Analysts still maintain a remarkably sanguine outlook for the Australian and New Zealand dollars in the latest Reuters poll, even as both carve out multi-year lows amid escalating trade wars and collapsing bond yields. The

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A police officer who arrested two six-year-old children in a Florida school has been suspended and the incident will be investigated, police said Monday. The grandmother of one of the children, Kaia Rolle, said she

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Four EU countries on Monday agreed a new temporary system to automatically distribute migrants arriving in Italy and Malta from across the Mediterranean which will be discussed by the full EU next month. The deal

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Iraq will join China's signature "Belt and Road" infrastructure investment project, the country's prime minister said Monday in Beijing. Adel Abdel Mahdi made the announcement in a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a

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Thousands of environmental protesters blocked traffic in central Washington on Monday to demand action on climate change in the capital of one of the main emitters of greenhouse gases. Small group of demonstrators gathered at

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China voiced support Monday for negotiations between the US and Taliban after Chinese officials met the Afghan militants in Beijing, two weeks after US President Donald Trump called off talks on a proposed deal with

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Two Turkish soldiers were killed on Monday in northern Iraq in an attack blamed on Kurdish militants, the defence ministry said. The soldiers died after an improvised explosive device (IED) "placed by PKK separatist terrorists

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A visibly angry Greta Thunberg berated world leaders at a UN climate summit on Monday, accusing them of betraying her generation by failing to tackle greenhouse gas emissions and asking "How dare you?" The impassioned

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Britain's opposition Labour Party descended into chaos on Monday as it narrowly rejected a grass-roots attempt to force leader Jeremy Corbyn to campaign to remain in the European Union and reverse the outcome of the

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Seven children died and scores were injured early Monday when a school building collapsed in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, in an accident blamed on shoddy construction. "We can confirm that we have seven fatalities," said

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