Davos, Switzerland (CNN Business)China has a message for the Davos crowd: Fear about an economic slowdown is overblown.In a speech at the World Economic Forum, Vice President Wang Qishan said that growth remains substantial,

TEHRAN, Iran: Iran’s state TV says the army has launched an annual infantry drill involving some 12,000 troops.It quotes Gen. Nozar Nemati as saying the two-day exercise will unfold over a 500-square kilometer area

HASAKAH, Syria: Any deal between Syria’s Kurds and Damascus should respect the “special status” of Kurdish-led forces who fought the Daesh group, a top Kurdish commander of those forces said.“Any political agreement should include

Turkey court orders release of hunger striking Kurdish MP /node/1441641/middle-east Updated 2 min 59 sec ago January 25, 2019 07:29 0 Turkey court orders release of hunger striking Kurdish MP Updated 2 min 59

Around 800,000 federal workers of the United States are about to miss their second paycheques. Many of them have been turning to charities and donations to survive. Low-income Americans may be evicted without the

Iraq's city of Basra has been facing protests against corruption and poor services for months. Demonstrators now say they want to get more organised and unite with other groups. Now, they are embracing a

The Israeli foreign ministry has reprimanded Ireland's ambassador Alison Kelly after the lower house of Irish parliament voted in favour of a bill that will ban the purchase of goods and services from the illegal

Military operations against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) group in Syria are wrapping up and the last pocket of the group's "caliphate" will be flushed out within a

A Turkish court has ordered the supervised release of an arrested legislator from the pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP) who is seriously ill as a result of her 11-week-long hunger strike. Leyla Guven, 55,

George Soros has labeled China's President Xi Jinping the "most dangerous enemy" of open societies and recommended a crackdown on Chinese tech companies. The billionaire said Thursday in Davos that artificial intelligence and machine