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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's currency policy won't immediately change after the United States removed the country from its monitoring list, Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said on Tuesday, noting that t...

SYDNEY, June 20 (Reuters) - Australia's central bank's decision to hike interest rates in June was "finely balanced" but judged necessary to ensure high inflation did not become embedded in wage and p...

SHANGHAI/SINGAPORE (Reuters) -China cut its lending benchmarks on Tuesday in the first such easing in 10 months, as authorities seek to shore up a slowing recovery in the world's second-largest econom...

(Reuters) - Ukraine said on Monday that Hungary has been ignoring requests for contact with prisoners of war that Kyiv said had been secretly transferred from Russia and called the move an act of self...

By Katya Golubkova TOKYO (Reuters) - Oil prices were mixed on Tuesday ahead of a decision on lending benchmarks by China, with the world's second-largest economy widely expected to cut key rates to sh...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday the United States and China were continuing to discuss the release of three U.S. citizens who are detained in China. "I don...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - New Zealand said on Tuesday it would examine the profitability of the country's banks and investigate whether competition in the sector was working well for consumers. The banking s...

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday urged Israel to halt and reverse what he described as troubling and alarming decisions on settlement activity in the occupi...

By Gloria Dickie (Reuters) - Glaciers in Asia's Hindu Kush Himalaya could lose up to 75% of their volume by century's end due to global warming, causing both dangerous flooding and water shortages for...

(Reuters) - A tropical wave located several hundred miles southwest of the Cape Verde Islands has a 50% chance of developing into a cyclone in the next 48 hours, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NH...