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Cotton futures are falling lower at Wednesday’s midday, as contracts are down 35 to 40 points at midday. The US dollar index is up $0.097 so far on the day to $96.345, with crude oil futures $0.23 lower. The Seam reported 909 bales sold on Tuesday at an average price...

Soybeans are trading with 5 to 6 ¼ cent losses at Wednesday’s midday. The cmdtyView national average Cash Bean price is down 5 1/4 cents at $9.67 1/4. Soymeal futures are down 80 cents to 20 cents higher so far at midday. Soy Oil futures are giving back the Tuesday...

Amid a recent spike in violence by the so-called Islamic State (IS) group and its offshoots, experts warn that it could be making a comeback globally.

Cotton futures are trading with contracts 34 to 75 points higher across the nearbys at midday on Tuesday. The US dollar index is down $0.635 so far on the day to $96.265, with crude oil futures $1.26 higher. NASS reported the US cotton crop 50% with bolls opening as of...

France repatriated three women and 10 children from Syrian prisons for alleged jihadists, anti-terror prosecutors said on Tuesday. More than five years after the Islamic State group's territorial defeat in the region, tens of thousands of people are still held in Kurdish-run camps and prisons in northeastern Syria – many…

Cotton futures are showing slight losses across most contracts on Monday, with contracts down 4 to 17 points. The US dollar index is down $0.171 on the day to $97.365, with crude oil futures $0.61 higher. Weekly CFTC data indicated spec traders adding 2,536 contracts to their net short position...

Three French women including a niece of notorious jihadist propagandists went on trial in Paris on Monday, accused of travelling to the Middle East to join the Islamic State group and taking their eight children with them.

The trial of the three women, all from the Clain family, opened in Paris on Monday. They are accused of being members of the so-called Islamic State terrorist group.

Three French women - members of the Clain family who converted to fundamentalist Islam and travelled to Iraq and Syria to join the Islamic State armed group - go on trial Monday in Paris on charges of terrorist criminal association.

A University of Pennsylvania researcher is leading an effort to connect photos taken of the Yazidi population in northern Iraq in the 1930s with descendants who lost much of their history in the 2014 Islamic State attacks

Cotton futures are down 46 points in the thinly traded nearby October, with other contracts up 4 to 8 points at midday. The US dollar index is up $0.097 on the day to $97.625 with crude oil futures $0.38 lower. The monthly Cotton Ginnings report showed 338,200 RB of cotton...