Mauritania held a controversial referendum to make changes to the constitution due to the opposition's claims that votes were a ploy to strengthen presidential power.
Britain needs to make clear to the EU that it is ready to go alone if it fails to reach a satisfactory agreement in Brexit talks, the former Bank of England Governor Mervyn King said.
Germany's top police official said that country needed tougher laws to combat cyber crime on the Darknet, the illegal internet, and other organised criminal structures.
Vietnam called on other Southeast Asian countries to take a stronger stand against China's expansionism in the South China Sea during the annual gathering of foreign ministers of ASEAN.
The Iranian newly-elected President Hassan Rouhani, set to be inaugurated in front of foreign officials, already faced criticism for bowing to conservatives in forming a new government.
Tesla lowered the base price for the Model X SUV to $79,500 amid improved margins, which came as the car producer increased production of its new lower-priced Model 3.
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.