Author: Stephan Israel

By Rae Wee SINGAPORE, Feb 19 (Reuters) – Asian stocks rose on Thursday, supported by gains ⁠in ⁠technology giants on Wall Street, while lingering U.S.-Iran ⁠tensions kept oil prices supported and left gold underpinned by safe-haven flows. In currencies, the dollar firmed after minutes from the …Read More

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New dating of fossil skulls from the Early Pleistocene site of Yunxian in China suggests that early members of Homo erectus lived in eastern Asia nearly 1.77 million years ago, pushing the region’s human story back at least 670,000 years and strengthening the case for a rapid dispersal out of Africa.Read More

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