The Court of Cambodia imprisoned a land rights defender Tep Vanny to two and a half years as she aggressively attacked safety guards in an effort to pass a petition to the PM Hub Sen.
The Iraqi forces stormed the Mosul airport on Thursday morning, intending to gain full site control in a short time and make it a support base to re-take the west of the city from the Islamic State group.
A woman and three soldiers are reported to be dead as the militants unexpectedly attacked the army late at night in Kashmir.
On Wednesday, the US President Donald Trump recalled bathroom tag guidance in public schools that let transgender people use bathrooms by their preference.
Cuban authorities on Wednesday announced that they have stopped a plot, the aim of which was to destabilize the communist-ruled country. It was done by preventing the head of the OAS to take part in an award ceremony.
Malaysian authorities have made a request to the Interpol. The request consists of putting out an alert on four North Koreans, who are the suspects of the Kim Jong Nam assassination.
The Housing Minister of the People's Republic of China Chen Zhenggao has announced that property prices in China are expected to remain stable during the first quarter of 2017.
ABB, the engineering group from Switzerland, on Wednesday announced that the company has become a victim of a criminal fraud scheme at the South Korean subsidiary of the company. The main suspect is an ethics training executive.
Expectations of the US oil inventories data showing an increase in stockpiles caused black gold to drop more than 1% on Wednesday.
On Wednesday, John Kelly, the US Secretary of Homeland Security, stated that the US government is not conducting mass deportations, however, they are happening a lot faster than before.
The EU called on the Albanian opposition not to block a judicial reform that is the main step toward launching Albania's membership negotiations with the European Union.
Mexico will vigorously fight the US mass deportations of undocumented immigrants back to Mexico and refuse to accept any non-Mexicans expelled across the border.
Apple has announced that it will begin moving staff into its new $5B headquarters in April, opening a futuristic campus that has been more than six years in the making.
French carmaker PSA Group expects its planned acquisition of General Motors' Opel division to lead to combined sales of 5 million vehicles by 2022 and save as much as 2B euros annually.
Italian taxi drivers have called off the protests over delays over an Italian legislation regulating app-based Uber and car-hire services.
The German government on Wednesday approved stricter measures to deport asylum seekers whose applications had been denied.
The FTSE 100 closed up 0.3%, falling off session's highs after the Q4 GDP report showed the country's economy grew 0.7%, while business investment and consumer spending slid.
According to people familiar with the matter, the proposed PSA-Opel tie-up could generate up to $2.1B savings for the French automaker.
The 65-year-old French politician Francois Bayrou offered an alliance with the presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron, saying the union "can bring something to the country".
According to Marine Le Pen's lawyer, the French police confined the National Front leader's close aides for questioning over accusations of wasting EU funds.
Wall Street saw a weak start of the NY session on the back of a 1.2% slide in oil prices that caused the S&P500 energy index slump 0.64% on Wednesday.
The NAR reported that existing home sales in the US surged 3.3% over the month of January, suggesting that buyers are getting more confident in the country's economy.
Following last year's boycott of the haj, Iran sent a group of representatives to lead talks with Saudi Arabia in order to clear the matter on this year's Muslim pilgrimage.
A global deal aiming to boost the world economy by 0.5% with softened border regulations and reduced bureaucracy was enforced on Wednesday and is said to face no threats by rising protectionism in the US.