The Russian Foreign Ministry expressed disappointment over the US administration's decision to impose sanctions against 8 Russian companies, including those linked to aircraft construction.
Russia and OPEC discussed a potential extension of the agreement on reducing oil output. The country plans by late April to cut 300K barrels a year versus October 2016.
On Sunday, Bulgarian citizens began voting in a snap parliamentary election with the center-right populist GERB party challanged by the pro-Russian Socialist party.
Carrie Lam, who was elected as Hong Kong's first female leader on Sunday, said that her first task would be to weaken social tensions.
On Sunday, a man was killed and at least 14 people were injured in a clash between Hindu and Muslim school students in the Indian state of Gujarat.
Egypt's Finance Minister reported on Sunday that the country attracted $3.1B in a form of foreign investments in domestic debt securities between November and mid-March.
An al Qaeda fighter who was a „terrorist leader" responsible for several deadly attacks in Afghanistan, was killed in a US air-strike on Sunday, the Pentagon reported.
Following accusations that China has been meddling in Hong Kong's election in favour of Carrie Lam, the former Government official was elected president on Sunday.
An Australian academic was denied a flight home from China, allegedly for having ties to intellectuals of liberal background in the country after facing continuous interrogation on the matter.
A banking conference served as a platform for politicians and bankers to criticize populism in Mexico, aiming at the current front-runner of the 2018 presidential election.
An immigrant from Vietnam died in a detention centre in Japan, six people reported on Saturday, displaying the flaws of the Japanese detention system.
The vote for a new leader in Hong Kong began in an electoral college on Sunday, while China was accused of interfering in the process to shift tables in favour of a less-populist candidate.
On Saturday, Saad Eddine El Othmani, the Prime Minister of Morocco and a member of the Islamist Justice and Development Party, stated that he is poised to begin forming a coalition government with five other parties.
On Saturday, thousands of UK citizens marched through London protesting against leaving the EU, just four days ahead of the formal beginning of the process.
Following a crash by a driver-less car in Arizona, Uber withdrew the program for the technology, local police and the company said on Saturday.
In a trip to Milan on Saturday, Pope Francis visited several families, including one of Muslim belonging along with other working-class households.
Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi was sentenced to death along with six other officials by a court of the Houti movement which he had opposed in a two-year-long civil war.
US forces confirmed on Saturday that the air strike targeting IS in Mosul was led by them and locals claimed it left dozens of civilians dead.
Two bomb attacks in Bangladesh were lethal for three people and left dozens injured after alleged commando raids took place near a militant base on Saturday.
Turkish Foreign Ministry officials claimed on Saturday that protests in Switzerland are related to terrorism and advocating the assassination of President Tayyip Erdogan, and called for an investigation in the matter.
The Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told media on Saturday that the country might hold another vote on the continuation of talks about joining the EU after potentially gaining more powers on April 16.
Saturday will mark the 10th annual Earth Hour at 20:30 when people in 172 different countries will turn of lights as a call to raise awareness of climate issues all over the globe.
Six demonstrations served the needs of a variety of protesters, as nationalists, federalists, unionists, populists and anarchists went in the streets of Rome amid EU 60th anniversary.
The main driver of the decision whether to extend participation in the oil output cut agreement will be the market, Jabar Ali al-Luaibi, the Iraqi Oil Minister, claimed on Saturday.