The US handled more than $12 billion of Venezuela’s oil and mineral revenues in nine months, a State Department report shows, with nearly all of it sent back.
US existing-home sales fell 5.5% in October to 3.75 million, the lowest since August 2010, as mortgage rates near 7.33% kept buyers on the sidelines.
Britain’s economy grew 0.7% in the third quarter of 2026, its fastest pace in two and a half years, as AI-related services powered a broad expansion.
A Russian colonel was killed when a bomb under his car exploded in St. Petersburg, the second such attack in the same district in under three months.
Iran says it struck navigation systems on Oman’s Didamar Island in the Strait of Hormuz. Three sources confirmed an attack; Oman disputes the damage.
Around 6,300 Italian schools received hoax bomb warnings on Wednesday, forcing evacuations, as the same email threat reached schools in Ireland and the UK.
Xi Jinping said Taiwan’s complete reunification must happen, pledging peaceful reunification. Taipei dismissed the remarks as nothing new. Here is what he said.
ASIC sued Commonwealth Bank over hidden CommBiz fees on the same day NAB agreed to repay $169 million to 66,000 underpaid staff. Here is what both cases mean.
US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner arrived in Moscow on Thursday for talks with Vladimir Putin, the latest push to end the war in Ukraine.
A three-story building in Brooklyn fell into a construction pit on Wednesday, killing two and injuring 17. Rescuers are still searching the rubble.
An Israeli airstrike hit Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis early Thursday, killing at least six and wrecking the surgery and intensive care wards.
Scott Colom has defeated Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi, becoming the state’s first Black senator since Reconstruction and its first Democratic senator since 1982.
