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Nearly 900 years ago, China’s Song dynasty government, at the time the most advanced civilization in the world, issued the world’s first centralized paper currency. When Marco Polo encountered money made from the “bark of…

London Stock ExchangeToby Melville | ReutersThe pan-European Stoxx 600 was down 0.8% by early afternoon, with autos falling 3% to lead losses as most sectors and major bourses traded in negative territory. Oil and gas shares bucked the…

This week offers one of Africa’s most significant votes this year as Kenyans go to the polls on Tuesday to decide a new president.The contest is between the current deputy president William Ruto, 55, and Raila Odinga, a 77-year-old…

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