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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Shares in BHP Group Ltd. and Woodside Petroleum fell on Wednesday as investors digested details of the Perth-based oil and gas group's $40 billion merger with BHP's petroleum arm...

By Colin Packham CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia flew 26 people out of Afghanistan in its first rescue flight, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Wednesday, after Australian troops arrived to help w...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan is in close contact with a "small number" of Japanese nationals who are still in Afghanistan, and is seeking to secure their safty after Taliban militants took over Kabul, the ...

By Tom Westbrook SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The dollar hit a nine-month high against the euro and held broad gains elsewhere on Wednesday as investors have cut exposure to riskier currencies, mostly on vir...

SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) - Huawei Technologies' chairman said while U.S. sanctions have choked its smartphone business, it will not give up and plans to eventually return to the industry's "throne". ...

By Alun John HONG KONG (Reuters) - Asian shares held near year-to-date lows on Wednesday as overnight declines on Wall Street reinforced worries about the economic impact of the Delta coronavirus vari...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's former deputy premier, Ismail Sabri Yaakob, has emerged as a leading candidate to be the country's next prime minister ahead of a Wednesday afternoon deadline set b...

(Reuters) - Southeast Asian countries need more help securing COVID-19 vaccines, as the region struggles to contain record infections and deaths driven by the Delta variant, the International Federati...

By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) - Real estate heir Robert Durst said in a Los Angeles courtroom on Tuesday that he would lie under oath rather than admit killing someone, but that he had not lied during fi...

By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - The FBI said on Tuesday that it has opened an investigation into the suspected security breach of voting equipment in a western Colorado county, which Colorado's se...