TOKYO (Reuters) - Asian shares edged higher on Wednesday, while U.S. Treasury yields and the dollar got a lift following a report that Republican senators were leaning toward John Taylor to be the next Federal Reserve chief. European stock futures STXEc1 were down 0.2 percent, pointing...

 Iraqi forces are about to launch an offensive to recapture the last patch of Iraq's territory still in the hands of Daesh (ISIS), a military statement said on Wednesday. "Your security forces are now coming to liberate you," said leaflets dropped by the Iraqi air force on the...

French President Emmanuel Macron has disappointed rights activists when he refused to publicly call out visiting Egyptian leader Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi for his country's dismal human rights track record. President Emmanuel Macron has brushed off calls to "lecture" visiting Egyptian...

(Reuters) - The Kurdistan Regional Government in a statement early on Wednesday offered to freeze the results of an earlier referendum on independence as part of an offer to defuse the crisis with the Iraqi central government in Baghdad. The statement also called for an immediate...