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Oil prices remained under pressure on worries about oversupply and weak global demand, but gold bucked the trend although by not enough to see the precious metal avoid its longest weekly losing streak since 1999.

The IAEA chief told reporters he recognized the frustrations, but said he “explained that my legal obligation is to protect safeguards confidentiality”. However the IAEA, using U.S., Israeli and other intelligence and its own research, suspects that Iran may have have...

The new leader of the Taliban, Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour, has declared that “the jihad will continue until there is an Islamic system” in Afghanistan, and he called on the Taliban to remain unified just as they had when his predecessor was at the helm.

That’s when Yaqoob, and his principal backer, Zakir, a senior Taliban military commander, sacked by Akhtar Mansoor in April 2014, began whispering about the likelihood of Omar’s possible death.

Average hourly earnings ticked up 5 cents in July to $24.99 and are now up 2.1 percent year over year.

The report was not bad enough to derail the Fed’s and markets’ expectations for a rate hike this year, and it was not stellar enough to lock in a September rate hike.

The brother of Mullah Mohammad Omar on Sunday joined a growing chorus of opposition to the opaque selection of the late Taliban leader’s successor, indicating widening rifts within the militant group as it weighs whether to revive peace talks or intensify its 14-year...

A wave of attacks on Afghan police, army and North Atlantic Treaty Organisation installations in Kabul has killed at least 42 people and wounded hundreds, dashing hopes that Taliban insurgents might be weakened by a leadership struggle after news of their longtime leader’s...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, from right, speaks with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem as Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad listens during their meeting at the presidency office in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, August 5, 2015.

Earlier, reports had said that following Omar’s death, Mansour was elected as the group’s leader after the Taliban Shura Council met at an undisclosed location in the border region of Pakistan and Afghanistan to decide on Omar’s replacement.

That, at least, is the word from most economists. This year is the first since then that the national unemployment rate for black Americans has dipped below the double-digit mark-and that feat has only been accomplished in 11 states.

“We don’t have the tools to be able to address the structure of unemployment across groups, but a stronger economy generally really does tend to be beneficial to all Americans and that’s what we are working towards”, she said. Economists surveyed by...

Top Wall Street banks still expect the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates in September, but a growing number now believe the central bank is likely to only hike once this year, a Reuters poll found on Friday.

The U.S. economy created a net of 215,000 jobs in July, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Friday.

A report carried by CBS News last year claimed that US President Barack Obama’s administration had pressured Israel to stop carrying out assassinations inside Iran against its nuclear scientists. Most Middle Eastern countries harbor bitter resentment over Iran’s ever...