tests.
According to the USGS, a 5.8-magnitude quake struck the southern part of Mindanao island, the Philippines, on Saturday morning, with the epicentre just 34 km away from a populous city.
On Friday, crude oil prices rose to $52.42 a barrel amid a release of strong US employment data.
The Shi'ite group's leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said that Hezbollah will join a fight against the Islamic State on the Syrian-Lebanese border.
According to the Somali police officer Mohamed Hussein, a car bomb explosion that occurred in the centre of Mogadishu on Friday claimed life of at least one woman.
Herbert Diess, the CEO of Volkswagen, named Tesla, as company's main competitor in the new world, and noted that it has certain abilities that the VW currently lacks.
The Philippine Foregin Minister Alan Peter Cayetano said on Friday that his country will try to conclude an agreement with Asian countries on ways to cooperate with North Korea amid increasing pressure from the US to sanction Pyongyang over its ICBM tests.
On Friday, Venezuela inaugurated a recently elected legislative body that is supposed to modify the constitution and enhance the powers of the ruling Socialist Party.
The EU have decided on Friday to broaden sanctions against Russia adding three more companies and three people to its Russia sanctions blacklist over illegal annexation of Crimea.