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  • Mandela responding well to treatment for lung infection

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    • Dec 12th, 2012
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    Anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela has been suffering from a lung infection but is responding to treatment, the government said Tuesday, bringing some emotional relief to South Africans about the aging statesman's health. "Doctors have concluded

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  • Mali Prime Minister quits

    Malian Prime Minister Cheick Modibo Diarra quit Tuesday under pressure from influential former putschists who are opposed to a military intervention to drive out Islamists occupying the country's north. France and the European Union urged

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  • Crisis widens job market gender gap for women: ILO

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    • Dec 12th, 2012
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    Women have always faced higher unemployment rates than men, and the sluggish global economy in recent years has only made the situation worse, the International Labour Organisation said Tuesday. On a global scale, women saw

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  • Shanghai copper down

    The most-traded March copper contract on the Shanghai Futures Exchange edged down 0.14 percent to close at 57,900 yuan ($9,300) a tonne on Tuesday as traders took profits after prices hit a near two-month top

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  • Copper declines

    Copper fell on Tuesday, as disappointing US trade deficit data prompted traders to take profits, but the metal was underpinned by a weaker dollar and faster growth in factory output in big metals consumer China.

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  • Brent crude moves higher ahead of Opec meeting

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    • Dec 12th, 2012
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    Brent crude futures edged up on Tuesday in choppy trading as Opec production declines and a weaker dollar lent support to oil ahead of Opec's policy meeting this week and the latest snapshots on oil

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  • New York cotton settles lower

    US cotton futures settled lower on Monday as late producer and technical selling hobbled an earlier rally to fresh three-week highs, with nervous investors sitting on the sidelines ahead of the US government's monthly crop

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  • Tokyo rubber dips

    Key TOCOM rubber futures fell slightly on Tuesday, retreating from a two-month high, as optimism about demand after strong output data in China over the weekend withered and weighed on Shanghai futures. But price falls

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  • Rotterdam vegetable oil prices

    Tuesday's Rotterdam vegetable oil prices at 1700 GMT. SOYOIL EU degummed: euro tonne fob ex-mill December 2012 unquoted January 2013 911.00 -7.00 February 2013/April 2013 918.00 -6.00 May 2013/July 2013 895.00 -5.00. RAPEOIL Dutch/EU: euro

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  • Rotterdam vegetable oil prices

    Tuesday's Rotterdam vegetable oil prices at 1700 GMT. SOYOIL EU degummed: euro tonne fob ex-mill December 2012 unquoted January 2013 911.00 -7.00 February 2013/April 2013 918.00 -6.00 May 2013/July 2013 895.00 -5.00. RAPEOIL Dutch/EU: euro

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