On Friday, the European Commission stated that it would penalise the Alphabet, Facebook and Twitter social media companies in case of not amending the terms of service over privacy and content for the EU users.
The Japanese government reported on Friday that it would not support embattled conglomerate Toshiba.
On Friday, Eurostat reported that the Euro zone posted a 0.6B euro deficit in January, the first trade gap recorded since 2014.
An Apache helicopter hit the boat off the Yemeni coast with the 31 Somali refugees travelling to Sudan late on Thursday, leaving all of the people dead.
The Israeli military stated that an aircraft that breached the Syrian air space and was shot down by the state army did not belong to Israel as none of its jets were damaged in the overnight mission.
The US Army and a foreign customer are eager to buy the AH-64E Apache helicopters on the back of the $3.4B deal between Boeing and the US government.
On Friday, the Japanese officials conducted the first missile evacuation drill of civilians followed by the sirens and loudspeaker warnings amid the North Korean ballistic missiles threat.
On Friday, the US President Donald Trump and the Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel will hold their first face-to-face meeting at the White House to discuss the countries' future cooperation.
The Republican State Senator of Oklahoma Ralph Shortey was charged with a child prostitution and other two felony crimes as the police found him with a teenager and drugs in a motel.
One soldier died and several others were wounded in a car blast that detonated close to the military base in Khost, damaging a number of shops, schools and homes.
On Friday, the court of South Korea announced it was eager to pass the Samsung Group bribery case of the CEO Jay Y. Lee to another judge.
On Friday, an opinion poll released by Odoxa showed that 75% of French voters would like to remove Francois Fillon from the presidential race.
The former chairman of the China National Nuclear Corporation said on Friday that China should accelerate the pace of nuclear power development to meet the 2020-year target.
Peabody Energy, the world's largest private coal mining company, said it would probably exit the Chapter 11 bankruptcy by the beginning of April after the US judge confirmed a $5B debt reduction.
On Friday, China's banking regulator loosened some certification requirements for foreign and joint venture lenders.
The Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that the German Chancellor Angela Merkel would travel to Moscow on May 2 for high-level talks.
On Thursday, the White House proposed to cut the Environmental Protection Agency's budget by 31% amid Trump's promises to help oil drillers, coal miners and farmers.
At least 42 people were killed and dozens more wounded on Thursday in air raids on a village mosque in northern Syria.
More than 250 skulls had been found over the last several months in what appeared to be a drug cartel mass burial ground on the outskirts of the city of Veracruz.
The Fed's return to interest rate hikes could help to Europe and Japan and signal about the end of a long series of monetary easing programme across Asia.
A Senate committee reported that were "no indications" that Trump Tower was under surveillance by the US government before or after the election.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Thursday told the Dutch prime minister he had lost Turkey as a friend, despite Mark Rutte's victory over the far-right in parliamentary elections.
McDonald's confirmed on Thursday that its Twitter account had been "compromised" after a tweet from the company was posted that criticized President Donald Trump.
Greek Public Order Minister revealed that the envelope containing explosives, which went off in the IMF office in Paris today, has a Greek return address.