New york: US stocks closed mostly higher Wednesday as inflation data met market expectations and strong corporate results fueled gains in artificial intelligence-related shares. The

Beirut: Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said Wednesday that Israel’s claim that destroyed southern Lebanese villages are military sites ‘makes no sense.’ ‘The justification for

Tokyo: Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Wednesday urged Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian for “free and safe navigation” in the Strait of Hormuz “without additional

Ankara: Trkiye “strongly” condemned a statement by Colombia that seeks to legitimize Israel’s occupation of the Golan Heights, emphasizing that the territory is an integral

Gaza city: Civil Defense crews in the Gaza Strip began recovering the bodies of 13 Palestinians on Tuesday from beneath the rubble of a multi-story

Yuzhno-sakhalinsk: Russian President Vladimir Putin declared on Wednesday that Russia would “respond in kind” to the seizure of its merchant vessels by EU countries, labeling

Norway: Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global recorded total assets of 24.82 trillion Norwegian kroner ($2.6 trillion) at the end of June 2026, up from 22.95