The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan made a final push for votes in a referendum on expanding his powers, as the authorities said they had foiled a possible Islamist militant plot against the poll.
Tens of thousands of people are expected to attend rallies on Saturday, April 15, the day that marks the traditional deadline for filing income tax returns.
The death toll in flash floods triggered by heavy rains in Iran's northwest province of eastern Azarbaijan rose to 30 as rescue teams deployed.
An Iraqi military officer reported that the Islamic State militants had launched a gas attack in a newly-liberated region in western Mosul.
The Trump administration has declined to label China a currency manipulator, but is keeping the country on its list of those to monitor, according to a new report from the US Treasury Department.
The number of militants killed in an attack by the largest non-nuclear weapon ever used by the US military rose to 94, an Afghan official reported on Saturday.
A rubbish dump landslide in the Sri Lankan capital city has killed around 16, injured more than a dozen and buried around 100 houses.
As many as 39 people are killed after a huge explosion targeted a bus convoy in Aleppo moving residents of two besieged Shia villages.
An earthquake measuring 6.2 magnitude has struck Chile, close to the border with Argentina, the United States Geological Survey has reported.
The Islamic State's militant linked to the 2015 attack on a French weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo could be still alive, the Iraqi military said.
The Tunisian, who drove a truck into a Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12 people, received orders directly from the Islamic State. The attacker was shot dead four days after the incident by Italian police in Milan.
With the US Navy deployed near the Korean Peninsula, experts warn that Pyongyang prepares another nuclear test in response to the US aggression.
Russia will urge the Organisation for Prohibition of Chemical Weapon and the UN to urgently send inspectors for a probe into the incident of the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria.
The explosives used in the attack on the soccer team Dortmund Borussia's bus may have come from supplies of German armed forces. It still remains unclear who carried out the attack.
China still faces a challenging trade outlook, which is no likely to improve anytime soon, regardless of positive trade figures in the first quarter, a senior commerce official warned.
China's securities watchdog said that stock exchanges had to conduct supervision over IPOs, mergers, reorganisation and delisting of listed companies more proactively.
The EU lawmakers could summon the French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen to discuss lifting of her immunity over the alleged misuse of the EU funds, ahead of the second round of the election.
China's fiscal revenue growth is set to slow in the second quarter as factors that boosted robust expansion in the beginning of the year are likely to weaken. China's fiscal revenue rose 14.1% on an annual basis in the first quarter.
The US Treasury Department said that no major trading partners including China met the standard of manipulating its currency over the past six months to keep it undervalued.
Standard & Poor's warned that Brazil's political crisis and corruption scandals could affect the country's credit rating. Brazil's positive factors were at below 10%, whereas its negative factors were between 70% and 80%.
China's green financing should be improved as the country seeks more sustainable growth, the PBoC's official said. Green financing remains at an early stage and it has the potential to be more effective.
China's Foreign Minister warned that tensions on the Korean Peninsula were getting close to the breaking point, with the US Navy deployed near the region and experts speculating that North Korea prepares another nuclear test.
Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that he planned to discuss settlement of the Syrian crisis with the Foreign Minister of Qatar, which plays a big role in solving problems of the Middle East and Northern Africa.
The GBU-43/B bomb, also known as the "mother of all bombs", which US military forces dropped in Afghanistan on Thursday, was developed originally for use against the Nazi state in the Second World War.