US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday warned that Russian President Vladimir Putin posed a threat to democracies worldwide as he arrived in Slovakia, the latest stop on a Central European charm offensive aimed

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Exhausted families trudged out of the Islamic State group's last bastion in eastern Syria Tuesday, as Kurdish-led forces boxed holdout jihadists into an ever-shrinking pocket. Hundreds fled at night but hundreds more during the day

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Iran Tuesday that Israeli missiles can travel "very far", on the eve of a conference in Poland about peace and security in the Middle East. Speaking during a visit to

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An Afghan mujahideen commander who fought the Soviets and rose to become the country's first president after the Red Army retreated has died aged 93, his family said Tuesday. Sibghatullah Mojaddedi, who commanded a mujahideen

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Nato is planning for "more Russian missiles" after the collapse of a landmark Cold War arms treaty, but will not deploy new nuclear warheads in Europe, the organisation's chief said Tuesday. Fears are growing of

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ICE cotton futures fell to their lowest level in more than a year on Monday, dragged down by a stronger dollar and a bearish global supply and demand report from the US Department of Agriculture

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Zinc fell for a third session on Tuesday, hitting its lowest in more than two weeks as the dollar held near a two-month high and investors remained concerned about global economic growth. In wider markets,

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US crude oil output is expected to rise 1.45 million barrels per day (bpd) this year and 790,000 bpd more next year, bringing total output to 13.2 million bpd, the Energy Information Administration said in

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Oil prices were up more than 2 percent on Tuesday on steep OPEC production cuts, with its de-facto leader Saudi Arabia planning to drop March crude output by more than a half a million barrels

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Benchmark Tokyo rubber futures jumped on Tuesday, tracking strong Shanghai futures, as falling output in major rubber-producing regions boosted prices. Tokyo Commodity Exchange (TOCOM) futures, which set the tone for rubber prices in Southeast Asia,

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