WASHINGTON, July 29 (Yonhap) -- The U.S. Federal Reserve on Wednesday held its benchmark interest rate steady for the fifth consecutive time amid continuing concerns over the economic impact of renewed fighting in the Iran war and U.S. President Donald Trump's calls to lower borrowing costs.
The US Federal Reserve held interest rates steady in a split decision on Wednesday, as renewed tensions in the Iran war add to fresh inflationary pressures.
The ITIM organization petitioned the High Court of Justice against the Chief Rabbinate on Wednesday, demanding that it update its registration policy for rabbinical certification exams so that men who have not regularized their military status cannot use years of yeshiva study completed during that period to qualify.
Taiz, Yemen – Fuad Mohammed has been working as a construction labourer for more than 25 years. The 46-year-old has seen things get progressively worse in Yemen’s construction industry since the war in the country started more than a decade ago, and then further deteriorate after the US-Israel war on Iran began in l…
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WE are taught to fear danger from outside: Chinese ships in the West Philippine Sea, a flag on a reef, war on the news. It is real, but it comes second. It is rarely destroyed from outside; it rots from within, killed by its own protectors.
NANO Nuclear Energy has been selected for a new AFWERX Small Business Innovation Research Phase I award, giving the company another opportunity to advance its KRONOS MMR Energy System with the Department of the Air Force.
United States President Donald Trump has pledged a major escalation against Iran after the latest Iranian attacks on US military sites in the Middle East.
Some 49% of Americans think that the US should arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for war crimes, according to a recent poll. After three years of war in the Middle East, Israel’s once-solid support in the US has cratered.
Italy and Saudi Arabia on Wednesday stated their opposition to Israeli annexation of the West Bank in a joint statement issued after a meeting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The week started with a bizarre incident in the Caspian Sea involving an Iranian commercial vessel and the Iranian military, an episode which threatened to expand the war by merging two conflict theatres.
The cost of the next Air Force One program for the US president has risen by another $280 million, increasing Boeing's total losses on the project to $3.08 billion, the US aerospace giant reported in its second-quarter earnings report.
The IDF detained three Israeli activists from the "HaBashan Pioneers" settler movement after they breached the Syrian border in the Mount Hermon area on Tuesday, the military announced on Wednesday.
Article 39 of the UN Charter is the hinge on which the collective security system turns. Before the Security Council can authorise sanctions, force or any coercive measure, it must determine that a situation constitutes a “threat to the peace, breach of the peace or act of aggression”.
Lebanese Forces are struggling against legal restrictions that prevent them from searching private properties in pilot zones, areas that the military is expected to ensure remain free of Hezbollah as part of a US-brokered agreement between Beirut and Jerusalem, according to Lebanese media reports.
Daniel Angel Masie Nchama had no idea what he was getting into when Russian recruiters sent the him from Equatorial Guinea into battle in war-ravaged Ukraine.
The Israeli military was about to launch a nighttime strike on a group of men in southern Syria when the soldiers noticed the long curls dangling from the temples of their targets.
One of the new developments in the recent conflict with Iran has been that Iran and its militias have increasingly targeted the Kingdom of Jordan. This has included ballistic missile attacks and also drone threats to the country. Americans have been killed in these attacks.
President Trump vowed Wednesday to “beat the f—king s—t out of” Iran in response to a surprise missile attack by the Islamic Republic targeting US troops stationed in Jordan.
UNICEF says at least 23 children have been killed and 25 others injured in Sudan's North Kordofan state since fighting intensified around the city of Al Obeid in late May.
McLaren driver Lando Norris of Britain, left, leads the field after the start during the Formula One Hungarian Grand Prix auto race, at the Hungaroring racetrack in Mogyorod, near Budapest, Hungary, Sunday, July 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)
Brenda Hollis, the US prosecutor who supervised the International Criminal Court (ICC) team that built the war crimes cases against Israeli and Hamas leaders, has defended Karim Khan's handling of the Palestine investigation, rejecting the Israeli claim that the arrest warrant applications were rushed to distract fr…
Gulf monarchies are hitting international debt markets at a record-shattering pace, Bloomberg figures show, amid a conflict-driven rush to harden domestic infrastructure and forge alternative supply corridors that bypass the vulnerable and effectively closed Strait of Hormuz. Added to this, just this month, Red Sea …
Pro-Palestinian activists involved in targeting Pablo Picasso’s masterpiece Motherhood at the National Gallery have been found guilty of criminal damage. The verdict follows a protest stunt where activists covered the famous artwork with an image related to the conflict in Gaza.
The top US commander for the Middle East has warned troops that cellphone videos shared online can help Iran target American bases, and sources told Reuters some deployed personnel could soon be ordered to surrender their phones.