In spite of a government push towards closer ties with the EU, Moldova's President expressed his hopes over the possibility of the country to become an observer to the EEU in 2017.
In a response to the latest North Korea's ICBM launch, South Korea decided to proceed with the additional THAAD anti-missile defence system units deployment.
Late on Friday, the US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said he was set to prolong a debt limit measure for two extra months, as the previous period is due to expire.
According to people with knowledge on the matter, Sprint has offered a merger with Charter Communications, as the company seeks for alternatives to its T-Mobile deal.
In a statement released late on Friday, the White House said the US President Donald Trump was set to approve a bill imposing sanctions against Russia, Iran and North Korea.
The oil producer Exxon Mobil Corp reported weaker-than-expected profits in the second quarter of 2017, resulting from reduced production in its Canadian and African operations.
The President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Neel Kashkari favours a reduction of the Fed' s $4.5T balance sheet due to its recent inability to boost the US economy.
Oil prices were trading at a two-month high on Friday, thus experiencing the strongest weekly rise of 2017 amid signs of mitigated oversupply risks.
The second largest Canadian pipeline operator TransCanada Corp planned to finalise its decision on the Keystone XL investment project by December, a representative said on Friday.
On Friday, the International Monetary Fund said that the US Dollar was overestimated by 15%, while assessments of the Yen, Euro and Yuan were in line with economic fundamentals.
Philip Hammond, the UK Finance Minister, said on Friday that there would be no instant changes in trade or immigration legislation after Brexit in 2019.
The European Union granted €46M to Italy to help it secure Libya's borders. The money transfer represents part of the EU' s attempts to reduce the flow of migrants arriving from Africa.
On Friday night, North Korea test-fired another ballistic missile into the sea that presumably landed in the Japanese EEZ. The US Department of Defense confirmed the launch.
One person was killed and several others injured when a unidentified assailant attacked people with a knife in a Hamburg supermarket, German police reported.
Amazon.com reported a jump in retail sales along with a profit slump, as its rapid, costly expansion into new shopping categories and countries showed no sign of slowing.
American Airlines Group Inc. reported profit fell in the second quarter despite a sharp increase in revenue due in part to higher ticket pricing and improved business domestically and in Latin America.
The US government on Thursday ordered family members of the US embassy staff stationed in Caracas to leave Venezuela due to the ongoing violence and the lack of food and medicine in the country.
On Friday, Britain ended its ban on electronic devices carried in the cabin of an aircraft on some flights from Turkey to the UK after launching new security measures.
Over 120 people were reported to be dead as a widespread flooding hit an Indian industrial state of Gujarat, paralysing infrastructure and damaging more than 1K cotton farmers.
On Friday, the United Nations urged Vietnam to release a dissident blogger, jailed to nine years in prison for propaganda against the country, as a sentence and trial's conduct did not comply with standards.
The European Commission vowed on Friday that negotiations over the potential transition period of Brexit could only start after its divorce issues were settled.
On Saturday, Sri Lanka is eager to sign a $1.1B deal with China on leasing its Southern Hambantota port after a few months of delay amid local protests over the deal could threaten national security.
Telecom Italia named Amos Genish as the company's General Manager of operations on Friday, the executive chairman stated, confirming the Reuters report.
The number of people injured in a commuter train crash in Barcelona Francia station climbed to 54; however, no deaths have been reported.