South Africa taxi drivers staged a protest against Uber by blocking the roads to the Johannesburg airport on Friday as they complain about the obligation to pay licensing fees unlike Uber drivers.
On Friday, the Syrian authorities required the United Nations to withdraw Turkey's troops from the Northern part of Syria as their actions resulted in deaths and injuries.
The first phone call between the US President Donald Trump and the President of Palestine Mahmoud Abbas since Trump took his office to be held lately this Friday at 17:15 GMT.
The US national survey showed that 53% of Americans disagree with the laws that require transgender people to visit bathrooms according to the person's sex at birth, rather than by their own preference.
On Friday, the German automaker Volkswagen announced the company was eager to establish cooperation with the India's Tata Motors to produce vehicles and its components for the Indian market.
On Friday, five people were killed after a helicopter carrying top business executives crashed in a TV tower in Istanbul, local media reported.
On Friday, the European Union and the ASEAN said they would resume talks on the proposed Free Trade Agreement.
On Friday, the Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov stated that the Russian President Vladimir Putin had a meeting with the new head of Exxon Mobil Darren Woods the day before.
The United Nations reported that serious human rights abuse was documented in the Southeastern Turkey as the government security operations caused death of 2K people and neighborhood destructions in 18 months.
The police of Malaysia made an official statement that the man killed at Kuala Lumpur airport was the North Korean leader's half-brother Kim Jong Nam.
The Parliament of Germany agreed to draft a bill over setting up surveillance cameras in such places as stadiums and shopping malls amid the growing number of terrorist attacks spread across Germany lately.
On Friday, the military of Turkey reported that 71 Kurdish insurgents and allied PKK were killed over the last week in Syria.
On Friday, Two Berlin airports Schoenefeld and Tegel had to cancel almost all the leading carriers' flights such as Air Berlin, Ryanair, Lufthansa, etc., as a ground staff staged a protest over pay rise.
On Thursday, the EPA head Scott Pruitt stated that he was unconvinced whether carbon dioxide was the main trigger for global warming, calling the Congress to check the level of the CO2 harmfulness for the environment.
At least two people are reported to be dead amid clashes with police as the South Korean President Park Geun-hye dismissal staged an outcry by her supporters.
Chinese airlines cut some flight routes to South Korea over Seoul's decision to deploy a US missile-defence system despite China's strong protests.
On Friday, the Constitutional Court of South Korea removed the President Park Geun-hye from office amid a graft scandal involving big businesses that gripped the country for months.
The Head of The People's Bank of China Zhou Xiaochuan said on Friday that a neutral monetary policy stance would help China's supply-side structural reforms.
The US Dollar hit its six-week high against the Japanese Yen during the Asian session on Friday as investors awaited data on private payrolls, expected to result in the first rate hike this year.
On Thursday, the UK Prime Minister Theresa May stated that both the EU and the UK are poised to begin Brexit negotiations, which according to May will begin before April.
Dan Coats, an ex-Republican Senator, was approved to become the new director of the US National Intelligence, its committee voted on Thursday evening. However, he still requires the US Senate's confirmation.
The CEO of AIG will step down due to the poor performance of the company that left shareholders and the board of the insurer dissatisfied, the company reported on Thursday.
Julian Assange claimed on Thursday that Wikileaks would provide the necessary tools for CIA hacking that they have in possession to technology companies.
Donald Trump reassured that some financial regulations would be lifted in order to provide capital to small businesses in a meeting with bankers on Thursday.