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• • • Asian markets
      
      

      Asian shares rallied to their highest in a decade on Tuesday, while oil prices gave up some of their gains having previously surged to a more than two-year peak on an anti-corruption purge by Saudi Arabia’s crown prince.

    • GOLD
      
      
      Gold inched down early Tuesday after gaining nearly one percent in the previous session, easing as firmer Asian stocks marked a 10-year peak.
       
    • OIL
      
      Crude oil prices gained slightly in Asia on Tuesday with turmoil in the Middle East and top exporter Saudi Arabia in focus as well as weekly U.S. estimates of inventories.
       
    • INDIA
      

       India is in talks with Iran to begin interim operations at a port in southeast Iran, officials say, proceeding cautiously on developing the facility at a time when the Trump administration has laid an aggressive new approach toward Tehran.

       

    • UN
      
      The United Nations Security Council urged the Myanmar government on Monday to “ensure no further excessive use of military force in Rakhine state,” where violence has forced more than 600,000.

    • US
      
      A U.S. investigation into reports that at least 13 civilians were killed during an operation in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz last week found no evidence of any civilian casualties, a statement from the U.S. military in Kabul said on Tuesday.
       
    • TOKYO
      
      U.S. President Donald Trump will step directly into the shadow of the North Korean nuclear standoff on Tuesday on a visit to South Korea in which his words alone could risk further inflaming tensions with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
       U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said the mass shooting in a Texas church that left at least 26 people dead was due to a “mental health problem” and wasn’t “a guns situation.
       
    • US
      
      Chinese police will intensity a crackdown on financial crime to safeguard national security and fend off financial risks, the public security ministry said in an online statement on Tuesday.
      
      TEXAS
      
      A former U.S. serviceman who shot 26 worshipers to death during Sunday prayers in Texas was embroiled in a domestic dispute with his in-laws and had sent threatening text messages to his wife’s mother before the massacre