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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden is bringing in former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms for a senior White House role as he girds for battle in the midterm congressional elections in Novem...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - A measure of Australian consumer sentiment slid for a seventh straight month to match pandemic lows in June amid an outsized rise in interest rates and surging inflation. The Westpa...

By Laura Sanicola (Reuters) - Oil prices dropped on Wednesday on worries over fuel demand ahead of a U.S. Federal Reserve meeting which is expected to see the central bank to hike rates by at least 75...

By Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea may have spent as much as $642 million on its nuclear programme last year, according to anti-nuclear activists, as the impoverished country appears ready to...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's independent wage-setting body on Wednesday raised the national minimum wage by 5.2%, largely in line with inflation, as families tackle soaring living costs. The lowest-...

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's police are on maximum alert after detecting plans by radical groups to reject the results of a second presidential election vote on Sunday and commit violence across the ...

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand's house prices fell in May as tighter credit conditions, higher mortgage rates and increased housing supply affected the market, the Real Estate Institute of New Zea...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's de-facto central bank bought HK$9.255 billion ($1.18 billion) from the market in New York trading hours to stop the local currency weakening and breaking its peg to t...

(Reuters) - VTB, Russia's second-largest lender, does not think a proposed merger with fellow state-run bank Otkritie will take place before autumn, Kommersant newspaper said on Tuesday. Both banks ha...

By Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's core machinery orders surged unexpectedly in April, government data showed on Wednesday, as business spending remained robust despite uncertainties such as ...