Archive for the January 3, 2018
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Doctors across India went on strike Tuesday over a controversial bill that would allow practitioners of alternative therapies such as homeopathy to practise as medical doctors. More than 300,000 private and public doctors in the
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France plans to install landline phones in prison cells across the country in an ambitious bid to improve rehabilitation rates - and cut down on rampant cellphone trafficking behind bars. The justice ministry said Tuesday
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A fire destroyed a building and injured 16 people in the Bronx on Tuesday, just days after the worst fire in New York City in 25 years killed 12 people. "Our units arrived and were
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A record-shattering Arctic freeze kept its grip on much of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains on Tuesday but temperatures everywhere except the Northeast were expected to warm within 24 hours. Many school
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Iran on Tuesday reopened the last two border posts with Iraqi Kurdistan that it closed in response to an independence vote rejected by Baghdad and neighbouring countries, officials said. The Iranian consulate in the Kurdish
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The most-traded copper contract on the Shanghai Futures Exchange closed 0.6 percent lower at 55,250 yuan ($8,506.94) a tonne on Tuesday on bets that demand in top consumer China will improve in 2018, keeping prices
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Zinc scaled 10-year peaks on Tuesday as the market focused on looming deficits due to falling supplies, but gains were capped as prices are at levels which are likely to encourage investment in new output.
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Top oil exporter Saudi Arabia is expected to keep the February price for Arab Light crude steady, close to the highest in more than three years, while lowering prices for medium and heavy grades, a
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Oil prices hit mid-2015 highs in early trading on Tuesday but dipped to settle slightly lower as major pipelines in Libya and the UK restarted and US production soared to the highest level in more
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Brazil's government on Tuesday reduced its forecast for the country's 2017/18 sugar cane crop to 635.59 million tonnes, a 3.3 percent fall from the prior cycle, citing a reduction in planted area in the world's
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