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Oil prices plunged about 5% to an eight-month low on Friday as the U.S. dollar hit its strongest level in more than two decades and on fears rising interest rates will tip major economies into recession, cutting demand for oil. Brent futures fell $4.31, or 4.8%, to settle at $86.15 …

Countries on the front lines of the climate crisis are fed up. During the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations this week, low-lying island nation Vanuatu stepped up a fight to get the world to focus on combating global warming by calling for a fossil fuel nonproliferation …

The number of dengue fever cases recorded in Vietnam so far this year is only slightly lower than the whole of 1998, when 300,000 cases and 400 deaths were recorded. The situation is rendered more worrisome because the virus has been found in more localities and the country’s healthcare sector …