A lesson for the West? Japan was better prepared than most for China’s rare-earth mineral squeeze
Bulldozer scoop soil containing various rare earth to be loaded on to a ship at a port in Lianyungang, east
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Middle East
S&P 500 posts third straight losing day as traders eye Middle East tensions, Trump’s next steps: Live updates
Traders work at the New York Stock Exchange on June 18, 2025. NYSE The S&P 500 fell on Friday as
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A ‘terrible spiral of escalation’: World braces for intensifying Iran-Israel conflict
Urgent international calls for restraint appear to be falling on deaf ears as the world braces for intensifying conflict in
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Fed holds key rate steady, still sees two more cuts this year
WASHINGTON – The Federal Reserve on Wednesday kept interest rates steady amid expectations of higher inflation and lower economic growth
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Trump threatens Iran’s leader, demands ‘unconditional surrender’
President Donald Trump on Tuesday warned Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that he is an “easy target” and “our patience
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Markets are shrugging off the Israel-Iran conflict. Some strategists warn of complacency
Fire and smoke rise into the sky after an Israeli attack on the Shahran oil depot on June 15, 2025
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Israel and Iran trade strikes for a third day as hundreds are reported dead
Emergency and rescue soldiers search for trapped people around heavily damaged buildings after an overnight missile strike from Iran on
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Thousands of protesters crowd into streets, parks and plazas at anti-Trump ‘No Kings’ demonstrations
PHILADELPHIA: Thousands of demonstrators crowded into streets, parks and plazas across the US on Saturday to protest President Donald Trump,
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US capital divided by Trump’s military parade
WASHINGTON/LOS ANGELES/CHICAGO: President Donald Trump’s long-sought military parade rolled though the streets of downtown Washington on Saturday, but the celebration
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Minnesota police, FBI hunt suspect in deadly shooting of Democratic state lawmakers
MINNEAPOLIS/WASHINGTON: A gunman posing as a police officer killed a senior Democratic state assemblywoman and her husband on Saturday in
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