Climate change activists chanting slogans and waving banners demonstrated outside Brazil's embassy in London on Friday, urging President Jair Bolsonaro to do more to halt the fires in the Amazon rainforest. The protests came as

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Thousands of people held hands across Hong Kong late Friday in a dazzling, neon-framed recreation of a pro-democracy "Baltic Way" protest against Soviet rule three decades ago. The city's skyscraper-studded harbourfront as well as several

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A rare homemade bomb attack in the occupied West Bank killed an Israeli teen and seriously wounded her father and brother Friday as they visited a spring near a Jewish settlement, officials said. Israeli security

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A former US marine who was arrested in Moscow on espionage charges said Friday he had been injured by guards in the prison where he is being held awaiting trial. "I was injured in the

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New Zealand's parliament speaker is perhaps better practised at quieting MPs than calming babies, but images of the powerful politician doing exactly that went viral this week. Trevor Mallard, the speaker of the country's House

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ICE cotton futures fell over 1% on Friday on fears of escalation in a trade spat between the United States and China after US President Donald Trump threatened to counter a new round of retaliatory

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Copper prices fell to the lowest in more than two years as an escalating trade conflict between China and the United States, faltering Chinese economic growth and a weakening yuan undermined the outlook for demand.

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Oil prices fell on Friday after China unveiled retaliatory tariffs against about $75 billion worth of US goods including crude oil, another escalation of a protracted trade dispute between the world's two largest economies. Brent

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Tokyo Commodity Exchange (TOCOM) futures slipped for a fourth straight session on Friday amid oversupply concerns and as investors unwound long positions for near-term contracts, leading to a second weekly decline. The benchmark TOCOM rubber

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Malaysian palm oil futures climbed to a fresh six-month peak on Friday, charting a fourth straight session of gains on expectations that production will be lower than initially forecast. The benchmark palm oil contract for

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