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Asian traders tread uneasily as Syria strike fuels tensions

HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Asian investors moved cautiously Monday as last week’s US missile strikes on a Syrian airfield fuelled geopolitical tensions and led to sabre-rattling between Washington and Russia. There are fears about brewing tensions between the two powers, with the US suggesting there can be no peace while Moscow-backed Bashar al-Assad remains Syria’s president. Greg McKenna, chief market strategist at AxiTrader, said the attack showed the US was not pulling back from […]