16+ hour, 26+ min ago   (199+ words) Sept. 13 (UPI) -- Crude oil prices jumped Sunday after Saudi Arabia shuttered its vital pipeline that bypasses the Strait of Hormuz. The Saudi government has not disclosed how badly the East-West pipeline was damaged in an attack by drones launched from…...

17+ hour, 59+ min ago   (609+ words) Sept. 13 (Asia Today) -- Competition in the global semiconductor industry is increasingly becoming a battle for engineers, pushing Samsung Electronics to increase compensation and stock awards to retain key employees. U.S. rivals including Micron Technology and Sandisk have begun recruiting South Korean…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (434+ words) Sept. 10 (Asia Today) -- The Bank of Korea is weighing another interest rate increase after South Korea's nominal economic growth surged to its strongest pace in decades while inflation, housing prices and household debt continued to rise. The central bank said…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (354+ words) Sept. 10 (UPI) -- Late night host Jimmy Kimmel said his show would not air his interview with Texas U.S. Senate Candidate James Talarico, but he'll show it on YouTube on Thursday. "For some reason, and I can't seem to figure out what…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (454+ words) Sept. 9 (UPI) -- Britain, Canada and France announced bans on imports from Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories as international anger mounts against the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over actions they say jeopardize the two-state solution to the…...

6+ day, 9+ hour ago   (1307+ words) BEIRUT, Lebanon, Sept. 8 (UPI) -- Seven years after Lebanon's financial collapse, its banks are still operating, but they are shadows of a once-flourishing sector that turned the country into a regional banking hub and are struggling to survive the ongoing crisis…...

1+ week, 4+ hour ago   (242+ words) SEOUL, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- South Korea's CJ CheilJedang said Monday that it has launched a technical center in Singapore in a move to speed up the global expansion of its food seasoning ingredients business. The food giant noted that the new…...

6+ day, 23+ hour ago   (440+ words) Sept. 7 (UPI) -- The owner of the Jaguar Land Rover, Britain's largest carmaker, said Monday it will lay off thousands of workers globally as it attempts to rein in costs during what it calls "ongoing geopolitical uncertainty." After days of speculation,…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (21+ words) "The Basics of Philosophy" - The 83rd Venice International Film Festival upi.com "The Basics of Philosophy" - The 83rd Venice International Film Festival...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (212+ words) Sept. 4 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump on Friday said the Iran war was "small potatoes" and "not a big thing." Trump was responding to questions about comments by Vice President J.D. Vance, who had said a day earlier that the conflict wasn't…...