By Ahmad Ghaddar, Vladimir Soldatkin and Ernest Scheyder VIENNA (Reuters) – OPEC scrambled on Thursday to agree on raising oil output, with Saudi Arabia warning of shortages but Iran holding

By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) – States may force online retailers to collect potentially billions of dollars in sales taxes, the U.S. Supreme Court said in a major ruling on

By Idrees Ali, Richard Cowan and Steve Holland WASHINGTON/MCALLEN, Texas (Reuters) – The U.S. military has been asked to get ready to house up to 20,000 immigrant children, officials said

By Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s core inflation remained subdued in May, yet again highlighting how far off the central bank is in hitting its 2 percent price goal

By Doina Chiacu, Edward Taylor and Yawen Chen WASHINGTON/FRANKFURT/BEIJING (Reuters) – An increasingly shrill exchange of words between the United States and China that is threatening to trigger a global

By Se Young Lee and Yawen Chen BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s commerce ministry on Thursday accused the United States of being temperamental over bilateral trade issues, and warned that the

By Roberta Rampton and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday backed down and abandoned his policy of separating immigrant children from their parents on the

By Praveen Menon and Joseph Sipalan LANGKAWI, Malaysia (Reuters) – Former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak says he shouldn’t be blamed for the multi-billion-dollar 1MDB scandal, and declares he knows

By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) – China, Britain and the European Union lamented on Wednesday Washington’s decision to withdraw from the U.N. Human Rights Council as Western countries began looking

By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – South Sudan’s president and rebel leader met on Wednesday for the first time since 2016, when a peace deal collapsed and fighting re-erupted