REGROUPING

Market expectations of rate cuts increased to 55% for September. Traders awaited the release of the PCE price index for insights on interest rate cuts. Dollar weakened due to softer inflation data.

Pakistan's security forces conducted raids in the northwest, a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban, resulting in shootouts resulting in the deaths of seven soldiers and 23 militants. The first attack occurred on the outskirts of Peshawar, kil...

Israeli forces battle Palestinian militants in Gaza, risking Egypt peace treaty. Heavy bombardment reported in Jabaliya and Zeitoun. Civilians flee to Khan Younis and Mawasi. Lack of a postwar governance plan in Gaza.

The Kremlin responded cautiously to French President Macron's proposal for an Olympic truce during the Paris Games, expressing concerns that Ukraine might exploit the pause to regroup and rearm. While suspending conflicts during the Olympics is a tr...

The UN said Tuesday that Israel's severe restrictions on aid into war-ravaged Gaza coupled with its military offensive could amount to using starvation as a "weapon of war", which would be a "war crime". She noted that malnutrition had been basicall...

Israeli forces conducted a raid on Gaza's largest hospital, Shifa, citing the presence of Hamas militants who allegedly fired from within the compound. Tens of thousands of people, including patients and staff, are sheltering there. The EU's top dip...

Israeli forces raid Gaza hospital, U.N. warns of famine. Cease-fire talks ongoing. Northern Gaza in humanitarian crisis. Oxfam criticizes aid distribution issues. Hostilities continue in war-torn region, worsening the situation.

The World Food Program on Monday released the latest findings of its Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, or IPC, an international process for estimating the scale of hunger crises.

The Reserve Bank of India on Thursday left the repo rate unchanged at 6.50% following the conclusion of its three-day monetary policy meeting. This is the sixth consecutive time the central bank has left policy rates untouched and the longest pause ...

Uddhav Thackeray told Sena legislators that the alliance with BJP was not possible as he was personally hurt by BJP leaders attacking his family, including allegations linking his son Aaditya Thackeray to Sushant Singh Rajput's death, according to t...

"The goal is to establish full control over the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk regions," the update posted on the General Staff's Facebook page says.

Russia meanwhile threatened to turn off its gas taps to Europe if payments are not made in rubles, as US President Joe Biden ordered a record release of strategic oil reserves to ease soaring US prices. Over a month into Russia's invasion of its nei...

Two days after the Kremlin announced it would significantly scale back operations near both the capital and the northern city of Chernihiv, Russian forces continued to shell Kyiv's suburbs. The troop movement near Kyiv comes amid growing indications...

Stoltenberg also said the alliance has yet to be convinced that Russia was negotiating in good faith in peace talks in Istanbul because Moscow's military objective since launching its invasion of Ukraine has not changed.

With the Russian assault in its third week, Zelenskiy, who has rallied his people with a series of addresses from the capital Kyiv, said Ukraine had "already reached a strategic turning point".

Asian stocks steadied on Wednesday and demand for safe-havens waned a little as investors regarded Russian troop movements near Ukraine and initial Western sanctions as leaving room to avoid a war, while a rate hike lifted New Zealand's dollar.

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says the al-Qaida extremist group that used Afghanistan as a staging base to attack United States 20 years ago may attempt to regenerate there following the U.S. withdrawal that left the Taliban in power. (AP)Al-Q...

While former Herat strongman Ismail Khan, now in his 70s, is planning to regroup to fight the Taliban, dozens of fighters have pledged loyalty to former vice-president Marshal Abdul Rashid Dostum in the northern provinces against the Taliban, ET has...

At a recent Pentagon briefing in Washington, General Kenneth F McKenzie Jr, Commander US Central Command (Centcom), has warned that after the US withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, the biggest threat would be the regrouping of Al Qaeda and IS mil...