The Parliament of Iraq adopted the budged of $88B with a deficit of $10.58 on Saturday despite a boycott organized by Kurdish lawmakers.
The US President Donald Trump threatened on Saturday to impose a tax on European car imports if the European Union raises tariffs on American steel and aluminium.
The President of Burkina Faso Roch Kabore urged citizens on Saturday to cooperate more closely with security forces. The call came a day after attack on French embassy that resulted in death of 16 people.
According to the Alakhbar news agency, one of local al Qaeda's affiliates Jama'a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM) took responsibility for attack on French embassy in Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou.
Iran would continue negotiations over its missile program only if Europe and the US surrendered their nuclear weapons, a spokesman of Iran's Armed Forces said on Saturday.
The US-based oil company Exxon Mobil Corporation will donate $1M for the humanitarian assistance to earthquake victims in Papua New Guinea.
The Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak assured on Saturday that the natural gas transit to Europe via Ukraine was not under threat.
Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for the Russian President Vladimir Putin, said on Saturday that the extended US sanctions over Russia's activity in Ukraine were ‘unlawful'.
The Pakistani ruling party Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz won 15 of the 52 seats in Senate on Saturday, thus becoming the largest party in the parliament's upper house.
The Chilean President-Elect Sebastian Pinera is set to introduce his reform proposal for the country's pension system during the first half of 2018.
According to a recent election poll, Austria's Freedom Party is likely to remain second in the region of Carinthia on Sunday.
India's Central Bureau of Investigation revealed that one official from the Punjab National Bank was accused of receiving a bribe from a person involved in a $2B bank fraud.
North Korea would take counteraction towards the United States if it held military exercises with South Korea while sanctions were in place, as reported by the state media KCNA.
The Transport Minister of North-Rhine Westphalia Hendrik Wuest said the implementation of diesel bans could take two years during which other anti-pollution strategies may be found.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Saturday that an air strike made by Turkish warplanes in the Afrin region killed 36 pro-Syrian government soldiers.
In result of election victory in the states of Tripura, Nagaland and Meghalaya India's Bharatiya Janta Party got control over five out of seven north-eastern states, thus strengthens its positions against main opposition parties.
Ukrainian state-owned gas pipeline operator Ukrtransgaz stated on Saturday that Russia's Gazprom decision to terminate gas contracts with Naftogaz did not disrupt current gas flow to Europe.
The Sales Chief of German car maker Porsche Detlev von Platen said on Saturday that company could start development of flying taxis in order to successfully compete with Asian and American companies in future urban car market.
The German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday that her country together with France plan to create a single corporation tax system in reply to the US President Donald Trump's announced tax cuts.
The Deputy CEO of Russia's state-owned gas company Gazprom Alexander Medvedev stated on Saturday that the company has begun a process of termination of gas contracts with Ukrainian Naftogaz in Stockholm's arbitration tribunal.
The US Ocean Infinity hired by Malaysian government said on Saturday it plans to finish its own search of remains of missing flight MH370 that carried 239 people on board by mid-June.
Most of the British and Irish airports reopened on Saturday morning after the strongest snowstorms in more than 20 years caused two days of notable transport disruptions.
China plans to deepen friendship relations with Taiwan despite current tensions, the Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Yu Zhengsheng says.
Sudan plans to send its ambassador back to Egypt, the Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ghandour says, after withdrawing him for two months amid increased tensions.