BOGOTA - An aircraft with 81 people aboard, including a Brazilian football team, has crashed in central Colombia, and rescuers are moving survivors from the site, the country's civil aviation association says.
FRANKFURT German airline Lufthansa cancelled hundreds of flights on Tuesday as its pilots started two days of strikes amid a long-running pay dispute that has cost the German flagship carrier hundreds of millions of euros since early 2014.
PARIS French foreign affairs minister Jean-Marc Ayrault called on Tuesday for an immediate United Nations Security Council meeting to discuss the situation in the Syrian city of Aleppo, which has been devastated by fighting.
HAVANA Leaders of Cuba's leftist allies and other developing countries descend on Havana on Tuesday for a mass rally commemorating Fidel Castro, the rebel who seized power in a 1959 revolution and ruled the island for half a century.
SYDNEY The U.S. dollar took a breather on Tuesday as global bonds steadied from their recent rout, while equities flatlined as political risk resurfaced in Europe ahead of a referendum in Italy this weekend.
BANGKOK Parliament will invite Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn to become the new king following the death of revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej last month, the president of the legislative body said on Tuesday.
LONDON/FRANKFURT Tata Steel and Thyssenkrupp are looking at reducing the size of Britain's largest steel plant in Port Talbot, Wales, industry sources said, as the two firms press ahead with plans to merge their European steel operations and deal with the overcapacity afflicting the industry.
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| Name | Yield | Change |
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| GB 10YR |
+1.391
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+0.008 |
| DE 10YR |
+0.202
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+0.012 |
| JP 10YR |
+0.015
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+0.001 |
| Name | GBP | USD | EUR |
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| GBP | 1 | 0.8061 | 0.8534 |
| USD | 1.2405 | 1 | 1.0587 |
| EUR | 1.1708 | 0.9447 | 1 |
| Index | Last | Chg |
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| Gold |
1,191.90
USD
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+1.10
Exp: Dec2016
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| Copper |
2.62
USD
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-0.04
Exp: Nov2016
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| Brent Crude |
47.85
USD
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-0.39
Exp: Nov2016
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