The Australian dollar bounced from more than 10-year lows on Wednesday against its US counterpart, which slipped after data showed factory activity in the country shrank last month to its weakest in over a decade.

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The Russian rouble recovered from three-week lows against the US dollar on Wednesday, shrugging off a deeper slide in oil prices and paring earlier losses along with other emerging market currencies. At 1446 GMT, the

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Some Asian currencies inched higher on Wednesday as decade-low US manufacturing activity data kept the dollar subdued, while South Korea's won weakened after North Korea fired a ballistic missile. The data on factory activity hit

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Sterling rebounded from earlier lows on Wednesday as hedge funds covered some of their short bets against the currency after Prime Minister Boris Johnson made a final Brexit offer to the European Union. The pound

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A special ship designed to clean the oceans has harvested its first plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch since setting sail from San Francisco last month, its Dutch inventor said Wednesday. The project by

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Several people were killed when a World War II bomber crashed at an airport in the northeastern US state of Connecticut Wednesday, US media and officials said. The Boeing B-17 aircraft crashed at Bradley International

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Popular protests multiplied across Iraq on Wednesday as thousands of demonstrators braved live fire and tear gas in rallies that have left nine dead in 24 hours. The demonstrations led authorities to seal off the

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Malian troops backed by foreign allies on Wednesday launched a hunt for scores of comrades listed as missing after one of the deadliest attacks in a seven-year-old jihadist insurgency. At least 25 troops were killed

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A freakish heat wave is making early autumn feel like the dog days of summer in much of the southern and eastern US, with forecasters predicting Wednesday that temperatures could get close to triple digits.

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Flash-mob rallies broke out in Hong Kong Wednesday as anger mounted over police shooting a teenage protester who attacked officers in a dramatic escalation of the violent unrest that has engulfed the territory for months.

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