The Bank of Israel has taken a significant step toward exploring the future of money by unveiling a preliminary design for its potential central bank digital currency (CBDC), dubbed the digital Shekel ...

FRANKFURT -- Banks struggled to process payments on Friday after an unprecedented day-long breakdown in the European Central Bank's machine underpinning trillions of euros of money movements.

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich will head to Washington in the coming days to meet with U.S. Treasury Secretary ...

The ruling comes in a lawsuit filed by unions on behalf of workers. They say the rush to dismantle the agency cut off some ...

It took generations of work to establish the foundations of the Western alliance, and Team Trump appears eager to take a sledgehammer to those foundations. By Steve Benen Donald Trump’s first ...

Israel has announced a controversial plan to expand settlements ... The West Bank, captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war, is home to over 500,000 Israeli settlers and nearly 3 million ...

Today, their pastures cover almost twice as much land as built-up settlements, he adds. Settler farms are now proliferating throughout the West Bank ... recognized by the international community ...

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At the end of 2024, the number of settlements signed by the bank with clients reached 13,000, both pre-trial and post-litigation, CEO Maciej Gajewski, said during press conference. Meanwhile ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A housing construction site is seen at the West Bank Jewish settlement of Eli, Monday, Nov. 11, 2024. (AP ...

This contravenes the obligations under international humanitarian law and as laid out by the ICJ, which require a complete ban on trade and business with Israel’s illegal settlements.

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