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At 9:35 a.m. EDT (1335 GMT), the Canadian dollar was trading 0.56 per cent higher at $1.3078 to the greenback, or 76.44 USA cents. The country's Consumer Pric...

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After facing protests on its platform, Twitter has temporarily banned the account of USA conspiracy theorist and radio host Alex Jones .Twitter confirmed to N...

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Turkish lira weakens to 5.86, USA warns of more sanctions

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Turkey promises U.S. tit-for-tat response

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Google not close to launching censored search engine in China

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