South Africa's rand firmed against the US dollar in late trade on Friday, as hopes for a rapprochement on trade between Beijing and Washington calmed investors' nerves. The currency had suffered through much of August,

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Emerging Asian currencies were mixed on Friday with easing Sino-US trade tensions helping export-driven currencies but broader concerns about global recession keeping other units under pressure. Almost all emerging Asian currencies were set to post

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Brazil's real lost almost 8% in August, making it one of the worst-performing currencies against the dollar, behind Argentina's peso, and marking its weakest month in four years. The slide, exacerbated by market positioning, aggressive

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The pound extended gains against the euro on Friday, putting it firmly on track for its biggest monthly rise since February as a broad-based drop in the single currency against its rivals encouraged investors to

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The Australian dollar took a knock on Friday as data underlined the dire state of the local home building sector, while the New Zealand dollar made another four-year low having fallen for five straight sessions.

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China on Friday executed a man convicted of raping and killing a female passenger last year while he was working as a driver for ride-hailing service Didi Chuxing, China's omnipresent answer to Uber. The company

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When a patient dies waiting for a kidney in the United States, they're generally considered the unfortunate victim of a growing donor shortage. But the reality is more troubling: in the vast majority of such

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Beijing told visiting Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte that its position on the South China Sea was not up for negotiation, a spokesman for the leader said Friday. China claims most of the contested sea, including

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Swedish climate change campaigner Greta Thunberg joined hundreds of other teenagers protesting outside the United Nations Friday in her first demonstration on US soil since arriving by zero-carbon yacht. "When we knew Greta would be

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Google security experts uncovered an "indiscriminate" hacking operation that targeted iPhones over a period of at least two years and used websites to implant malicious software to access photos, user locations and other data. In

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