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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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Bangladesh on Thursday ordered a commission to investigate a failed 2009 army mutiny and subsequent crackdown, including the role of alleged "foreign" backers, the inquiry chief said.

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 ...

The United Nations' peacekeeping force in Lebanon expressed concern on Thursday at the "continuing" damage done by Israeli forces in the country's south despite a ceasefire in the war with Hezbollah.

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