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The United States and China said on Monday they have agreed a deal to slash reciprocal tariffs as Washington and Beijing seek to end a trade war that has disrupted the global economy and set financial...

DUBAI, May 9 (Reuters) - Iran has agreed to hold a fourth round of nuclear talks with the United States on Sunday in Oman, the Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Friday, adding that the...

Roman Catholic cardinals were set to have returned to the Sistine Chapel on Thursday, resuming voting for a successor to the late Pope Francis in the largest and most geographically diverse conclave...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's security cabinet has approved a gradual expansion of the offensive against Hamas in Gaza, Israeli public broadcaster Kan reported on Monday, citing sources...

A fan attending the Wednesday night game between the Chicago Cubs and the host Pittsburgh Pirates fell out of the right field stands during the seventh inning and landed on the PNC Park warning track...

The head of Europe's Airbus called for a return to tariff-free trading for aerospace on Wednesday, joining a chorus of U.S. industry leaders seeking relief from a growing tariff war in which Airbus...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is preparing international legal action over India's suspension of a key river water-sharing treaty, a government minister told Reuters, as tensions intensify between the...

The dollar recouped some of its losses on Tuesday, supported by reports that the U.S. administration may ease planned tariffs, although investor caution lingered over whether a meaningful...

U.S. President Donald Trump asserted in an interview published on Friday that tariff negotiations were underway with China, but Beijing denied any talks were taking place, the latest in a series of...

The U.S. government is considering cutting its tariffs on Chinese imports in a bid to de-escalate tensions with Beijing, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. The China tariffs are likely to...

VATICAN CITY: No one knows who the world's Catholic cardinals will choose to succeed Pope Francis as the new leader of the global Catholic Church.But for those watching attentively, there are...

China on Monday accused Washington of abusing tariffs and warned countries against striking a broader economic deal with the United States at its expense, ratcheting up its rhetoric in a spiralling...

GUANGZHOU - The rapid rise of ultra-fast fashion retailer Shein has been so key to the fortunes of a group of urban villages on the outskirts of China's southern metropolis of Guangzhou that they have...

China has ordered its airlines not to take any further deliveries of Boeing jets in response to the U.S. decision to impose 145% tariffs on Chinese goods, Bloomberg News said on Tuesday, citing people...

Indian fugitive Mehul Choksi, the jeweller accused of being involved in an alleged fraud of nearly $2 billion against Punjab National Bank in 2018, has been arrested in Belgium, a source with India's...

CAIRO: Two Israeli missiles hit a building inside a main Gaza hospital on Sunday, destroying the emergency and reception department and damaging other structures, medics said, in a strike which Israel...

Chinese companies that sell products on Amazon are preparing to hike prices for the U.S. or quit that market due to President Donald Trump's unprecedented tariff hikes, sellers and the head of China's...

Pakistan's national carrier has posted an annual profit for the first time in more than two decades ahead of a second attempt by the government to sell the airline, the country's defence minister...

Cutting funding for emergency food assistance could result in a "death sentence" for millions of people, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Monday.The organization said it was...

Fast-fashion retailer Shein is facing opposition from the Chinese government over its plans to shift some production out of the country, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with...