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June 12, 2024 5:35 PM

Fed expected to hold rates steady, project fewer cuts in 2024

The Federal Reserve is expected to leave interest rates unchanged on Wednesday, with new economic projections from the U.S. central bank's policymakers likely to show fewer rate cuts this year and a delayed start to monetary policy easing. Fed offic...

June 12, 2024 4:07 PM

Hezbollah fires big rocket salvos at Israel after senior commander killed

Lebanon's Hezbollah fired big barrages of rockets at Israel on Wednesday in retaliation for an Israeli strike which killed a senior Hezbollah field commander, sharply escalating tensions in the conflict across the Lebanese-Israeli border. The Iran-b...

June 12, 2024 5:24 PM

Fire in Kuwaiti building housing workers kills 41, deputy PM says

A fire broke out in a building housing workers in the city of Mangaf in southern Kuwait early on Wednesday, claiming the lives of at least 41 people, the country's Deputy Prime Minister Sheikh Fahad Yusuf Saud Al-Sabah said during a visit to the site...

June 12, 2024 11:11 AM

Hamas says its response to Gaza ceasefire plan ‘opens up a wide pathway’

Hamas on Wednesday said its "positive" response to a U.S. ceasefire plan for the eight-month-old war in the Gaza Strip opened a "wide pathway" to reach an agreement, but the outlook was uncertain as neither the Palestinian group nor Israel publicly...

June 12, 2024 9:42 AM

China hit by searing temperatures, India in the middle of a prolonged heat wave

Temperatures are hitting record highs in parts of north and central China this week, while a severe drought in the east is also threatening crops, as countries across Asia brace themselves for another summer of extreme weather. China is facing sever...

June 12, 2024 2:27 AM

Congo swears in new government after months of delay

The Democratic Republic of Congo swore in Judith Suminwa Tuluka as prime minister on Tuesday (June 11), along with her downsized 54-member cabinet, ending over six months of delays following President Felix Tshisekedi's re-election and his allies' pa...

June 12, 2024 3:11 AM

Tragic boat sinking off Yemen coast claims at least 49 lives

At least 49 people lost their lives and 140 went missing after a boat carrying refugees and migrants from the Horn of Africa to Yemen sank, according to Al Jazeera, citing the United Nations' International Organization for Migration (IOM). The vesse...

June 11, 2024 7:38 PM

What are tactical nuclear weapons and why is Russia holding drills?

Russia and its ally Belarus are carrying out exercises to practise the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons. What are these weapons, how might they be used and what do we know about the drills? WHAT ARE TACTICAL NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND HOW POWERFUL A...

June 11, 2024 6:22 PM

Russia begins second stage of tactical nuclear weapon drills with Belarus

Russia said on Tuesday its troops had started the second stage of drills to practise the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons alongside Belarusian troops after what Moscow said were threats from Western powers. Russia says the United States and it...

June 11, 2024 4:56 PM

Malawi vice president Saulos Klaus Chilima killed in plane crash

Malawi's Vice President Saulos Klaus Chilima and nine others on board a military aircraft that went missing on Monday were killed in a plane crash, President Lazarus Chakwera said on Tuesday. The aircraft carrying Chilima, 51, left the c...

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