El Nino hammering Peru anchovy fishing: industry officials
Peru, the world's largest catcher of anchovy, is facing a "devastating blow" from warming seas that have gutted production, sparking an unemployment crisis, industry officials told AFP.
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Oil extends gains, stocks mostly down as Trump issues fresh Iran warning
Oil prices jumped more than one percent Tuesday amid fears of a fresh bout of military exchanges between the United States and Iran following a flare-up at the weekend and Donald Trump's warning that he will hit the country "hard".
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Mass Russian barrage kills 12 in Kyiv
Russia launched a barrage of drones and ballistic missiles at Kyiv and its surrounding region overnight, killing at least 12 people and wounding 21, Ukraine said Tuesday, hitting the capital as children were set to return to school after the summer.
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ThinkMarkets Expands Weekend Trading Offering, Launches Weekend League Competition
ThinkMarkets, a global multi-asset CFD broker, today confirmed the launch of Weekend League, a client trading competition built around its weekend trading offering, with further expansion of that offering in development.
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PineX Capital Launches MetaTrader 5 as Prop Firm Expands Trading Platform Offering
The growing prop firm has added MetaTrader 5 to its platform offering, giving its international trader community more choice in how they trade.
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Tibet activists accuse China of downplaying floods
Exiled Tibetans and advocacy groups have accused China of heavily underreporting the death toll from devastating flooding in border regions with Nepal, claims Beijing rejected as "malicious smearing and sensationalism".
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Women survivors face sanitation woes in Nepal relief camp
Scores of women queued at a school sheltering Nepal flood victims, jostling to receive personal-care supplies, as concerns over sanitation and menstrual hygiene mount days after the catastrophic disaster.
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Afghanistan war victims left 'without justice', UN says
Most civilian victims of Afghanistan's 2001-2021 war have been left "without justice, reparation or even acknowledgement" of their suffering, the United Nations said Tuesday, with one man in Kabul telling AFP "the world has forgotten us".
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Oil extends gains, stocks mixed as Trump issues fresh Iran warning
Oil prices extended gains Tuesday amid fears of a fresh bout of military exchanges between the United States and Iran following a flare-up at the weekend and Donald Trump's warning that he will hit the country "hard".
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Iran president offers US olive branch before Putin meeting
Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian on Tuesday vowed to match any US move to return to a June deal aimed at ending their war, as he prepares to meet Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at a regional summit.
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