Reuters

The allies had been looking to agree on a 10-year military aid package to extend the current U.S. grants to Israel worth $3 billion annually.

In return, German Chancellor Angela Merkel expected Turkey to agree more quickly to take in refugees sent back by the EU.

Among other actions, China has to pick up its pace on carrying out 172 hydropower projects, according to a top state adviser.

Many economists expect China to report that its economic growth last quarter dropped below 7 percent for the first time since the global financial crisis.

China's President Xi Jinping says the government wants to lift 70 million people out of poverty by 2020.

Israel's cabinet imposed extra security measures Sunday after more Palestinian stabbings Saturday, as it widened police stop-and-frisk powers.

Citing seven to nine months of data, Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics says the economy this year was boosted by higher private spending.

Sunday was so-called "adoption day" for the deal, which came 90 days after the nuclear deal with Iran was reached.

The allies had been looking to agree on a 10-year aid package to extend the current U.S. grants to Israel worth $3 billion annually, which are due to expire in 2017.

Re-inclusion on the USTR's annual list of the world's most "notorious markets" for sales of pirated and counterfeit goods could hurt the company's image as well as its share price.

Xi acknowledged "concerns about the Chinese economy", but sought to allay them in a written interview with Reuters.

Cuba sent troops to Africa in support of leftist governments in Angola and Ethiopia in the 1970s and 1980s.

Turkey had already complained of Russian warplanes violating its airspace along the border with Syria earlier this month.

A member of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, aka OPEC, Venezuela has been seeking more storage space in the region.

Some automobile-industry experts say the existence of several versions of the defeat device raises the possibility that a range of employees were involved in the deception on emissions tests.

Several German media outlets have reported that Martin Winterkorn, who quit at VW last month, would step down from his remaining posts related to the company in coming days.

The National Electoral Commission has announced results piecemeal over the past few days and issued its final figures Saturday.

The Nationalists, also known as the Kuomintang (KMT) in Chinese, drafted in Eric Chu as its presidential candidate at an extraordinary party congress, while at the same time revoking its previous pick.

The first bus full of migrants arrived at a Slovenian border crossing with Croatia on Saturday, after Hungary shut its border with Croatia late on Friday, diverting them toward Slovenia.

The opening of the police probe could add fuel to opposition attempts in Congress to impeach President Dilma Rousseff.

"The United States is deeply concerned about Iran's recent ballistic missile launch," the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, said in a statement.

"Their unannounced and forced entry damaged property, destroyed potential evidence and caused stress and fear for the MSF team," Doctors Without Borders said.

Panel members and staff sought answers from Huma Abedin, a longtime confidante of Clinton who serves as vice chairwoman of her presidential campaign.

"People are no longer out of their minds with valuations and expectations," a market watcher says.

"Unexpected losses can be greater for corporate loans given that average exposures to specific borrowers are much larger," a report said.

"Daimler is helping VW rebuild trust in the German car industry," an observer said. "It's an important step to help VW clean up the affair."

The move will eliminate one of the $45 billion company's five current business divisions.

The snapback in sentiment underscored robust domestic demand and offered hope that consumer spending would remain solid enough to support growth.

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York found that the project provides a public service without violating intellectual property law.