Most Asian currencies edged up against the dollar on Monday, shrugging off threats from a ransomware attack that locked up more than 200,000 computers in more than 150 countries, and a missile test by North

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The Sri Lankan rupee ended slightly weaker on Monday as importer dollar demand surpassed early greenback sales by exporters, dealers said. Rupee forwards were active, with the spot-next ending at 152.60/70 per dollar, compared with

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Sterling rose towards $1.30 again on Monday, with figures showing that speculators have cut bearish bets on the currency by the most in more than a year and the third most on record. The overwhelmingly

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The New Zealand and Australian dollars got a bit of their mojo back on Monday when some commodity prices firmed and perceptions of China's economic health brightened. The New Zealand dollar rallied to $0.6876 from

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Philippine lawmakers on Monday rejected an impeachment complaint against President Rodrigo Duterte that accused him of a crime against humanity over the deaths of thousands of people killed in his war on drugs. The complaint

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Four Malian Red Cross employees have been kidnapped in the country's restive centre, the organisation said Monday, while a local official said negotiations were underway for their release.The Red Cross briefly suspended operations in the

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Palestinians marching to remember those displaced at the time of the 1948 founding of Israel clashed with Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank on Monday, leaving several wounded. Annual marches are held on May

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New French President Emmanuel Macron named centre-right lawmaker Edouard Philippe as prime minister on Monday in a further effort to splinter the country's traditional parties and redraw the political map. Philippe, a little known 46-year-old

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Gunmen believed to be Fulani cattle herders killed 20 farmers praying inside a mosque over a land dispute in central Nigeria, a police spokesman told AFP Monday. The attackers opened fire at the place of

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An air strike by the US-led coalition killed 23 civilians on Monday in a Syrian town held by the Islamic State group on the border with Iraq, a monitor said. The deaths came after 12

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