SEOUL/WASHINGTON -South Korea said it was preparing fresh military drills with its ally the United States and ramping up its ballistic missile defences in response to North Korea's sixth and most powerful nuclear test a day earlier.
Nearly 90,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh since violence erupted in Myanmar in August, pressuring scarce resources of aid agencies and communities already helping hundreds of thousands of refugees from previous spasms of violence in Myanmar.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday she would seek an end to Turkey's membership talks with the European Union in an apparent shift of her position during a televised debate weeks before a German election.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Sunday challenged Congress to raise the government's debt limit in order to free up relief spending for Hurricane Harvey, a disaster that the governor of Texas said had caused up to $180 billion (£139.05 billion) in damage.
Syria's army and its allies raced towards their enclave in the Euphrates city of Deir al-Zor after a rapid advance on Sunday, seeking to relieve it after years of Islamic State siege as jihadist defences suddenly collapsed.
One of Cambodia's most stridently independent newspapers, The Cambodia Daily, published its last edition on Monday with the headline "Descent Into Outright Dictatorship" as it closed amid a crackdown on critics of Prime Minister Hun Sen.
German explosives experts defused a massive World War Two bomb in the financial capital of Frankfurt on Sunday after tens of thousands of people were evacuated from their homes.
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| Name | Yield | Change |
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| GB 10YR |
+1.061
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+0.003 |
| DE 10YR |
+0.367
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-0.012 |
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+0.000
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+0.000 |
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| GBP | 1 | 0.7717 | 0.9150 |
| USD | 1.2953 | 1 | 1.1857 |
| EUR | 1.0921 | 0.8431 | 1 |
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| Gold |
1,325.10
USD
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+8.90
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| Copper |
3.10
USD
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+0.02
Exp: Sep 17
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| Brent Crude |
52.75
USD
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+0.00
Exp: Sep 17
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Johnson Service Group Chief Executive Chris Sander is set to retire in the first half of next year, the textile rental company said, and forecast that results for the current year would be slightly ahead of current market expectations.
A Philippine government agency on Monday said a murder complaint would be filed against policemen who shot dead a teenager accused of robbery, the second such case in just over a week against police from the same part of the capital, Manila.
