JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructed the military to carry out an "intensive" operation in the West Bank after explosions on buses close to Tel Aviv on Thursday (Feb 20), in ...

Investors will be keeping an eye on the Japanese yen, which rose to a more than two-month high of 150.52 per U.S. dollar on ...

Crises are wrenching, and instructive — but not the only thing going on. Three central banks in Asia displayed some ...

The Trump administration’s move to freeze U.S. foreign aid and development work is a seismic event. International development ...

Population aging is rapidly becoming one of Asia's most daunting challenges. In 2023, 14 percent of the region's population ...

A major military campaign by Palestinian Authority security forces against militants in the West Bank revealed serious ...

FAR’A REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank (AP) — By car and on foot, through muddy olive groves and snipers’ sight lines, tens of thousands of Palestinians in recent weeks have fled Israeli military operations ...

HSBC HSBA.L posted annual profit on Wednesday that beat estimates, helped by increased revenue in wealth and markets businesses, and set stiff cost-cut targets as its new CEO implements a revamp of ...

China supports all efforts conducive to peace talks in Ukraine, China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi told the United Nations ...

HSBC is in discussions to offload its retail banking operations in Bahrain, according to two sources with knowledge of the matter, as part of its recently announced group-wide restructuring, which ...

Economic corridors in South Asia can boost trade, industrialisation, and connectivity, addressing infrastructure gaps and creating jobs ...

Four shareholders, including two of the 20 largest, said last month's decision to axe HSBC's mergers and equity capital markets teams in the Americas and Europe made sense as the bank focuses on its ...