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By Yuka Obayashi TOKYO (Reuters) - Oil prices were wobbly on Monday as investors grappled with demand concerns after Saudi Arabia's sharp cuts to crude contract prices for Asia. Brent crude futures fo...

The Washington Mystics and the host Seattle Storm are both struggling as they prepare to meet Tuesday night. The difference is that defending WNBA champion Seattle already has clinched a playoff berth...

The Chicago White Sox could play a role in determining a future playoff opponent when they kick off an important six-game sequence with the opener of a three-game series against the host Oakland Athle...

(Reuters) - U.S. electric company Entergy Corp said power had been restored for more than half of its customers who faced an outage after Hurricane Ida. "Just eight days after being struck by one of t...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - The Reserve Bank of New Zealand's (RBNZ) Deputy Governor Geoff Bascand will leave the bank in January next year, it said in a statement on Tuesday. Bascand has been deputy governor ...

By Kantaro Komiya and Daniel Leussink TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's household spending grew less than expected in July as a resurgence of COVID-19 cases hindered consumer activity, throwing broader econom...

By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) - Fumio Kishida, a strong contender to succeed Yoshihide Suga as Japan's prime minister, called for a stimulus package of more than 30 trillion yen ($273 billion) to cu...

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has elevated a general long seen as a rising star in the country's powerful military and a major player in its missile programme to a position in the presidium of the rul...

By Amy Tennery NEW YORK (Reuters) - Her U.S. Open journey isn't over but Emma Raducanu has already written herself into the history books, reaching her first Grand Slam quarter-final to take up the ma...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Qatar's ruling emir and the visiting U.S. secretaries of state and defense discussed developments in Afghanistan and efforts to enhance security there, the emir's court said on Monda...