U.S. markets reopened in the red on Thursday after the Christmas holiday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 122 points, or 0.3%, the S&P 500 dropped 0.3%, and the Nasdaq Composite lost 0.2%.

At least 10,457 migrants died or disappeared while trying to reach Spain by sea in 2024, an NGO said Thursday, more than 50 percent more than last year and the most since it began keeping a tally in ...

Taiwan's Presidential Office staged on Thursday its first tabletop simulation of China's military actions in the region to boost the island's readiness against "authoritarian expansion", a security ...

Oil futures gain in quiet holiday trade, buoyed by hopes that Chinese economic stimulus will help demand in 2025. "Overnight news was focused on new Chinese stimulus," Scott Shelton of TP ICAP says in ...

The United Nations' peacekeeping force in Lebanon expressed concern on Thursday at the "continuing" damage done by Israeli forces in the country's south despite a ceasefire in the war with Hezbollah.

Jobless claims arrived lower than forecasts for the week ending Dec. 21. Claims were 219,000, a decrease of 1,000 from the ...