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British government borrowing jumped by 31.7% in August compared with August 2023, taking borrowing to the highest level since treasury finances took a severe battering from COVID-19…
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Israeli warplanes overnight attacked Hezbollah targets in Lebanon. Photo courtesy of Israel Defense Force/Twitter Amid fears of an expanding war in the Middle East…
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Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez, pictured here with fellow Unitary Platform coalition figure Maria Corina Machado (L) after July's election, said he was forced to…
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The Bank of England Thursday held interest rates steady at 5% and unanimously voted to reduce British government bond purchases by $132.5 billion over the next year. The bank said…
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A massive crowd of protesters under umbrellas leave an anti-government rally in Hong Kong's Victoria Park on August 18, 2019. A Hong Kong man received 14 months in prison on…
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The European Parliament on Thursday adopted a non-binding resolution calling on member states to allow Ukraine to use Western weapons to strike deep into Russian territory. File…
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People at a coffee shop in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, watch Hezbollah Secretary-General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah deliver a televised speech Thursday condemning the attack…
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Icom, Inc. said Thursday production of the walkie-talkies that exploded in Lebanon ended over a decade ago. Photo by Franck Robichon/EPA-EFE Japan's Icom Inc. said…
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Israeli authorities said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (R) were among senior officials targeted in an Iranian assassination plot…
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Access to X was temporarily and inadvertently restored in Brazil amid a ban after the social media platform began using Cloudflare servers. File Photo by Ismael Mohamad/ UPI |…
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