NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil prices slipped on Wednesday from four-week highs after a surprising increase in U.S. crude inventories, even as top exporter Saudi Arabia reiterated its determination to end a three-year supply glut. The U.S. Energy Information Administration reported that crude...

NEW DELHI: Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Wednesday that US sanctions against Iran targeted the country's "malign behaviors" and were aimed at helping the Iranian people take control of their government. Tillerson told a New Delhi press conference after talks with India's Foreign...

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...