BEIRUT, June 18 (Xinhua) -- Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam on Wednesday called for the renewal of the mandate of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), highlighting its essential ...

LONDON, June 18 (Xinhua) -- Britons won't be boarding their second high-speed railway -- High Speed 2 (HS2) -- before the 2030s, as the government confirmed on Wednesday that construction has been ...

The United States continues to have a low unemployment rate, solid labor market and somewhat elevated inflation, according to the Fed. "Uncertainty about the economic outlook has diminished but ...

Necdet Pamir, an energy policy expert and academic at Istanbul Topkapi University, emphasized that whether a country is an importer or an exporter, an uncontrollable surge in oil prices would strain ...

NEW YORK, June 18 (Xinhua) -- Nippon Steel has completed its 14.2 billion U.S. dollars takeover of U.S. Steel, the company announced on Wednesday, capping a year and half of fraught negotiations and ...

NEW YORK, June 18 (Xinhua) -- In a sprawling county where transit lines are sometimes miles apart, transit leaders' plans for the 2028 Olympics and Paralympics in Los Angeles, California, rely on a ...

The poll found that 51 percent of Finnish exporters surveyed support the EU imposing retaliatory tariffs that mirror those introduced or proposed by the United States. The Chamber said in a statement ...

NEW YORK, June 18 (Xinhua) -- U.S. public companies have reduced their white-collar workforces by a collective 3.5 percent over the past three years, according to employment data-provider Live Data ...

NEW YORK, June 18 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Federal Reserve on Wednesday left the target range for the federal funds rates unchanged at 4.25 percent to 4.5 percent, as solid expansion of economic activity ...

MOSCOW, June 18 (Xinhua) -- Losses from IT-related crimes in Russia have exceeded to 81 billion rubles (about 1.03 billion U.S. dollars) in the first five months of 2025, deputy head of the ...

NEW YORK, June 18 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the state of Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors, "a stunning setback to transgender rights," said The ...

CAIRO, June 18 (Xinhua) -- As the Israel-Iran conflict casts a heavy shadow over the Middle East, fears are mounting over its economic repercussions. In response, the Egyptian government has sought to ...