A kind of dullness prevailed on the local cotton market on Wednesday as mills showed not so much interest in new buying, dealers said. The official spot rate was unchanged at Rs 8,600, they added.

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ICE Canadian canola futures tumbled on Tuesday for a third straight session, with the front five months hitting contract lows on technical selling and fears of slowing export demand from China, traders said. Market pressured

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Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) wheat futures fell for the second consecutive session on Tuesday to a 10-month low as cheaper global supplies weighed on the US market. CBOT May soft red winter wheat fell

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Former president of Seychelles France-Albert Rene, who seized power in a coup and stayed in power for nearly three decades, died on Wednesday aged 83, state television said. Rene, who died in hospital, was the

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Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday said his re-election was "free and fair", after his beaten rival denounced the results as a "sham" and promised a legal challenge that could dominate politics for weeks. The

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The number of British children taking foreign language classes has nearly halved since 2000, a BBC analysis showed on Wednesday, with those learning French and German down nearly two-thirds. The study was published with the

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A hurtling locomotive crashed, derailed and caught fire at Cairo's main train station on Wednesday, killing at least 20 people in the latest disaster to strike Egypt's rundown railways. The country's transportation minister resigned hours

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The United States reaffirmed Wednesday that it will keep sanctions on Russia until it "returns control of Crimea to Ukraine," nearly five years after Moscow annexed the peninsula. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said

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Nepal's tourism minister Rabindra Adhikari was among seven people killed Wednesday when a helicopter crashed in the country's hilly east, officials said. Rescue workers retrieved the bodies of Adhikari, 49, the pilot and five other

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Indonesian rescuers scrambled Wednesday to find dozens buried in the collapse of an illegal gold mine that killed at least four people, the disaster agency said. The effort to save survivors at the remote site

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