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China's top economic planner has proposed to set annual thermal coal prices for 2022 at between 550 yuan and 850 yuan ($86-$133) per tonne, and has told miners and power plants to maximise signing up next year's supplies via term contracts, Chinese media Caixin reported on Friday.

Locals told Mizzima that a man accused of passing information to the junta’s troops was shot dead in the hours after five youths were killed as the junta rammed into protesters in Kyimyindine township.

Australian shares closed slightly higher on Monday, as upbeat comments from Treasurer Josh Frydenberg on the economic prospects for 2022 offset some worries surrounding the Omicron coronavirus variant.

Peru's Marxist ruling Peru Libre party, which has clashed with President Pedro Castillo over policy, said on Monday it would however back the center-left leader against what it called a "coup" impeachment vote led by right-wing opposition parties.

Colombia's national police has deployed 100 criminal intelligence and investigation officers in a strategy to tackle environmental crimes in the Andean country, the government said on Monday, citing illegal mining and animal trafficking among the gravest threats.

London Metal Exchange (LME) nickel stocks have been falling relentlessly since April of this year.

Growth in Britain's construction industry hit a four-month high in November, as supply-chain difficulties appeared to have passed their peak and a rise in commercial property work offset a slowdown in house-building, a survey showed on Monday.

Ride-hailing giant Didi Global's move to withdraw from the New York stock exchange has put a spotlight on other U.S.-listed Chinese firms and whether more will jump ship to Hong Kong and elsewhere.

Gold prices were flat on Monday, as subdued U.S. bond yields helped offset pressure from growing prospects of the U.S. Federal Reserve tightening policy at a faster pace.

The United States on Monday imposed sanctions on a Democratic Republic of Congo national it accused of providing support to Israeli mining magnate Dan Gertler, part of a policy to target corruption in the central African country.