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The Bank of England was set to hold its interest rate steady on Thursday despite slowing UK inflation, with higher price risks and Britain's looming election preventing a cut, according to analysts. While UK inflation slowed in May to a near three-year low of 2.0 percent, matching the central bank's target, analysts say the BoE is unlikely to cut rates ahead of the election to avoid appearing to take sides.
Hailed by Kim as “the most powerful treaty” in the history of Russia-North Korea relations, the pact marks a new era.
China should further relax data export rules, building on the recent easing of some curbs for global firms enacted by the city of Shanghai, senior executives from investment management firm Neuberger Berman and global bank Citi told a forum on Thursday. Foreign banks and asset managers have been lobbying the Chinese government to allow cross-border sharing of information after Beijing tightened control of data flows citing national security concerns. Last month, Shanghai launched a pilot project under which companies registered in the city's Lingang Area may transfer so-called "ordinary data" overseas without security assessments.
Amid waves of gentrification, James Jackson has been selling watermelon on a Bed-Stuy street corner for nearly 50 years.
Japan's tourism chief said Thursday its ambitious goal of luring 60 million foreign tourists a year -- more than double the current level -- is well within reach, despite surging overtourism concerns. Ichiro Takahashi, head of Japan's tourism agency, acknowledged the previously announced target of 60 million remains "tough", but stressed it is within the realm of possibility.
Russia resumed its aerial pounding of Ukraine’s power grid and Kyiv’s forces again targeted Russian oil facilities with cross-border drone strikes, officials said Thursday. With no major changes reported along the 1,000-kilometer (600-mile) front line, where a recent push by the Kremlin’s forces in eastern and northeastern Ukraine has made only incremental gains, both sides in the war have taken aim at distant infrastructure targets. In its seventh major attack on Ukrainian power plants since Moscow intensified energy infrastructure attacks three months ago, Russia fired nine missiles and 27 Shahed drones at energy facilities and critical infrastructure in central and eastern Ukraine, the Ukrainian air force said.
A Russian barrage damaged a Ukrainian power plant and several energy facilities overnight, officials said on Thursday, the latest in a series of strikes that have pushed its grid to the brink.- 'Crisis this winter' - DTEK's CEO Maxim Timchenko echoed those calls, and said the power plant struck early on Thursday had already been damaged in a previous attack.
The Philippines has accused China’s Coast Guard of launching a “brutal assault” with “bladed weapons” during a South China Sea clash earlier this week, a major escalation in a festering dispute that threatens to drag the United States into another global conflict.
The latest confrontation in the South China Sea has allegedly resulted in a Filipino navy serviceman losing a thumb and risks escalating the conflict.
Thailand hopes to become a member of the BRICS group of emerging economies at the organisation's next summit in Russia in October, a foreign ministry official said Thursday. The Southeast Asian nation submitted a formal request to join at a BRICS ministerial meeting a week ago, foreign ministry spokesperson Nikorndej Balankura said.
Asian markets were mixed Thursday as investors tried to gauge the outlook for US interest rates, while also keeping tabs on developments in France as it heads for crucial elections.On currency markets, the euro remained under pressure against the dollar owing to France's political uncertainty, while Switzerland's franc dipped against the greenback after the country's central bank cut interest rates for the second successive meeting.
In the heart of the Amazon rainforest, marine biologist Fernando Trujillo is a beacon of hope for the inhabitants of the iconic river.
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Hanoi on Wednesday, fresh from agreeing a new strategic partnership with North Korea, driven by Moscow’s need for weapons for its war in Ukraine.
BEIJING (Reuters) -The Chinese foreign ministry said on Thursday that the Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader, must "thoroughly correct" his political views as a condition for contact with China's central government to resume. Formal talks between China and the Dalai Lama, who fled to India in 1959 after a failed Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule, and his representatives have been stalled since 2010. "With regard to contact and negotiations between the central government of China and the 14th Dalai Lama, our policy has been consistent and clear," said Lin Jian, a spokesman at China's foreign ministry.
Threat comes just a day after Israel warned the powerful Lebanese militant group that the prospect of “all-out war” was “getting very close.”
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim on Thursday rejected the notion that China's dominance is to be feared, calling China a “true friend” at the end of Premier Li Qiang's visit to mark 50 years of diplomatic ties between their countries. While the leaders raised some contentious bilateral issues, Anwar said they discussed them as “equal partners, as trusted friends.”
China is pressing India to restart direct passenger flights after a four-year halt, but New Delhi is resisting as a border dispute continues to weigh on ties between the world's two most populous countries, officials said. India-China relations have been tense since the biggest military confrontation in decades on their disputed Himalayan border killed 20 Indian and at least four Chinese soldiers in June 2020. Since the clash, India has made it difficult for Chinese companies to invest, banned hundreds of popular apps and severed passenger routes, although direct cargo flights still operate between the Asian giants.
In some ways, Joe Biden and Donald Trump have similar goals heading into their debate in Atlanta next week. But they diverge when it comes to their preparations.
Esther Kangali felt a sharp pain while on her mother’s farm in eastern Kenya. Kangali was rushed to a nearby health center, but it lacked antivenom to treat the snake's bite. The 32-year-old mother of five knows it could have been avoided if clinics in areas where snakebites are common are stocked with antivenom.
The first named storm of the hurricane season is threatening the Gulf Coast of Mexico and Texas with flooding and tropical-storm-force winds.
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