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Japan's Nikkei average rose 0.9 percent and the Australian benchmark shed 0.2 percent in early morning trade. Asian shares came under pressure on Tuesday after Wall Street peers finished weaker, hurt by fresh worries about the US-China trade war and were on track for their biggest October decline since the 2008 financial crisis. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan slid 0.1 percent, tracking falls in US stocks. The index has fallen more than 12 percent this month. Japan's Nikkei average rose 0.9 percent and the Australian benchmark shed 0.2 percent in early morning trade. Major U.S. indices fell steeply in volatile trade after a Bloomberg report that the United States is preparing to announce tariffs on all remaining Chinese imports by early December if talks next month between presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping falter. The CBOE Global Markets volatility index, known as Wall Street's "fear gauge", jumped to as hi...