
The US Federal Reserve has left interest rates unchanged at a 22-year high of 5.25 per cent to 5.5 per cent as inflation continued to cool, signalling an end to its rate hiking cycle and possible rate cuts next year....

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has said that Hamas has to be destroyed....

US President Joe Biden has scheduled a meeting Wednesday with families of hostages taken by Hamas on October 7 as Israel's bombardment in Gaza escalates and the international community is turning against over its sustained military campaign....

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Wednesday said that 10 soldiers were killed in an ambush in northern Gaza, the highest single-day fatalities since the ground offensive was launched in the Hamas-controlled enclave on October 27. ...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said that his statement linking Indian agents to the killing of Khalistani leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar was meant to deter India from repeating a similar action in the country. ...

Ravi Bhalla, the first Sikh Mayor of Hoboken City in New Jersey, has announced his candidacy from the US state's 8th Congressional district. ...

An Indian-origin student is among 51 winners of the prestigious 2024 Marshall Scholarship, which selects American scholars to pursue their graduate education at any university in the UK....

A Tel Aviv-based psychiatrist has claimed that Israelis who were taken as hostages following the October 7 Hamas assault were drugged to keep them docile in captivity and also subjected to sexual and psychological abuse....

A US official said Israel has informed Washington that they have started “carefully testing out†flooding some of Gaza's tunnels with seawater “on a limited basis†to test the ability to degrade the Hamas militant group's underground network on a larger scale. ...

The Hamas militant group on Wednesday welcomed the UN General Assembly's (UNGA)call for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in the raging war in Gaza....