Taro Aso, the Finance Minister of Japan, stated that he would welcome the US decision to consider rejoining the TPP.
On Thursday, Russia called for the UN Security Council to meet this Friday to discuss the situation in Syria.
Official sources reported on Thursday that Britain and the EU would start negotiations next week on their post-Brexit trade relationship.
Official sources reported on Thursday that Sri Lanka's President Maithripala Sirisena prorogued the Parliament until May 8, after several ministers tendered their resignations.
The VW Group reported on Thursday that it would overhaul management of all its sport car making units except Audi.
The US President Donald Trump reported on Thursday that the United States and North Korea were in "detailed" talks on the planned meeting.
On Thursday, cryptocurrencies posted strong gains, led by the Bitcoin, which jumped 11% to $7,705, the highest level since March 29.
On Thursday, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson urged Myanmar authorities to release two Reuters reporters, jailed and facing trial for possessing secret government documents.
On Thursday, the Defence Ministry of Spain stated that Spain is close to sign a $2.2B deal to sell five warships to Saudi Arabia, including building the naval construction center.
The general partner of Sequoia Capital Gili Raanan has raised $50M for his new venture capital firm called Cyberstarts, aimed to invest in early-stage cybersecurity startups.
On Thursday, Russia's Foreign Ministry spokesman Maria Zakharova said that the UK needs to prove that poisoned former Russian spy Sergey Skripal and his daughter are not being held hostage.
On Thursday, Russian state news agency Interfax claimed that Russian regulatory body Roskomnadzor asked Facebook to explain how it complies a law on data localisation.
On Thursday, Russian president Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan discussed developments in Syria in telephone talks and agreed to keep in close contact.
The US Defence Department has suspended delivery accept of the Lockheed Martin's F-35 jets due to a contractual dispute regarding production error fix, the Pentagon reported.
Volkswagen's brand chief Herbert Diess is set to become the head of the volume brand division that will include responsibility for Seat and Skoda, as well as for VW's commercial-car division.
The owner of British Airways, IAG, is considering to make a bid for Norwegian, which costs around $1.2B, sending the airlines shares up 37% on the news.
The number of applications for US unemployment benefits plunged to 233K in the week ending April 7, following the prior week's 242K reading, and missing analysts' estimates for a drop to 231K.
The conservative political opposition of Greece stated on Thursday it would not support the name deal to settle the decade-long row with Macedonia, unless it changed the constitution.
Volkswagen's supervisory board is set to hold a meeting on Thursday at 1400 GMT over its new leadership shake-up, as the brand CEO Herbert Diess is seen to take over the automotive group's reins of power.
The UK gambling and technology firm Playtech agreed to acquire a 70.6% stake of the Italian gaming company Snaitech for $359.2M in cash, Playtech said on Thursday.
Walmart is getting closer to buying a majority stake of 51% or more in India's e-commerce firm Flipkart for about $10-12B, sources familiar with the matter reported.
On Thursday various media outlets are cited the tensions over Syria as the reason for the decline of assets, which are traditionally considered risky.
The government of Japan is discussing a new government budget, which would be balanced around the middle of the 2020s.
SoftBank's CEO Masayoshi Son is running out of time to clinch a merger deal between the US wireless subsidiary Sprint and Deutsche Telekom's US unit T-Mobile.