The dollar exited active New York trading on Tuesday largely flat against major currencies, with dealers unwilling to take big bets ahead of the Federal Reserve's interest rates decision on Wednesday. Although dealers said the

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The Indian rupee jumped half a percent to a four-week high on Wednesday after Standard & Poor's, citing India's improved external finances and growth prospects, raised the country's foreign currency debt rating by a notch.

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The Hong Kong dollar was trapped at a four-month low on Wednesday, but discounts on forwards rates widened as some players booked profits after recent sharp moves. The local currency was trading at 7.7998/99 per

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Ukraine's West-leaning President Viktor Yushchenko plans to join President George W. Bush for a Nato summit on February 22 to study broadening Kiev's ties with the alliance, Nato sources and envoys said on Wednesday. They

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The CIA is publishing a series of classified reports revising its pre-war intelligence assessments of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, an intelligence official said on Tuesday. A January 18 report, titled "Iraq: No Large-Scale Chemical

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Nepal's King Gyanendra on Wednesday swore in a new cabinet dominated by royalists, a day after he fired the government and seized power in a move that sparked international condemnation. India, the biggest regional power,

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The United States on Wednesday said North Korea's nuclear programs and sales of sensitive technology posed "a threat to global peace" and urged Pyongyang to return to the negotiating table. "North Korea's nuclear programs and

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Influential Sunni clerics on Wednesday branded Iraq's election illegitimate, dampening hopes for reconciliation among the country's sects, as the electoral commission admitted there were flaws in the landmark vote. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice

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Militants from the ousted Taleban armed with rockets and machineguns attacked a US-led military outpost in south-eastern Afghanistan Wednesday, a US military official said. There were no casualties on either side during the short battle

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Crimes against civilians in Sudan's troubled region of Darfur are continuing while aid workers are "terrorised" and subject to arbitrary arrest, the United Nations envoy for Sudan said Wednesday. Jan Pronk made the bleak assessment

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