Archive for the February 8, 2019
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Chicago Board of Trade soyabean futures closed higher on Tuesday after the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) confirmed more export sales to China, traders said. CBOT March soyabeans settled up 1-3/4 cents at $9.20-1/4 per
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The Karachi Port handled 140,054 tonnes of cargo comprising 117,720 tonnes of import cargo and 22,334 tonnes of export cargo including 9,609 loaded and empty containers during the last 24 hours ending at 0700 hours
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After maintaining a stable trend for a long time, the official spot rate dropped by Rs 100 to Rs 8,600 on the cotton market on Thursday in the process of modest trading activity, dealers said.
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Jordan's state grains buyer purchased 60,000 tonnes of hard milling wheat to be sourced from optional origins, traders said, in a tender for up to 120,000 tonnes that closed on Tuesday. The wheat was bought
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Chicago Board of Trade wheat futures closed mixed on Tuesday as traders squared positions ahead of a key government crop report scheduled for release on Friday, traders said. CBOT March soft red winter wheat was
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The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Afghan authorities to promptly investigate and bring to justice those responsible for yesterday's killing of two journalists in Taloqan, the capital city of northern Takhar province. Shafiqullah Arya
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Recent gains by Kurdish-led forces in Syria have shrunk the Islamic State group's "caliphate" to less than one percent of its original size, the US-led coalition said on Thursday. Major General Christopher Ghika, the coalition's
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Demonstrators chanting "No war on Venezuela!" descended on the Bank of England in London on Thursday, demanding the release of the country's 31 tons of gold deposited there. Almost a hundred protesters gathered outside the
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Venezuelan soldiers are starving and the military is "degraded", but for now at least the armed forces remain loyal to President Nicolas Maduro, a top US admiral said Thursday. "The rank and file are starving,
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EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini called Thursday for a peaceful solution to the crisis in Venezuela to avoid a "chaotic and dangerous" unravelling of a tense political standoff between President Nicolas Maduro and his
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