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While the move will be Japan‘s first interest rate hike in 17 years, it still keeps rates stuck around zero as a fragile economic recovery forces the central bank to go...

‘s Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi started a whistle-stop tour of and with a series of meetings with New Zealand ministers in Wellington in Monday, before he travels on...

Conservative Australian politicians are calling on the government to act after a bill to force TikTok to divest from Chinese ownership passed the United States’ lower house last week. On...

Japan’s central bank raised interest rates on Tuesday for the first time since 2007, ending the world’s last negative rates regime on early signs of robust wage gains this year....

Asian football is back on the road to the 2026 World Cup in the United States, Canada and Mexico, a month after Qatar retained the continental crown on home soil...

Joe Biden’s re-election campaign raised more than $53 million (£42 million) in February and has $155 million cash on hand after pulling in the most grassroots fundraising since the campaign’s...

Nobel Prize-winning Canadian economist Robert Mundell, often referred to as the “father of the euro,” died at his palatial home in Italy without a will in 2021. Now his heirs...

On paper, at least, it must have looked so straightforward. Vladimir Putin wanted to fix a presidential election to show the world that ordinary Russians love and admire him and...

Thousands of believers in extra-terrestrial life form descended on the quiet French town of Limoges on Saturday, hoping to connect with the aliens they are so certain exist. Several thousand...

Vladimir Putin won another six years as Russian president on Sunday in an election in which he faced no competition, and which was overshadowed by widespread protests against his rule....