The chief paediatric doctor at a southern Gaza hospital told AFP that three babies had died of "severe temperature drop" this week, as the war-ravaged Palestinian territory grapples with winter cold.

Bosnia's security minister was arrested on Thursday on suspicion of corruption while he headed the road management company in the country's Serb entity, prosecutors announced.

The Magnificent Seven stocks were trading mixed on Thursday morning, but they’ve had a stellar 2024, and the future looks bright. This year, Apple is up 34%, Nvidia has soared 180%, Alphabet has ...

Turkey's central bank lowered its key interest rate on Thursday, the first cut in nearly two years as it battles with double-digit inflation.

An Iraqi delegation met with Syria's new rulers in Damascus on Thursday, an Iraqi government spokesman said, the latest diplomatic outreach more than two weeks after the fall of Bashar al-Assad's rule ...

The operator of Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant said Thursday it will start the second round of a tricky operation to collect samples of radioactive debris from the site this spring.

U.S. markets reopened in the red on Thursday after the Christmas holiday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 122 points, or 0.3%, the S&P 500 dropped 0.3%, and the Nasdaq Composite lost 0.2%.

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Mozambique's main opposition leader Venancio Mondlane on Thursday accused security forces of encouraging looting and unrest to allow the ruling party to declare a state of emergency after contested ...

Multiple air raids targeted an airport, military air base and a power station in Yemen on Thursday, witnesses and the Iran-backed Huthi rebels said.

Oil futures gain in quiet holiday trade, buoyed by hopes that Chinese economic stimulus will help demand in 2025. "Overnight news was focused on new Chinese stimulus," Scott Shelton of TP ICAP says in ...

Jobless claims arrived lower than forecasts for the week ending Dec. 21. Claims were 219,000, a decrease of 1,000 from the ...