Fed approves 0.75-point hike to take rates to highest since 2008 and hints at change in policy ahead

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The Federal Reserve on Wednesday approved a fourth consecutive three-quarter point interest rate increase and signaled a potential change in how it will approach monetary policy to bring down inflation. In a well-telegraphed move that markets had been expecting for … Read More

Iowa egg facility reports bird flu outbreak that will require killing 1.1 million hens

DES MOINES, Iowa — Wright County, Iowa, reported its first bird flu case this year, hitting a commercial egg-laying facility that will result in 1.1 million chickens being destroyed to contain the highly contagious and deadly virus, the Iowa Department … Read More

Illegal migrants wave Venezuelan flag after crossing US southern border, attack Border Patrol agents

In Del Rio Sector alone, there have been over 50 large groups of more than 100 migrants since Oct. 1 A massive group of illegal migrants Monday crossed into the U.S. waving a large Venezuelan flag and, according to Customs … Read More

Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Wins Presidential Election, Beating Jair Bolsonaro

The leftist former president’s win marks an extraordinary comeback for a man who was in jail for corruption three years ago SÃO PAULO—Brazil’s leftist former president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva beat conservative incumbent Jair Bolsonaro in the country’s closest … Read More

North Korea fires ballistic missiles as US sounds off ‘end of regime’ warning over nuclear programme

North Korea has fired two short-range ballistic missiles towards the sea, South Korea’s military has said. In a statement it said two launches had been detected from the North’s eastern coastal Tongchon area around mid-day on Friday. Tongchon is about … Read More

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