People flee Lebanon at Masnaa border crossing with Syria, October 4, 2024. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir |
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- In US Federal Reserve officials' latest projections and recent public commentary, the overall economy is seen remaining in solid shape but the job market seems to be weakening and a subject of increasingly intense concern.
- US dock workers and port operators reached a tentative deal that will immediately end a crippling three-day strike that has shut down shipping on the East Coast and Gulf Coast, the two sides said.
- The European Commission's proposal to impose definitive tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles has obtained the necessary support from member states, the body said in a statement. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban warned of an "economic cold war" with China as the bloc's leaders prepared for the vote.
- Two years after market chaos jeopardized Britain's $2.7 trillion pensions industry, the hedging strategy that exacerbated the crisis is increasing in popularity - although providers say with less of the risk.
- One of the largest contract drug manufacturing plants in the US owned by Thermo Fisher over the past 10 years has repeatedly breached rules meant to ensure drugs are free of contamination, FDA documents show, including twice this year.
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- Monday October 7 marks one year since Hamas launched a deadly attack on Israel. As the conflict in Gaza nears its first anniversary, the teeters on the brink of a wider war.
- It's a packed week ahead in the markets with US inflation data, the start of Q3 earnings, a French budget and possibly a big rate cut from New Zealand.
- With just a month until the US presidential election, campaigning is kicking into high gear. Former President Barack Obama will campaign on behalf of Kamala Harris in Pittsburg on Thursday.
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Emails show early US concerns over Gaza offensive, risk of Israeli war crimes |
People survey the destruction at Gaza's Jabalia refugee camp, following Israeli strikes on the enclave, October 14, 2023. REUTERS/File Photo |
As Israel pounded northern Gaza with air strikes last October and ordered the evacuation of more than a million Palestinians from the area, a senior Pentagon official delivered a blunt warning to the White House. The mass evacuation would be a humanitarian disaster and could violate international law, leading to war crime charges against Israel, Dana Stroul, then the deputy assistant secretary of defense for the Middle East, wrote in an Oct. 13 email to senior aides to President Joe Biden. Stroul was relaying an assessment by the International Committee of the Red Cross that had left her "chilled to the bone." |
A drone view shows stranded boats over the sandbanks exposed due to drought at the Solimoes River, Brazil. September 30. REUTERS/Bruno Kelly |
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