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Swiss National Bank's (SNB) Chairman of the Governing Board Martin Schlegel speaks during a media briefing at the Swiss National Bank in Zurich, Switzerland, Thursday, June 19, 2025. (Michael Buholzer/Keystone via AP)

Swiss cut key interest rate by a quarter percentage point, putting its target now at 0%

Switzerland’s central bank says it has cut its target interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point, adding inflationary pressures have eased.
 
Security ahead of the NATO summit in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday, June 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

NATO summit brings tight security and disrupts life in The Hague

 
A dealer walks past near the screens showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI), left, and the foreign exchange rate between U.S. dollar and South Korean won at a dealing room of Hana Bank in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, June 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Global shares decline as tensions simmer in the Middle East

 
Beachgoers leave during a missile alert from Iran, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, June 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

US starts evacuating some diplomats from its embassy in Israel as Iran conflict intensifies

 
A man looks at flames rising from an oil storage facility after it appeared to have been struck by an Israeli strike in Tehran, Iran, early Sunday, June 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

As Israel strikes Iran, many wonder if the US will deepen its involvement

 

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An Israeli tank maneuvers on the Gaza Strip border in southern Israel, Wednesday, March 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Middle East latest: Israeli forces are recapturing a key corridor that cuts Gaza in half

 

Trump’s actions align with Israeli far-right as new strikes break ceasefire with Hamas

 
An injured man is taken to the Al-Ahli hospital following overnight Israeli army airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, in Gaza City, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi).

PHOTO GALLERY:Israel’s wave of airstrikes on Gaza

 
Mourners gather around the bodies of Palestinians who were killed in an Israeli army airstrikes as they are brought to Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

After one of the deadliest days in Gaza, here’s the conflict in numbers

 

Israeli attack on Gaza shatters ceasefire and kills hundreds, AP explains

 
Smoke rises following an Israeli bombardment in the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Wednesday, March 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

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The body of Muhannad Akrad, one of three people killed in Israeli airstrikes on Monday, is carried for burial at the Omary mosque in Daraa, southern Syria, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)

Mourners attend funeral of man killed in Israeli airstrikes on Syrian city of Daraa

 
Relatives of hostage held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, stand by the Israe-Gaza border fence, calling for their release and expressing concerns that the resumption of fighting in Gaza puts their loved ones at risk, in southern Israel, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Families of hostages in Gaza are terrified they won’t return after Israel resumes fighting

 
A Palestinian man holds the body of his 11 month-old nephew Mohammad Shaban, killed in an Israeli army airstrikes at the Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Israel’s surprise bombardment plunged Palestinians back into ‘hell’

 
In this image made from a video released by the Israeli Government Press Office, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a statement Tuesday, March 18, 2025, in Tel Aviv, Israel. (Israeli Government Press Office via AP)

Why did Netanyahu end the Gaza ceasefire?

 
The body of a Palestinian killed in an Israeli army airstrikes is brought to Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

What to know about why Israel launched dozens of attacks across Gaza, raising fears of all-out war

 
Masih Alinejad blows a kiss to supporters outside the federal courthouse after testifying at the trial of her would-be assassins in New York, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Iranian dissident Masih Alinejad testifies at the trial of two men accused of plotting to kill her

 
An injured man is taken to the Al-Ahli hospital following overnight Israeli army airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, in Gaza City, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi).

Netanyahu says Israeli strikes across Gaza that killed hundreds are ‘only the beginning’

 
A Palestinian man holds the body of his 11 month-old nephew Mohammad Shaban, killed in an Israeli army airstrikes at the Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Middle East latest: Israeli attack on Gaza shatters ceasefire and kills hundreds

 
A dead person killed during an Israeli army strike is taken into the hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Tuesday March 18, 2025.(AP Photo/ Mohammad Jahjouh)

Israel launches deadly wave of airstrikes across Gaza after ceasefire talks stall

 
Houthi supporters chant slogans during an anti-U.S. and anti-Israel rally in Sanaa, Yemen, Monday, March 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)

Trump warns Iran it will face ‘consequences’ of further attacks from Yemen’s Houthi rebels

 
Ronen Bar, chief of Israel's domestic Shin Bet security agency, attends a ceremony marking Memorial Day for fallen soldiers of Israel's wars and victims of attacks at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl military cemetery, May 13, 2024. (Gil Cohen-Magen/Pool photo via AP, File)

Netanyahu’s push to fire Israel’s domestic security chief sparks an uproar

 
Iranian Shiite cleric Mehdi Karroubi gestures during a news conference on Iran's parliamentary elections in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, March 9, 2008. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

A son says a leader of Iran’s 2009 Green Movement protests will be freed from house arrest

 

AP explains how US strikes on Yemen fit into wider Mideast tensions

 
Syrian troops maneuver in the village of Hawsh al-Sayyid Ali, located 2 km (1.24 miles) from the Lebanon border, Syria, Monday, March 17, 2025. Lebanon's president ordered troops to retaliate for gunfire from the Syrian side of the border after renewed fighting broke out overnight along the frontier. (AP Photo/Omar Albam)

Lebanon and Syria agree to ceasefire after 2 days of border clashes, Syrian defense ministry says

 
Family members hold pictures of their relatives who disappeared in the nearly 14-year Syrian civil war, during a protest calling on the interim government to not give up on efforts to find them, in the city of Daraa, Syria, Sunday, March 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)

Families of Syrians who disappeared during its civil war say the search must go on

 

Parade held in Jerusalem to celebrate Jewish holiday of Purim

 
In this photo provided by the Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets, members of their team search through the debris of a four-story building after an ordnance from Syria's 13-conflict exploded in the coastal city of Latakia, Syria, early Sunday, March 16, 2025. 2025. The White Helmets said it worked overnight and recovered 16 bodies. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP)

At least 16 people killed after ordnance from Syrian civil war explodes in port city of Latakia

 
This image taken from video provided by the U.S. Navy shows an aircraft launching from the USS Harry S. Truman in the Red Sea before airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen, Saturday, March 15, 2025. (U.S. Navy via AP)

Trump orders strikes on Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen and issues new warning

 
A Syrian army helicopter throws flowers and confetti on a group of demonstrators marking the 14th anniversary of the start of the uprising against Bashar Assad's regime in March 2011, in Umayyad square, Damascus, Syria, Saturday, March 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Syrians mark 14th anniversary of civil war uprising by celebrating the ouster of Bashar Assad

 

Israel says it killed a Hezbollah member in a drone strike in south Lebanon

 
People take part in a protest demanding the immediate release of hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, March 15, 2025. (AP Photo//Oded Balilty)

Hamas says it will only release American-Israeli hostage if ceasefire deal is implemented

 

Hamas says it will free a US-Israeli hostage to keep ceasefire talks rolling, AP Explains

 
Palestinians perform Friday prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem, during the holy Muslim month of Ramadan, Friday, March 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Middle East latest: Hamas says it will free a US-Israeli hostage to keep ceasefire talks rolling

 
Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaybani, left, speaks during a news conference with his Iraqi counterpart Fouad Hussein following their meeting, in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, March.14, 2025. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been killed, Iraqi prime minister says

 
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