The dollar rose to a three-week high against a basket of currencies on Thursday, helped by continued tightness in US money markets, while heightened political tensions and a gloomy economic outlook weighed on the euro

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The Australian dollar was marginally up on Friday, not far from a 3-1/2-week trough touched on Wednesday, as investors waited for a policy meeting next week where the central bank is widely expected to ease

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Most Asian currencies were little changed on Friday as investors weighed the political situation in the United States and waited for developments on the US-China trade war front. A whistle-blower report released on Thursday said

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Sterling was on track for its worst weekly performance since early August after a Bank of England policymaker said the central bank may well need to cut interest rates in the likely scenario that high

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The rand dropped against the US dollar on Friday, knocked by reports that US President Donald Trump's administration was weighing new restrictions on China, a major trading partner for South Africa. At 1440 GMT, the

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Britain's Prince Harry on Friday paid an "emotional" visit to a street in Angola that was once a minefield visited by his mother Diana shortly before her death. Princess Diana walked across a cleared minefield

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Three Senegalese crew were killed and a fourth was injured when a combat helicopter used by United Nations peacekeepers in the Central African Republic crashed in the west of the country, the UN force said

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Hundreds of thousands of people from across Senegal converged on the capital Dakar on Friday for the inauguration of a huge mosque, claimed to be the largest in West Africa. Muslim faithful arrived by bus,

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The US military command for Africa announced Friday it killed 17 suspected Islamic State group jihadists in southern Libya, in the third such strike in a week. "At this time, it is assessed the airstrike

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Police in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna have rescued more than 300 male students being held at an Islamic school where many had been tortured and sexually abused, a police spokesman said Friday. Officers

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