President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he has spoken to Tehran "directly," adding that the Iranians "want to make a deal" with the United States. He also said the war, which began on Feb. 28, is "hopefully" coming to an end in the near term.

The yen dropped after the Bank of Japan’s decision to hike rates as a split vote sent bearish signals, strategists said. The Japanese currency fell as much as 0.5% after the central bank raised its benchmark interest rate by a quarter percentage point to 1.

Russians on Friday began three days of voting in the country’s first wartime parliamentary election, which features virtually no opposition and is all but certain to secure the Kremlin’s political dominance.

It is the second consecutive year the State Department has prevented key Palestinian officials from attending the U.N. meeting in New York.

The international fact-finding mission on Iran says the findings center on a pair of airstrikes, including one on a school in the southern city of Minab.

Iranian forces in recent days have brought down at least two American MQ-1 unmanned aircraft, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

Market bets on further European Central Bank rate hikes are being driven largely by higher energy prices but policymakers will look ​at a much wider set of economic indicators when deciding their next moves,

US officials made a rare visit to Myanmar this week to secure the release of an American businessman who had been detained in the war-torn country since June.