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DUBAI (Reuters) -Shots were fired at a tanker in the Gulf on Wednesday in an interaction with an unspecified countrys security forces, a British maritime body said, the latest incident in a series of seizures or attacks on commercial ships in the Gulf since 2019.

DUBAI (Reuters) - Shots were fired at a tanker in sensitive Gulf waters on Wednesday but the vessel and crew are safe, a British maritime security bod...

JENIN, West Bank (Reuters) -Palestinian militant fighters paraded in Jenin on Wednesday and angry crowds confronted senior Palestinian Authority officials, accusing them of weakness, after one of the largest Israeli military operations in the occupied West Bank in years. The two-day operation, which the Israeli military said targeted infrastructure and weapons depots of militant factions in the Jenin refugee camp, left a trail of wrecked streets and burned-out cars and sparked fury across the Ar

BISHKEK (Reuters) - Kyrgyzstans Constitutional Court has ruled that adults can choose to use middle names based on the name of their mother rather than their father, in a surprise nod to gender equality in traditionally patriarchal Central Asia.

Chinas yuan finished the domestic session at a one-week high against the dollar on Tuesday, as the central bank continued to lend support to prevent the yuan from weakening too fast and too far. ...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - European Central Bank policymaker Joachim Nagel reaffirmed on Monday the ECB had a way to go in raising interest rates and said it should also shrink its balance sheet in the coming years even if pushback against more credit tightening grows.

Israel linked on Monday its pending decision on recognising the Moroccan claim on Western Sahara to Morocco hosting a repeatedly postponed forum of foreign ministers involved in a U.S.-sponsored regional normalisation drive. Morocco upgraded ties with Israel in 2020, encouraged by then U.S. President Donald Trump, who recognised Rabat's rule over Western Sahara, where the Algeria-backed Polisario Front demands an independent state. Trump's successor, President Joe Biden, has not foll...

LONDON (Reuters) - The Bank of England said on Monday that banks may be underestimating their exposures to private equity and private credit markets at a time of rising interest rates.

Sri Lanka could exit bankruptcy by September, President Ranil Wickremesinghe said on Friday, signalling a turnaround for the country which is emerging from its worst financial crisis in decades. ...

ROME (Reuters) - Italy's governing coalition parties will suspend for four months the parliamentary debate over the ratification of a reform to a euro...