Chinese bank regulators approved the registration of S&P Global's Chinese entity on Monday, giving the US tech firm access to the country's credit rating market, as the China-US trade war grinds on. The People's Bank

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An EU delegation has visited China's far western region of Xinjiang, a rare chance to gather evidence on controversial re-education camps that have drawn harsh criticism from rights groups and Western powers, officials told AFP

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The UN envoy for Yemen said Monday the expected timeline for a truce in the flashpoint city of Hodeida and a prisoner swap between warring parties had been pushed back. Envoy Martin Griffiths hosted hard-won

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Confidential data of 14,200 people diagnosed with HIV, mostly foreigners, has been stolen and leaked online in Singapore, authorities said Monday, the second massive data breach in the city-state within months. An American convicted of

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A rare and powerful tornado has devastated sections of Havana, overturning cars, uprooting trees and leaving homes in shambles. Three people were killed and 172 injured, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said Monday. A shaken resident,

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Facebook unveiled Monday new tools to counter online political meddling in the European elections, part of a campaign to answer growing pressure to rein in disinformation. The US tech giant's vice president, former British deputy

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Ukrainian authorities aided by Belgian, US and other investigators have staged raids aimed at smashing the illegal trade of access to hacked computer systems, officials said Monday. Police and prosecutors conducted house searches in nine

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Aluminium prices fell on Monday after the United States lifted sanctions on the world's second-largest aluminium producer, United Company Rusal. The United States announced in December its intention to lift the sanctions on Rusal and

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Middle East crude benchmarks edged up on Monday, while traders await Russian producers to offer the remaining ESPO Blend crude cargoes for March-loading. Chinese demand for crude oil is rebounding as independent refiners push to

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Oil fell more than 3 percent on Monday, heading for its biggest one-day percentage drop in a month due after an increase in US crude drilling pointed to further supply growth. The trade war between

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