KOROR, Palau - Empty hotel rooms, idle tour boats and shuttered travel agencies reveal widening fissures in the tiny Pacific nation of Palau, which is caught in an escalating diplomatic tug-of-war between China and Taiwan.
When Andrew Brunson saw a police summons on his door in late summer 2016, the U.S. evangelical pastor thought it was a routine appointment to sort out his residency papers in Turkey, his home for nearly a quarter of a century.
Secondary schools for girls across the United States are grappling with a difficult and increasingly common question: what is the best approach when a student or applicant no longer identifies as female or is going through a gender transition?
In the middle of Baghdad's busy commercial neighborhood of Karrada, where most retail outlets sell home appliances, shoppers can now also buy handguns and semi-automatic rifles legally for the first time in decades.
From creating 10 million jobs to building an Islamic welfare state and restoring Pakistan's tattered image abroad, new premier Imran Khan is facing a problem of his own making: runaway expectations raised by his lofty rhetoric.
Rescue workers found the bodies of three members of a family in the wreckage of Genoa's collapsed motorway bridge early on Sunday - the last people reported missing in the disaster, bringing the death toll to 43.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo has created a buzz on social media after a video sequence shown at the opening ceremony of the 18th Asian Games culminated with the 57-year-old leader roaring into Jakarta's main stadium on a powerful motorbike.
| STOCKS | BONDS | CURRENCIES | COMMODITIES |
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| Name | Yield | Change |
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| US 10YR |
+2.864
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+0.000 |
| DE 10YR |
+0.312
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+0.008 |
| JP 10YR |
+0.096
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+0.001 |
| Name | USD | EUR | JPY |
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| USD | 1 | 1.1437 | 0.0090 |
| EUR | 0.8740 | 1 | 0.0079 |
| JPY | 110.4900 | 126.3700 | 1 |
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| Gold |
1,176.50
USD
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+0.00
Exp: Aug 18
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| Copper |
2.62
USD
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+0.00
Exp: Aug 18
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| Crude Oil |
65.91
USD
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+0.00
Exp: Aug 18
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