Consumers sharply curtailed their spending in January, indicating a potential weakening in economic growth ahead, according to a Commerce Department report Friday. Retail sales slipped 0.9% for the month from an upwardly revised 0.7% gain in December, even worse than the Dow Jones estimate for a 0.2% decline. The sales totals…
Hamas said it will release Israeli hostages as initially planned after holding “positive” talks with mediators, following a dispute with…
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The first of two vessels carrying 1,000 tons of a Chinese-made chemical that could be a key component in fuel…
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Thailand has received 260 human trafficking victims, more than half of them Ethiopians, from Myanmar, its army said on Thursday,…
Sri Lanka extended power cuts for a third day on Thursday as it scrambled to restore its national grid to…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said a Russian drone struck the destroyed nuclear power plant at Chernobyl near Ukraine’s border with…