The US Dollar holds firm as US President Donald Trump walks back the threat to remove Fed Chair Jerome Powell.

Asian shares are mostly higher while U.S. futures slipped after President Donald Trump rocked Wall Street by saying he had “talked about the concept of firing” the head of the Federal Reserve.

The West is waging a full-scale war against Russia, and Moscow should respond in full, former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has said.Mr Medvedev, now deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, ...