The dollar held near a two-week high on Monday, shrugging off concerns about weakening global growth and data showing China's economy slowed sharply in 2018. The greenback has enjoyed its first weekly gain since mid-December,

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The Russian rouble hit a six-week high against the dollar on Monday, supported by higher oil prices and domestic month-end tax payments from major companies despite downward pressure from the central bank's resumption of forex

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Most Asian currencies eased against the dollar on Monday, as data showed China's economy slowed at the end of last year, underlining the need for more stimulus amid the months-long Sino-US trade war. The world's

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The commodity-linked Canadian dollar weakened against its US counterpart on Monday after data showed a slowdown in China's economy and the International Monetary Fund cut its world economic growth forecasts. At 9:40 a.m. (1440 GMT),

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The pound slipped on Monday as traders awaited a statement from Prime Minister Theresa May in parliament on her plans to break a deadlock over Brexit. The British currency had steadied above $1.28 levels since

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Senator Kamala Harris announced Monday that she is seeking to become the first African American woman to hold the office of US president, joining an already-crowded field of Democrats lining up to take on Donald

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A suicide car bomb attack on a military convoy in northeastern Syria on Monday killed five members of a Kurdish-led force accompanying US troops in an anti-jihadist coalition, a monitor said. The attack, claimed by

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Five demining experts killed in a weekend explosion in Yemen were from South Africa and several European countries, a Saudi-run organisation in charge of the project said Monday. The state-run King Salman Humanitarian Aid and

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China's population grew at a slower rate last year despite the abolition of the one-child policy, official data showed Monday, raising fears an ageing society will pile further pressure on an already slowing economy. China's

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An unusual set of celestial circumstances came together over Sunday night and the wee hours of Monday for sky watchers in Europe, Africa and the Americas, where the moon was fully obscured before lighting up

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