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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's economic recovery will be stronger than expected this year but U.S. sanctions, a poor vaccination rate and the central bank's monetary tightening will all weigh on the grow...

By Colin Packham CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia will stop detaining asylum seekers in Papua New Guinea (PNG) at the end of December, the two countries said on Wednesday, as Canberra shuts one of two r...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said on Wednesday the economy has picked up, led by exports and the manufacturing sector, although the retail sector's recovery has been slower...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - New daily COVID-19 cases in Australia's Victoria and New South Wales states, the epicentres of the country's worst virus outbreak, fell on Wednesday as authorities look to start eas...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's new Prime Minister, Fumio Kishida, is struggling to find his footing with voters just two days after he was voted into office and launched his new government, multiple polls ...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - U.S. oil prices rose for a fifth day on Wednesday to their highest since 2014 amid global concerns about energy supply on signs of tightness in crude, natural gas and coal market...

By Sharay Angulo MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The Mexican unit of German automaker Volkswagen will extend a production stop at one of its segments in a plant at the central state of Puebla that produces th...

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand's central bank on Wednesday hiked interest rates for the first time in seven years and signalled further tightening to come, as it looks to cool its domestic economy...

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan Defence Minister Chiu Kuo-cheng said on Wednesday China will be capable of mounting a full scale invasion of the democratic island by 2025. Over a four day period beginning l...

By Rahman Muchtar and Heru Asprihanto MAROS, Indonesia (Reuters) - Genetic traces in the body of a young woman who died 7,000 years ago furnish the first clue that mixing between early humans in Indon...