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Fed approves 0.75-point hike to take rates to highest since 2008 and hints at change in policy ahead
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 weeks, the central bank raised its short-term borrowing rate by 0.75 percentage point to a…
Breaking News | India | NewsIndian women protest for more protection in wake of rape-murder of junior doctor
Aug. 15 (UPI) — Tens of thousands of women in eastern India took to the streets overnight to protest the rape and murder of a female junior doctor working the night shift at a public hospital in Kolkata. The Reclaim the Night march on the eve of a holiday to mark 77 years of independence…
Breaking News | News | RussiaYevgeny Prigozhin: Wagner Group boss says he will pull fighters out of Bakhmut
The leader of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group says he will withdraw his troops from the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut on 10 May because of ammunition shortages. Yevgeny Prigozhin’s statement came after he posted a video of him walking among his dead fighters’ bodies, blaming top Russian defence officials. “Tens of thousands” had been killed and…
Iran, Saudi Arabia, UAE attend BRICS meeting in South Africa, as bloc mulls expansion
Iran, which has applied for observer status in BRICS, is finessing non-Western states to remedy its battered economy. Iran, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates foreign ministers attended the BRICS meeting in South Africa this week, as the bloc seeks to expand its membership to counterbalance Western powers. Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Saudi Foreign…
Trump says he will meet with Putin soon
President Donald Trump announced Friday he will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin soon, as the White House continues to press for a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine. Trump told reporters during a trilateral meeting with the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan he will meet with Putin “very shortly,” and said the details of…


