Trade activity came down slightly on the cotton market on Wednesday as some needy mills preferred to make deals on reports of shortfall in arrivals of seed cotton, dealers said. The official spot rate was

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China's net gold imports via main conduit Hong Kong in December halved from the previous month, data showed on Monday, as the world's top gold consumer likely limited import quotas for its banks while the

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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro hit out Wednesday at military "mercenaries" he says are conspiring to divide the armed forces and plot a coup as the opposition planned a new protest to force the socialist leader

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A Russian lawmaker was arrested Wednesday in the middle of a parliament session in connection with two murders committed eight years ago, an official and news reports said. Rauf Arashukov, a 32-year-old senator representing the

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US aid to the Palestinian security services will end this week at the Palestinians' request, an official in the West Bank said Wednesday, to preempt lawsuits over alleged support for terrorism. The Palestinian Authority has

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Digital tourism giants Airbnb, Booking.com, Expedia and TripAdvisor are profiting from "war crimes" by offering services in Israeli settlements, rights group Amnesty International said in a report published Wednesday. The London-based organisation's "Destination: Occupation" report

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Palestinian and European officials expressed concern and regret Wednesday over Israel's decision not to renew the mandate of an international monitoring group in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron. The Temporary International Presence in

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The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen released seven Huthi rebel prisoners on Wednesday and returned them to Sanaa, the United Nations said. The office of UN envoy Martin Griffiths said he was "very encouraged by

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Spain's King Felipe VI on Wednesday visited special forces helping Iraq fight jihadists, during the first trip by a Spanish monarch to the war-ravaged country in four decades, a diplomat said. The king, whose country

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Twelve people have been killed in floods after heavy rain lashed northern parts of Saudi Arabia this week, the civil defence agency said on Wednesday. Ten died in the northwestern city of Tabuk and one

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