Day: October 16, 2024

British inflation dropped sharply and key price gauges watched by the Bank of England also fell, bolstering bets on an interest rate cut next month and helpi…

1. The United States has told Israel it must take steps in the next month to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza or face potential restrictions on U.S. military aid, U.S. officials said, in the strongest such warning since Israel’s war with Hamas began a year ago.

2. A Georgia judge on Tuesday temporarily halted a new rule requiring poll workers to hand count ballots in the Nov. 5 election, in a defeat for Donald Trump, whose Republican allies pushed the change after he lost the battleground state in 2020.

3. An Israeli air strike on Wednesday on the municipal building in Nabatieh, a major town in southern Lebanon, which serves as a provincial capital, killed the mayor Ahmed Kahil and at least five others, two security sources said.

4. Chinese President Xi Jinping said a successful partnership between China and the United States is an opportunity for the two countries to be enablers for each other’s development rather than an obstacle, according to state media on Wednesday.

5. North Korean state media said on Wednesday around 1.4 million young people had applied to join or return to the army this week, blaming Seoul for a provocative drone incursion that had brought the “tense situation to the brink of war”.

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